Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Primary Sources 
 

• John de Sequeyra, "A True State of the Small Pox, Febry 22d, 1747/8," Virginia Miscellany, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

• John de Sequeyra, "Notes on Diseases of Virginia" (1745–1781), "Diseases of Children," "Diseases of Women," and "Diseases of Both Sexes," all in Galt Papers (1745–1892), Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg.

• John de Sequerya to Benjamin Harrison, Jan. 15, 1784, July 29, 1784, Benjamin Harrison Executive Papers, Record Group 3, Library of Virginia.

• John de Sequeryra's petitions to the General Assembly for the salary due him, Nov. 21, 1778, Oct. 26, 1779, Nov. 10, 1780, Legislative Petitions, Williamsburg, Record Group 78, Library of Virginia.

, Secondary Sources 
 

• Robert Shosteck, "Notes on an Early Virginia Physician," American Jewish Archives 23 (1971): 198–212, quoting matriculation record giving age as twenty-four on 11 Sept. 1736.

• William Quentin Maxwell, ed., "A True State of the Smallpox in Williamsburg, February 22, 1748," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 63 (1955): 269–274.

• Harold B. Gill, Jr., The Apothecary in Colonial Virginia (1972), including "Dr. Sequeyra's Account of Virginia Diseases, 1745–1781," (pp. 95–115).

• Harold B. Gill, Jr., "Dr. De Sequeyra's 'Diseases of Virginia,'" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 295–298.

, Obituaries 
 

• Richmond Virginia Gazette, and General Advertiser, Mar. 18, 1795 (quotation and death notice "in the 83d year of his age" on "30th ult.").

• Virginia Gazette and Richmond and Manchester Advertiser, Mar. 19, 1795 (death notice).