Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

• Birth and death dates from gravestone inscription, provided by Grayson Heritage Foundation (2008).
• Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
• United States Census Schedules, Grayson Co., 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Fragments of personal, family, and business history in Grayson Co. Deed Book, 10, 11, 16, 18, 30, Library of Virginia.
• Endorsements Sent, June 1866–August 1867, Wytheville (subassistant commissioner), Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, Bureau of Refugees, Freedman, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Election Record no. 427 (1867), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, Barcode 1151341, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
• Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 28, 389.
• Records of Appointment of Postmasters, Virginia, Grayson County, Post Office Department, Record Group 28, National Archives and Record Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Grayson County Will Book, 9:248–249, Library of Virginia.

• Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls, Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia (1914), 183.
• Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 355.
• Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 481.

• baptism date in Chilham Parish Register, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, Kent, England
• Virginia Colonial Land Office Patents, Book 2:287 (probably first presence in Virginia by 1650), 316 and Book 3:16, 32, Record Group 4, Library of Virginia
• Digges's correspondence with Oliver Cromwell in Rawlinson Manuscripts, A.27 (June 29, 1655) and A.261 (October 8, 1655), Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, England
• General Assembly's December 15, 1656 instructions to Digges in Thomas Jefferson Papers, Series 8 (Virginia Records Manuscripts), Vol. 6:215, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
• Samuel Hartlib, The Reformed Virginian Silk-Worm (1655), 26, 27–28, 38
• Henry R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds., Journal of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1659/60–1693 (1914), 57 (second quotation)
• William Hand Browne, ed., Archives of Maryland, 3 (1885): 332–335, 503–512
• numerous references to Digges in:
• Warren M. Billings, with Maria Kimberly, eds., The Papers of Sir William Berkeley, 1605–1677 (2007)
• William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619 . . . (1809–1823), including election to Council and first quotation on 1:388 and election as governor on 1:408
• Henry R. McIlwaine, ed., Minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, 2d ed. (1979)
• will in Prerogative Court of Canterbury, Lloyd 73, National Archives, Kew, England
• death date in his fifty-fifth year on gravestone printed in J. L. Hall, "Ancient Epitaphs and Inscriptions, in York and James City Counties, Virginia," Proceedings of the Virginia Historical Society, 1891 (1892), 107

• biography and family relationships in John Frederick Dorman, ed., Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607–1624/5, 4th ed. (2004– ), 1:821–824
• Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (2004), 77
• Joseph Foster, Register of Admissions to Gray's Inn, 1521–1889 (1889), 213

• architectural drawing and floor plan of Montpelier attributed to Dinsmore in Thomas R. Blackburn Architectural Drawings Books, vol. 1, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
• Dinsmore receipts and accounts in Massie Family Papers (1767–1993), Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
• Dinsmore correspondence and accounts in:

• Thomas Jefferson Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (including quotation in Jefferson to Benjamin Henry Latrobe, May 11, 1815)
• Coolidge Collection of Thomas Jefferson Manuscripts, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
• Cocke Family Papers, 1725–1939, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Jefferson Papers, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Papers of the Proctor of the University of Virginia, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Julian P. Boyd et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson (1950– )
• J. Jefferson Looney et al., eds., The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series (2004– )
• Robert A. Rutland et al., eds., The Papers of James Madison: Presidential Series (1984– ), esp. volumes 1 and 2

• Frank Edgar Grizzard Jr., "Documentary History of the Construction of the Buildings at the University of Virginia, 1817–1828" (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1996)
• Albemarle County Will Book, 10:109, Library of Virginia

• Leonard Allison Morrison, The Earliest History and Genealogy . . . of the Dinsmoor-Dinsmore Family of Scotland, Ireland, and America . . . (1891), 15–16
• Richard Charles Cote, "The Architectural Workmen of Thomas Jefferson in Virginia" (Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1986)
• K. Edward Lay, "Charlottesville's Architectural Legacy," Magazine of Albemarle County History 46 (1988): 31–53
• K. Edward Lay, "Dinsmore and Neilson: Jefferson's Master Builders," Colonnade: The Newsjournal of the University of Virginia School of Architecture 6 (spring 1991): 9–13
• K. Edward Lay, The Architecture of Jefferson Country (2000), esp. 92–93, 96–98

