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- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Dictionary of Virginia Biography, vol.1, p. 2073
- ↑ John H. Gwathmey, Twelve Virginia Counties where the Western Migration Began (Richmond: The Dietz Press, 1937) p. 58
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond, Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 75, 77
- ↑ Gwathmey, p. 47