Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

• Birth date of January 1862 in United States Census Schedules, Coahoma County, Miss., 1900, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Some Davis correspondence in Negro Organization Society Papers, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia.
• Negro Organization Society, Hand Book and Annual (1936), 7–8.
• Annual of the Negro Organization Society (1937), 7.

• Arthur B. Caldwell, ed., History of the American Negro, vol. 5: Virginia Edition (1921), 286–289 (with marriage date and portrait on 287).
• Richard R. Wright, comp., Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1916), 80–81 (with variant birth year of 1864)
• Richard R. Wright, comp., Encyclopaedia of the African Methodist Episcopal Church (1947), 86–87 (with birth date of January 19, 1862)

• Southern Workman 50 (Nov. 1921): 489, and 55 (Jan. 1926): 6
• Norfolk Journal and Guide, November 23, 1929; November 22, 1930; November, 21, 1931; November 12, 1932; November 21, 1942

• Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, June 22, 1946
• Norfolk Journal and Guide, June 29, 1946

• Noah Davis, A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, Written by Himself, at the Age of Fifty-four (1859), with frontispiece portrait and month and year of birth on p. 9.
• United States Census Schedules, Baltimore City, Md., 1860 (listed as Davies, with wife's name and with five children age seven and under born in Maryland), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• George F. Adams, A Brief Sketch of the Life and Character of the Late William Crane, of Baltimore (1868), 26–29.

• George F. Adams, History of Baptist Churches in Maryland Connected with the Maryland Baptist Union Association (1885), 101, 132–133.
• A. Briscoe Koger, Negro Baptists of Maryland (1946), 4, 8, 34–35, 42, 59, 65–66.
• Michael Patrick Williams, "The Black Evangelical Ministry in the Antebellum Border States: Profiles of Elders John Berry Meachum and Noah Davis," Foundations 21 (1978): 225–241.

• New-York Commercial Advertiser, December 24, 1856
• Baltimore Sun, July 17, 1858
• Springfield [Mass.] Daily Republican, August 11, 1860
• African Repository 39 (1863): 315

• Baltimore Sun, April 9, 1867

• Death date and age ninety-two at death in Davis Family Bible Record, Accession 52603, Library of Virginia.
• Age 54 on September 6, 1870 in United States Census Schedules, Elizabeth City County, 1870; age 63 on June 25, 1880 in United States Census Schedules, Elizabeth City County, 1880; and birth date of May 1814 in United States Census Schedules, Elizabeth City County, 1900, all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Letters discussing Davis in American Missionary 5 (1861): 246–249 (first quotation on 249, second quotation on 248).
• Descendants' family records and personal papers in Davis Family Papers (1876–2007) in David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
• Elizabeth City County Will Book, 3:436–437, Library of Virginia.

• Arthur P. Davis (grandson), "William Roscoe Davis and His Descendants," Negro History Bulletin 13 (1950): 75–89, 95, with birth date about 1812 and death date three days before author's birth on November 21, 1904.
• Robert Francis Engs, Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861–1890 (1979).
• Joe M. Richardson, Christian Reconstruction: The American Missionary Association and Southern Blacks, 1861–1890 (1986), 59, 95–96.

• Likely reference to suit for wife's freedom in "The Contrabands at Fortress Monroe," Atlantic Monthly 8 (1861): 637
• American Missionary 5 (1862): 83
• Hampton True Southerner, November 24, 1865; December 21, 1865; January 4, 1866; February 8, 1866

• Birth month and year in John Blair to bishop of London, July 25 1752, General Correspondence: Continental Colonies, Vol. 13, in Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• Marriage date in "Diary of John Blair," William and Mary Quarterly, 1st ser., 7 (1899): 152
• Dawson letters in:
• William Dawson Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington. D.C.
• General Correspondence: Continental Colonies, Vol. 13, in Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• "President Thomas Dawson," William and Mary Quarterly, 1st ser., 11 (1902): 92–93
• Henry R. McIlwaine, Wilmer L. Hall, and Benjamin J. Hillman, eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1925–1966), 5:423, 6:28, 38
• Journal of President and Masters of the College of William and Mary, University Archives, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, November 7, 1754
• William Stevens Perry, ed., Papers Relating to the History of the Church in Virginia, A.D. 1650–1776 (1870)

• Daniel Mack Hockman, "The Dawson Brothers and the Virginia Commissariat, 1743–1760" (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975)
• George MacLaren Brydon, Virginia's Mother Church and the Political Conditions under Which It Grew, vol. 2 (1952)
• J. E. Morpurgo, Their Majesties' Royall Colledge: William and Mary in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1976)
• Susan H. Godson et al., The College of William and Mary: A History, Volume 1, 1693–1888 (1993)

