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- 1 2 McCartney, Martha W. (2012). Jamestown people to 1800 : landowners, public officials, minorities, and native leaders. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co. pp. 231–232. ISBN 978-0-8063-1872-1. OCLC 812189309.
- ↑ Knight, Thomas Daniel (2015). "The Yorkshire Family of Edmund Jenings and Peter Jenings of Virginia". The American Genealogist. 87 (3): 116.
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard pp. 36, 38
- ↑ Leonard p. xx