Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Sources consulted for the biography of:

Hugh Drysdale

Primary Sources
  • Marriage in Willoughby A. Littledale, ed., The Registers of St. Bene't and St. Peter, Paul's Wharf, London, vol. 2, Marriages, St. Benet, 1619 to 1730 (1910), 101.

  • Dysdale's administration documented in:

    • Henry R. McIlwaine, Wilmer L. Hall, and Benjamin J. Hillman, eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1925–1966), vol. 4.
    • Henry R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds., Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1712–1726 (1912).

  • Drysdale's letters to:

    • Board of Trade, Colonial Office Papers 5/1319, 5/1320, Public Record Office, National Archives, Kew, England;
    • Secretary of State, Colonial Office Papers 5/1343, Public Record Office, National Archives, Kew, England;
    • Bishop of London, Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England;
    • Compiled in Anthony Joseph Gonzales, ed., "The Official Correspondence of Lieutenant Governor Hugh Drysdale, 1722–1726" (M.A. thesis, University of Virginia, 1974).

  • First and second quotations in Robert Carter to unknown correspondent, July 2, 1723, Robert Carter Letter Book, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.

  • Third quotation in John Custis to James Blair, ca. Aug. 1726, in Josephine Little Zuppan, ed., The Letterbook of John Custis IV of Williamsburg, 1717–1742 (2005), 87.

  • Will proved on Aug. 15, 1726, but not transcribed in York Co. Orders, Wills, Etc., 16:402, recorded in full in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Plymouth 255, Registered Wills, Principal Probate Registry, London, England, and printed in Virginia Genealogist 34 (1990): 26–27.

  • Death date in Robert Carter to secretary of state, 25 July 1726, Colonial Office Papers 5/1337, fol. 90, and to Board of Trade, 25 July 1726, Colonial Office Papers 5/1320, fol. 82, both in Public Record Office, National Archives, Kew, England (also available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia).


Secondary Sources
  • George Dames Burtchaell and Thomas Ulick Sadleir, comps., Alumni Dublinenses , new ed. (1935), 247 (age sixteen on 8 May 1688).

  • Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses (1891–1892), 1:427 (age nineteen on 6 Feb. 1692).

  • Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661–1714 (1892–1904), 3:373, 4:255, 256, 5:239, 6:105, 130.

  • Madeleine Curcio Kaduboski, "The Administration of Lieutenant-Governor Hugh Drysdale, 1722–1726" (M.A. thesis, College of William and Mary, 1967).