• Death date in Annapolis Maryland Gazette, 8 Jan. 1761

• Biography in Alexander Brown, "Sir Thomas West, Third Lord De La Warr," Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries 9 (1883): 18–30
• Biography in Brown, ed., The Genesis of the United States . . . (1897), 2:1048–1049 (with variant birth date of July 9, 1577)
• birth year derived from Joseph Foster, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1500–1714 . . . (1891–1892), 4:103 (age fifteen on March 9, 1592)
• marriage date from parish register of Saint Dunstan's in the West, London, in Evelyn Philip Shirley, Stemmata Shirleiana; or the Annals of the Shirley Family . . . , 2d ed., rev. (1873), 258
• death date of July 7, 1618, in Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., Records of the Virginia Company of London (1906–1935), 3:419–420
• variant death date of June 7, 1618 in Cole's Escheats, Thomas Cole Collections, vol. 5, Harley 760, p. 421, British Library, London, England
• burial place in Peter Wilson Coldham, ed., "The Voyage of the Neptune to Virginia, 1618–1619, and the Disposition of Its Cargo," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 87 (1979): 32

• copies of commission and instructions in Papers Relating to the Foundation of Virginia, Add MS 21993, fols. 183–189, British Library, London, England
• copies of commission and instructions in Ashmolean MSS 1147, fols. 191–206, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
• numerous references in Susan Myra Kingsbury, ed., Records of the Virginia Company of London (1906–1935), including instructions on 3:24–29
• De La Warr et al. to company, July 7, 1610, Relation of a Voyage to Virginia, Harleian MSS 7009, fols. 58–61, British Library, London, England
• De La Warr to earl of Salisbury, n.d., received September 1610, Public Record Office, Colonial Office Papers 1/1, fol. 85a, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• De La Warr to earl of Salisbury, June 22, 1611, Public Record Office, State Paper Office 14/64 no. 53, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• John Pory to Sir Dudley Carleton, October 25, 1618, Public Record Office, State Paper Office 14/103/46 (quotation), National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
• Mark Nicholls, ed., "George Percy's 'Trewe Relacyon': A Primary Source for the Jamestown Settlement," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 113 (2005): 251–257

• J. Frederick Fausz, "An 'Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides': England's First Indian War, 1609–1614," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 98 (1990): 3–56

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• Columbia, S.C., State, April 11, 1892
• Southern Workman 25 (1896): 56–57
• New York Evening Post, January 11, 1905
• Washington Evening Star, February 5, 1907
• Peabody Newspaper Clipping File (microfiche ed.), item 127, nos. 1–8, William R. and Norma B. Harvey Library, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia

• Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 6, 1913
• Manassas Journal, May 9, 1913
• memorial in Manassas Journal, May 10, 1918

• Autobiography in A Battleground School: A Colored Woman's Work in Uplifting Negro Boys and Girls; The Story of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth (n.d. but 1905 or later), 5–11
• Age 18 on June 16 and first name Jane in Census, Prince William Co., 1870, United States Census Schedules, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Manassas Industrial School documents in General Education Board Archives, ser. 1: Appropriations, subseries 1: The Early Southern Program, Virginia, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York
• Birth date, birthplace, and middle name provided by sister on Death Certificate, Prince William Co., Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia

• Stephen Johnson Lewis, Undaunted Faith: The Life Story of Jennie Dean, Missionary, Teacher, Crusader, Builder, Founder of the Manassas Industrial School (1994 ed.)
• Angel David Nieves, "'We Gave Our Hearts and Lives To It': African-American Women Reformers, Industrial Education, and the Monuments of Nation-Building in the Post-Reconstruction South, 1877–1938" (Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 2001), 238–278, 291–309

• Commonwealth 6 (Aug. 1939): 19
• Records of Western State Hospital, Series E, DeJarnette Personal Files, Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services, Record Group 38, Library of Virginia (finding aid available online)
• DeJarnette's numerous publications include:

• "Some Advances in Modern Medicine, and the Benefits of Organized Effort," Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly 9 (1905): 492–494
• "Eugenics in Relation to the Insane, the Epileptic, the Feeble-Minded and Race Blending," Virginia Medical Monthly 52 (1925): 290–292
• "Eugenic Sterilization in Virginia," Virginia Medical Monthly 57 (1931): 678–680 (first quotation on 680)

• Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 2001 Regular Session (2001), 2:1678 (third quotation)

• Lyon Gardiner Tyler, ed., Men of Mark in Virginia (1906–1909), 4:102–103
• Paul A. Lombardo, "Eugenic Sterilization in Virginia: Aubrey Strode and the Case of Buck v. Bell" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1982), 110–115, 193–195, 242–246
• Gregory Michael Dorr, "Defective or Disabled? Race, Medicine, and Eugenics in Progressive Era Virginia and Alabama," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 5 (2006): 359–392

