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- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Cyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1 p. 254
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004) vol. 2, p. 304
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619=1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 80, 82, 85, 87, 90, 93, 96, 98, 101, 104, 107, 111, 113, 116, 118, 120, 123
- ↑ Netti Schreiner-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield: Genealogical Books in Print) pp. 310, 951, 1047
- ↑ Schreiner-Yantis and Speakman Love p. 1075