The Dictionary of Virginia Biography is published online through a partnership with Encyclopedia Virginia. Biographies that do not also appear in the three print volumes (surnames Aaroe�Daniels) link to lists of sources consulted.
Sources consulted for the biography of:Jesse Dungey (ca. 1820–1884)
Primary Sources
- United States Census Schedules, King William County, 1850 (age thirty-one on Nov. 17,), 1860 (age thirty-eight on June 18), 1870 (age fifty-one on Aug. 16), and 1880 (age sixty on June 30; also several autograph signatures as census enumerator), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Application (no. 3402) with birthplace, age "51 abt." on Aug. 4, 1871, and autograph signature, Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records, Record Group 101, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.
- Land Tax Returns and Personal Property Tax Returns, King William County, both Record Group 48, Library of Virginia
- Third General Report of the Commissioners of Claims, Submitted December 8, 1873, 43d Congress, 1st sess., House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 23, serial 1617, p. 32.
- Quotation in G. P. Goodyear to Paul R. Hambick, October 31, 1867, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia, 1865–1869, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1048, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- G. P. Goodyear to Paul R. Hambick, September 8, 1867 and February 28, 1868; copy of King William County deed conveying land for church and school (April 28, 1868); and Sub-Assistant Commissioner's Monthly Report on Education of Freedmen and Refugees, September 1868, all in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, 1865–1872, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Death Register, King William County (age sixty-four), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Estate records in King William Co. Deed Book, 6:384–387, Library of Virginia.
- Estate and family Information in King William County Chancery Causes, Robert T. Dungey, etc. v. Mrs. Mary Dungey etc., 1888-002, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
House of Delegates
- Election results in Election Record no. 4 (1871), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 9, 1871; November 14, 1871
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1871–72 (1872), esp. 33, 34, 69–70, 123–124, 386–390.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 12–13 (with names of parents, estimated birth in 1812, surname spelled Dungee, and middle initial W.)
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