• Staunton Spectator and Vindicator, February 16, 1906
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 16, 1934 (second quotation); September 10, 1943
• Richmond News Leader, January 23, 1947
• Staunton News-Leader, July 22, 1939
• Staunton Evening Leader, July 22, 1939

• Staunton Evening Leader, September 3, 1957; September 4, 1957 (editorial tribute)
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, September 4, 1957; September 9, 1957 (editorial tribute)
• Richmond News Leader, September 4, 1957
• Virginia Medical Monthly 84 (1957): 547
• funeral notice in Staunton News-Leader, September 6, 1957

Primary Sources 
 

• Birth date and variant death date of May 31, 1926, on monument erected in Delaney's memory at Chester Grove Baptist Church, Amelia County.
• Birth year and death date of May 30, 1926, on Death Certificate, Cumberland County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
• United States Census Schedules, Amelia County, 1850 (age six on Nov
• United States Census Schedules, Amelia County, 1850 (age six on Nov. 16), 1860 (age fifteen on June 2), 1870 (age twenty-six on June 22), 1880 (age thirty-three on June 2), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• Marriage Register, Cumberland County (age twenty-nine on Jan. 29, 1873), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

• Amelia Co. Order Book, 47:201, 261, 374, 377, 48:44, 52, 87, 92, 49:72, 111, Library of Virginia.

• Offices of Staff Officers, Quartermaster and Disbursing Officer, Reports of Persons and Articles Hired, May 1866–March 1867, in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• James H. Anderson v. McD. Delaney, Amelia County Chancery Causes, 1907–006, Local Government Records Collection, Amelia Court Records, Library of Virginia.

• Confederate Pension Application (age eighty on Aug. 2, 1924), Act of 1902 (Servants), Department of Accounts, Record Group 6, Accession 23345, Library of Virginia.

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Political Career 
 

• Election results in General Orders and Circulars, Headquarters First Military District, 1869 (1870), "Summary of the Result for the Election for Members of the House of Delegates of Virginia, Held July 6, 1869," 3.

• Election Record no. 4 (1871) and 6 (1873), in Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 428, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia for the Session of 1871–72 (1873), 32, 33, 70, 124, 389.

• Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 8,1871; November 9, 1871; November 10, 1871

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Secondary Sources 
 

• Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 12 (with birth year of 1844 and undocumented death year of 1929), 68 (portrait).

• Kathleen Halverson Hadfield, ed., Historical Notes on Amelia County, Virginia (1982), 485, 486, 489, 541.

• Birth date and place self-reported in Military Service Records, World War I History Commission Records, Record Group 66, Accession no. 37219, Library of Virginia
• Marriage Register, Culpeper County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
• some items in Papers of Collins Denny, 1872–1943, Accession No. 2672, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Denny to J. Segar Gravatt, February 22, 1962, Papers of John Segar Gravatt, 1941–1999, Accession no. 11584, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Denny, Vote for the Constitution: Section 141 of the Constitution of Virginia Must be Amended in Order to Save Educational Opportunities for the Children of the Commonwealth (1955)
• James R. Sweeney, ed., Race, Reason, and Massive Resistance: The Diary of David J. Mays, 1954–1959 (2008)

• David Pembroke Neff, "The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, 1954–1957," Master's thesis, Old Dominion University (1992)

• Quotation in South Boston Halifax Gazette, October 27, 1957
• Denny's support of Massive Resistance documented in Defenders' News and Views, published Aug. 1955–May 1959

• Richmond News Leader, January 15, 1964 (with editorial tribute)
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, January 15 1964
• New York Times, January 16, 1964
• Washington Post, January 16, 1964
• Memorial in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1964), 167–169

• Clarke County Marriage Bond, 1846, Library of Virginia
• Dew Family Papers (Mss65 D51), Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
• Thomas Roderick Dew Papers, 1830–1967, Accession 1980.122 and 1983.121, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia (first quotation in transcription of Thomas R. Dew Diary, p. 22)
• Thomas R. Dew, Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832 (1832), second through seventh quotation on pages 46, 87, 49, 26, 96, 112
• Death, with date, described in James E. Yeatman to William Bates, August 8, 1846, John Millington Papers (Mss. 65 M59), Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

• Biography in Stephen S. Mansfield, "Thomas Roderick Dew: Defender of the Southern Faith," (Ph.D. dissertation., University of Virginia, 1968)
• Family history in Ernestine Dew White, Genealogy of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Dew, Colonial Virginia Pioneer Immigrant (1937), 87, 107–110

• Letter to editor in Richmond Enquirer, June 3, 1831
• Marriage announcement in Charles Town Spirit of Jefferson, 17 July 1846

• Richmond Enquirer, 8 September 1846, 23 October 1846
• Southern and Western Literary Messenger and Review 12 (Nov. 1846): 704
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 8, 1939
• John Stewart Bryan, Thomas Roderick Dew (1939)