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Sources consulted for the biography of:Elizabeth Key (fl. 1655–1660)
Primary Sources
- Judicial records printed in Warren M. Billings, ed., The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century: A Documentary History of Virginia, 1606–1700, rev. ed. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 195–199.
- Northumberland County Record Book (1652–1658), including first quotation in John Mottrom estate inventory, 4 July 1655, on unnumbered page, "twenty five yeares of age or thereabouts" in 1656 deposition by Alice Larrett on p. 67, second and third quotations in March 1656 General Assembly resolutions and report of committee of burgesses copied on p. 85, and banns of William Grinsted and Elizabeth Key on p. 85.
- Northumberland County Order Book (1652–1665), fols. 40, 46, 49.
- Final known mention of Elizabeth Grinsted in 1 October 1660 deposition ("aged about 28 yeares"), Northumberland Co. Record Book (1658–1666), p. 62.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Elizabeth Spencer James Pardoe, "Four Outstanding Women," Northern Neck of Virginia Historical Magazine 32 (1982): 3653–3660.
- Warren M. Billings, "The Cases of Fernando and Elizabeth Key: A Note on the Status of Blacks in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly, 3d ser., 30 (1973): 467–474.
- Warren M. Billings, "The Law of Servants and Slaves in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 99 (1991): 56–57.
- Taunya Lovell Banks, "Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key's Freedom Suit—Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventeenth Century Colonial Virginia," Akron Law Review 41 (2008):799–837.
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