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Sources consulted for the biography of:Thomas Dawson (1715–1760)
Primary Sources
- Birth month and year in John Blair to bishop of London, July 25 1752, General Correspondence: Continental Colonies, Vol. 13, in Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- Marriage date in "Diary of John Blair," William and Mary Quarterly, 1st ser., 7 (1899): 152
- Dawson letters in:
- William Dawson Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington. D.C.
- General Correspondence: Continental Colonies, Vol. 13, in Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- "President Thomas Dawson," William and Mary Quarterly, 1st ser., 11 (1902): 92–93
- Henry R. McIlwaine, Wilmer L. Hall, and Benjamin J. Hillman, eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1925–1966), 5:423, 6:28, 38
- Journal of President and Masters of the College of William and Mary, University Archives, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
- Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, November 7, 1754
- William Stevens Perry, ed., Papers Relating to the History of the Church in Virginia, A.D. 1650–1776 (1870)
Secondary Sources
- Daniel Mack Hockman, "The Dawson Brothers and the Virginia Commissariat, 1743–1760" (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975)
- George MacLaren Brydon, Virginia's Mother Church and the Political Conditions under Which It Grew, vol. 2 (1952)
- J. E. Morpurgo, Their Majesties' Royall Colledge: William and Mary in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1976)
- Susan H. Godson et al., The College of William and Mary: A History, Volume 1, 1693–1888 (1993)
Obituaries
- Death date in Annapolis Maryland Gazette, 8 Jan. 1761
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