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- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Cyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1 p. 254
- 1 2 3 4 5 John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. (4th Ed. 2004) vol. 2, p. 299
- ↑ Compare Dorman pp. 303 and 305, which deduces that the John Harwood whose estate was admitted to probate in 1790 was this man's grandson through his son Matthew.
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978 pp. 66, 67, 75
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