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- ↑ Virginia Biographical Encyclopedia, available at ancestry.com
- ↑ Isaac, Rhys (2004) Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation, pp. xvii-xviii. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-518908-6.
- ↑ Tyler Carlton, Florence (1982). A Genealogy of the Known Descendants of Robert Carter of Corotoman. Irvington: Foundation for Christ Church Inc. pp. 371–427. LCCN 83081512.
- ↑ Carlton, pp. 372, 379, 380
- ↑ Isaac pp. 60, 322
- ↑ Isaac, pp. 181, 270-271
- ↑ Isaac p. xxiv
- ↑ Isaac, pp. 38-45
- ↑ Isaac, pp. 179-180 details a whipping by the grandfather because the eight year old told his mother he didn't care if she tried to whip him and which her father-in-law considered a personal insult, and p. 184 the grandfather's attempt at solicitude when the willful youngster was 13 years old.
- ↑ Isaac, pp. 267-268, 298-299
- ↑ Isaac, pp. 18-20, 178, 200
- ↑ Robert R. Harper, Richmond County, Virginia, 1692-1992: A Tricentennial Portrait (Alexandria, Virginia, O'Donnell Publications p. 72
- ↑ Isaac, p. 176
- ↑ Gwenda Morgan (1989). The Hegemony of the Law: Richmond County, Virginia, 1692-1776. Garland Publishing. p. 79. ISBN 9780824061920. (also noting on pp. 81 and 197 that R.W. Carter was thrice prosecuted for swearing, as was his father once and the county's richest man, John Tayloe Sr. twice.)
- ↑ Morgan also notes p. 84 that Lee refused to accept the office of county lieutenant in 1781 and never actually sat with the Richmond County court.
- ↑ Cynthia Miller Leonard, The Virginia General Assembly 1619-1978 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1978) pp. 100, 104, 106, 110, 113, 115, 118, 135, 142, 147
- ↑ Morgan, pp. 63-64
- ↑ Isaacs pp. 300-301
- ↑ Netti Schriener-Yantis and Florene Speakman Love, The 1787 Census of Virginia (Springfield, Virginia: Genealogical Books in Print 1987) p. 1283.
- ↑ Isaac, pp. 60, 322
- ↑ "A Guide to the Papers of the Carter and Wellford Family of Sabine Hall 1650-1918 Carter and Wellford Family of Sabine Hall, Papers 1959, 1959-a, 1959-c".
- ↑ "Papers of the Carter and Wellford family of Sabine Hall, 1650 (1736-1874) 1936".
- ↑ William H. Gaines, Jr., Biographical Register of Members of the Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1969) pp. 25-26