• death notice in Charlottesville Virginia Advocate, May 14, 1830 (died "in the 59th year of his age")

• birth date in Dinwiddie family Bible records (1830–1919), Accession 20521, Library of Virginia
• Durward Howes, ed., American Women: The Standard Biographical Dictionary of Notable Women (1939), 3:234, with self-reported birthplace of Greenwood, Albemarle County
• correspondence, memoranda, and reports in The Papers of William A. Dinwiddie, Emily Dinwiddie, and the Dinwiddie Family (second quotation in report dated April 25, 1936, box 10), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• Emily Wayland Dinwiddie Scrapbook regarding World War I and Women's Suffrage (1913–1918), Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
• unpublished Dinwiddie MS on Albert Taylor Bledsoe and other materials, Virginia Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia
• publications include Dinwiddie, "The Truth about Trinity's Tenements," The Survey 23 (1910): 797–809 (first quotation on 807)
• partial bibliography in Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Housing: References to Books and Magazine Articles (1912), 19–22, 35
• Bureau of Vital Statistics Death Certificate (no. 3105523), Augusta County, Virginia Department of Health-Division of Vital Records, Richmond, Virginia (with variant birth date of August 18, 1879, birthplace of Alexandria, and cremation location)

• Arthur W. James, The State Becomes a Social Worker: An Administrative Interpretation (1942), 94–95 (with birthplace of Albemarle County)
• Elizabeth Dinwiddie Holladay, comp., Dinwiddie Family Records (1957), 54–55

• New York Times, July 19, 1904; February 25, 1910; November 11, 1910; May 7, 1913; May 14, 1914; January 14, 1917
• Richmond News Leader, May 13, 1927; September 6, 1932
• Washington Post, February 7, 1930
• The Survey 25 (1910): 145–146
• Virginia Department of Public Welfare Public Welfare 4 (May 1927): 2, and 12 (Oct. 1934): 1, 4

• New York Times, March 13, 1949
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, March 13, 1949

• R. A. Brock, ed., The Official Records of Robert Dinwiddie, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Virginia, 1751–1758, 2 vols. (1883–1884), with epitaph (with death date) printed on 1:xvii, and variant death date of July 21, 1770, in London Chronicle, July 28–31, 1770, printed on 1:xviii–xix.
• Louis Knott Koontz, ed., Robert Dinwiddie: Correspondence Illustrative of His Career in American Colonial Government and Westward Expansion (1951), first quotation on 89.
• Henry R. McIlwaine, Wilmer L. Hall, and Benjamin J. Hillman, eds., Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia (1925–1966), volumes 5 and 6.
• Henry R. McIlwaine, ed., Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1752–1755, 1756–1758 (1909), second quotation on 154.
• Jack P. Greene, ed., "The Case of the Pistole Fee: The Report of a Hearing on the Pistole Fee Dispute Before the Privy Council, June 18, 1754," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 66 (1958): 399–422.
• Dinwiddie correspondence in W. W. Abbot et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series (1983–1995), volumes 1–5.

• Louis Knott Koontz, Robert Dinwiddie, His Career in American Colonial Government and Westward Expansion (1941).
• John Richard Alden, Robert Dinwiddie, Servant of the Crown (1973), with birth date based on family documents in the Lockhart Family Papers at Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Va.
• Randall Shrock, "Maintaining the Prerogative: Three Royal Governors in Virginia as a Case Study, 1710–1758" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina, 1980), esp. 187–276.

