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- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) p. 8
- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1, p. 215
- 1 2 3 4 John Frederick Dorman, Adventures of Purse and Person: Virginia: 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 2004; 4th edition) vol. 1, p. 713
- ↑ Martha W. McCartney, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company 2007 ISBN 978-0-8063-1774-8) pp. 214-215
- ↑ McCartney, pp. 214-215
- ↑ Martha W. McCartney, Jamestown People to 1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Press ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1) p. 121
- ↑ McCartney p. 121
- ↑ Marianne E. Julienne and Sara B. Bears, "Cole, William (1638-1684)" in Dictionary of Virginia Biography (Richmond: Library of Virginia 2006) pp.355-356, also available at https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/cole-william-1638-or-1639-1694/
- ↑ Adventures of Purse and Person : Virginia: 1607-1624/5 (4th Ed.) vol. 1, p. 714n