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Sources consulted for the biography of:Sir John Harvey (ca. 1581 or 1582–by 1650)
Primary Sources
- Harvey gave his age as 54 in a 9 May 1636 deposition, Public Record Office, High Court of Admiralty 13/52, fols. 388–389, National Archives, Kew, England
- Harvey's will dated September 15, 1646, and proved July 16, 1650, Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Pembroke 113, National Archives, Kew, England
- Records of Harvey's administration are printed or abstracted in:
- Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vols. 1, 7–9, 11–13
- William Noel Sainsbury, ed., Calendar of State Papers Colonial Series, 1574–1660 (1860)
- Contemporary evaluations that derive from Harvey's own attitudes and words are in:
- Thomas Yong to Sir Tobias Mathew, 13 July 1634, Acc. 30966, Library of Virginia, printed in Plowden Charles Jennett Weston, ed., Documents Connected with the History of South Carolina (London, 1856), 29–44
- Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 4th ser., 9 (1871): 81–ff
- Clayton Colman Hall, ed., Original Narratives of Early American History: Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633–1684 (1910)
- George Donne, "Virginia Reviewed," British Library, Harleian Manuscripts, 7021, printed in part and with biographical introduction in T. H. Breen, ed., "George Donne's 'Virginia Reviewed': A 1638 Plan to Reform Colonial Society," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 30 (1973): 449–466
Secondary Sources
- Richard Ernest Jenkins, "The First Administration of Sir John Harvey, Royal Governor of Virginia, 1630–1635" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1967)
- J. Mills Thornton, "The Thrusting Out of Governor Harvey: A Seventeenth-Century Rebellion," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 76 (1978): 11–26
- Jon Kukla, Political Institutions in Virginia, 1619–1660 (1989), esp. 81–96
- Philip Levy, "A New Look at an Old Wall: Indians, Englishmen, Landscape, and the 1634 Palisade at Middle Plantation," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 112 (2004): 226–265
- Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (2004)
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