• Variant birth date of April 14, 1881 in Norfolk City Birth Register and Birth Register, Norfolk City, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
• Self-reported birth date of April 15, 1881, in Military Service Records, World War I History Commission Records, Accession 37219, Record Group 66, Library of Virginia.
• Self-reported birth date of April 15, 1881, in passport application, July 18, 1923, General Records of the Department of State, Record Group 59, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Self-reported birth date of April 15, 1881, in World War II Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards (1942), Record Group 147, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Armistead Mason Dobie Papers, Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
• Some Dobie letters in John Paul Papers, Arthur J. Morris Law Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
• Corbin et al. v. County School Board of Pulaski County, Virginia, et al. (1949), Federal Reporter, 2d ser., 177:924–928, quotation on 928.

• Biography in W. Hamilton Bryson, ed., Legal Education in Virginia, 1779–1979: A Biographical Approach (1982), 196–202, with bibliography of publications and portrait facing 197.
• Biography in Washington and Lee Law Review 55 (1998): 490–493.
• Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality (1977 ed.), 485–506.
• John Ritchie, The First Hundred Years: A Short History of the School of Law of the University of Virginia for the Period 1826–1926 (1978), 71–75.

• Feature article in Saturday Evening Post, December 28, 1940, condensed in University of Virginia Alumni News 29 (1941): 71–72.
• Charlottesville Daily Progress, July 23, 1958
• Richmond News Leader, May 16, 1939; May 17, 1939; December 19, 1939; February 1, 1956
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, May 17, 1939; December 17, 1939; January 20, 1956

• Charlottesville Daily Progress, August 8, 1962; August 10, 1962 (editorial tribute)
• New York Times, August 8, 1962
• Richmond News Leader, August 8, 1962; August 9, 1962 (editorial tribute)
• Richmond Times-Dispatch, August 8, 1962; August 9, 1962 (editorial tribute)
• Washington Post, August 8, 1962
• Memorial in Federal Reporter, 2d ser., 311:5–29.
• Memorial in Virginia Law Review 49 (1963): 1079–1081.
• Memorial in Virginia State Bar Association Proceedings (1963), 160–167.

• United States Census Schedules, Oswego Co., N.Y., 1850 (age thirty on July 26) and Rock Co., Wis., 1860 (age thirty-nine on July 18), both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
• Family information, including middle name of Maine according to family tradition, provided by descendant Marilyn Saporito (2015).
• Jonathan D. Ledyard v. Orrin G. Munger, Sandford M. Dodge, and John Dodge, June 14, 1856 (judgment), Oswego Co. Supreme Court, Oswego Co. Records Center, Oswego, N.Y.
• 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.
• Personal Property Tax Returns, Mecklenburg Co. (1868–1869), Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
• Richmond City Death Certificate (age "about 49"), Library of Virginia.

• 1867 election in Election Record no. 427, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
• Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia (1868), 60, 199, 520, 555.
• Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 389.
• Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 349.
• Richard L. Hume, "The Membership of the Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1867–1868: A Study of the Beginnings of Congressional Reconstruction in the Upper South," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 461–481.
• 1869 election 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," 22.

• Clarksville Tobacco Plant, October 18, 1867; January 10, 1868; January 31, 1868
• Daily Richmond Whig, October 29, 1867; November 13, 1867
• Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, June 5, 1868
• Richmond Daily Dispatch, March 16, 1870
• American Freedman, 3 (April 1869): 15

• Richmond Daily Dispatch, July 26, 1870
• Richmond Daily Whig, July 26, 1870; July 27, 1870
• Petersburg Index, July 27, 1870

Primary Sources 
 

• Correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (quotations in Dodson to Mahone, December 7, 1887).

• Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 416, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

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Secondary Sources 
 

• Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 12, 52 (portrait).

• Harold S. Forsythe, "'But My Friends Are Poor': Ross Hamilton and Freedpeople's Politics in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, 1869–1901," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 105 (1997): 416–421.

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Newspapers 
 

• Washington, D.C., People's Advocate, October 6, 1883; October 27, 1883 (biographical article with portrait)

• New York Globe, March 8, 1884; March 15, 1884; September 27, 1884

• New York Freeman, February 7, 1885

• Marriage in Knoxville Journal, December 2, 1888

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Obituary 
 

• Knoxville Journal, December 27, 1888