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Sources consulted for the biography of:Emanuel Driggus ( – )
Primary Sources
- Henry R. McIlwaine, ed., Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 2d ed. (1979), 467
- First known mention in Virginia records in Northampton Co. Deeds, Wills, Etc., 3 (1645–1651), folios 82–83.
- Northampton Co. Deeds, Wills, Etc., 4 (1651–1654), folios 28 (first quotation), 82.
- Northampton Co. Deeds, Wills, Etc., 7 (1655–1668), folios 74, 78.
- Northampton Co. Deeds, Wills, Etc., [8] (1655–1668), folios 15, 17.
- Northampton Co. Deeds and Wills (1657–1666), folios 67 (second quotation), 69, 121
- Northampton Co. Order Book, 9 (1664–1674), folios 123, 161
- Northampton Co. Deeds, Etc. (1668–1680), 59–60.
- Northampton Co. Order Book, 10 (1674–1679), 86.
- Last known mention in Virginia records in Northampton Co. Order Book and Wills, 12 (1683–1689), 150, 151.
Secondary Sources
- J. Douglas Deal, Race and Class in Colonial Virginia: Indians, Englishmen, and Africans on the Eastern Shore During the Seventeenth Century (1993), esp. 279–316.
- Paul Heinegg, Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia, 3d ed. (1997), 272–273
- Rebecca Anne Goetz, The Baptism of Early Virginia: How Christianity Created Race (2012).
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