Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

Primary Sources 
 

• United States Census Schedules, Powhatan Co., 1870 (age twenty-nine), 1880 (age forty-six), 1900 (born January 1839, age sixty-one), 1910 (age seventy-two); Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• Powhatan Co. Deed Books 24:492–493, 25:147–148, 279–280 (second quotation on 280), 28:14–15, 189–190, 29:128–129, 230, 372, 30:138–139, 31:67–68.

• Death Certificate (with date of death at age "about 80"), Powhatan County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

• Brief biography (with name mistakenly entered as Neverson Lee) in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 25.

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Secondary Sources 
 

• Richmond Daily Dispatch, Oct. 15, 1879 (identified as "Jefferson Lewis"); Nov. 5, 1879 ("alias Jefferson Lewis"); Nov. 7, 1879; Nov. 25, 1879; Dec. 2, 1879.

• Richmond Daily Whig, March 18, 1881 ("M. Lewis").

• Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 14 (1879), 17 (1881), Record Group 13, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1879–1880 sess.), 30, 88–89, 218, 242, 404.

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1881–1882 sess.), 30–31, 95, 263, 379.

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1882 extra sess.), 91 (first quotation).