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Sources consulted for the biography of:Edward Digges (1621–1675)
Primary Sources
- baptism date in Chilham Parish Register, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Kent, England
- Virginia Colonial Land Office Patents, Book 2:287 (probably first presence in Virginia by 1650), 316 and Book 3:16, 32, Record Group 4, Library of Virginia
- Digges's correspondence with Oliver Cromwell in Rawlinson Manuscripts, A.27 (June 29, 1655) and A.261 (October 8, 1655), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England
- General Assembly's December 15, 1656 instructions to Digges in Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 8 (Virginia Records Manuscripts), Vol. 6:215, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- Samuel Hartlib, The Reformed Virginian Silk-Worm (1655), 26, 27–28, 38
- Henry R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds., Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1659/60–1693 (1914), 57 (second quotation)
- William Hand Browne, ed., Archives of Maryland, 3 (1885): 332–335, 503–512
- numerous references to Digges in:
- Warren M. Billings, with Maria Kimberly, eds., The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605–1677 (2007)
- William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 . . . (1809–1823), including election to Council and first quotation on 1:388 and election as governor on 1:408
- Henry R. McIlwaine, ed., Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 2d ed. (1979)
- will in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Lloyd 73, National Archives, Kew, England
- death date in his fifty-fifth year on gravestone printed in J. L. Hall, "Ancient Epitaphs and Inscriptions, in York and James City Counties, Virginia," Proceedings of the Virginia Historical Society, 1891 (1892), 107
Secondary Sources
- biography and family relationships in John Frederick Dorman, ed., Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607–1624/5, 4th ed. (2004– ), 1:821–824
- Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (2004), 77
- Joseph Foster, Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521–1889 (1889), 213
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