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- ↑ Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography (1915) vol. 1, p. 101-102
- ↑ Martha W. McCartney, Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company 2007 ISBN 978-0-8063-1774-8) pp. 314-315
- ↑ John Frederick Dorman, Adventures of Purse and Person: Virginia: 1607-1624/5 (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 2004; 4th edition) vol. 3, pp. 24-25
- ↑ McCartney p. 314
- ↑ Dorman p. 216
- ↑ Cassandra Newby-Alexander, The Arrival of the First Africans to English North America, Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 127 no. 3, pp. 189, 192
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 5, 6
- ↑ Leonard p. xxi
- ↑ McCartney pp. 314-315