Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Source list

• Birth date in Social Security application, Social Security Administration, Office of Earnings Operations, Baltimore, Maryland
• information provided by niece Marianna Edwards (1990)

• Blanche Sydnor White, History of the Baptists on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1776–1959 (1959), 56–59
• Juliette Mather, Light Three Candles: History of Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia, 1874–1973 [1972], 96–97
• Kirk Mariner, Revival's Children: A Religious History of Virginia's Eastern Shore (1979), 169, 171–172, 300

• Richmond Times-Dispatch, October 19, 1905
• Accomac Peninsula Enterprise, February 25, 1949

• Onancock Eastern Shore News, November 14, 1968
• memorial in Report of the Sixty-Ninth Annual Meeting of Woman's Missionary Union of Virginia (1969)

• 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).

• 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).

• birth date in Social Security application, Social Security Administration, Office of Earnings Operations, Baltimore, Maryland
• Bureau of Vital Statistics Marriage Register, Alexandria City (1913), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia
• Pauline H. Smith v. Charles F. Smith (1938), Final Decree of Divorce in Chancery, no. 559, Clerk of the Circuit Court, Alexandria, Virginia
• Records of the Organized Women Voters of Arlington County (including memorial dated April 24, 1973, minutes, and photographs), Arlington County Public Library, Arlington, Virginia

• Cecil Chittenden, Arlington: A New Frontier (1946), 85

• Arlington Co. Community News, March 20, 1936; July 4, 1940
• Arlington Co. Northern Virginia Sun, March 25 1965
• Arlington Co. Sun, July 5, 1940
• Washington Post, July 5, 1908; April 10, 1924; July 17, 1924; December 30, 1927; January 11, 1928

Primary Sources 
 

• Dates of birth and death inscribed on gravestone in cemetery at Mount Olive Baptist Church, Cumberland County

• Dungee correspondence in William Mahone Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

• Marriage Register, Cumberland County, Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia

• United States Census Schedules, Cumberland County, 1870, 1880, 1900, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• Election results in Election Record no. 14 (1879) and no. 17 (1881), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia

• Cumberland County Order Book, 52:380, Library of Virginia

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Secondary Sources 
 

• Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), vi (photograph), 13

• Biographical and family information in Marilyn Mildred White, "'We Lived on an "Island"': An Afro-American Family and Community in Rural Virginia, 1865–1940" (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, Austin, 1983), esp. 92–101, 109, 307–310, 314 (reproducing biography by son Grant A. Dungee in Cumberland Central Call, June 1940)

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Newspapers 
 

• Richmond Daily Whig, May 5, 1879; February 4, 1880; October 13, 1881; October 27, 1881

• Richmond State, March 8, 1880

• Richmond Daily Dispatch, March 9, 1880

Primary Sources 
 

• United States Census Schedules, King William County, 1850 (age thirty-one on Nov. 17,), 1860 (age thirty-eight on June 18), 1870 (age fifty-one on Aug. 16), and 1880 (age sixty on June 30; also several autograph signatures as census enumerator), all in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• Application (no. 3402) with birthplace, age "51 abt." on Aug. 4, 1871, and autograph signature, Freedman's Savings and Trust Company Records, Record Group 101, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, Maryland.

• Land Tax Returns and Personal Property Tax Returns, King William County, both Record Group 48, Library of Virginia

• Third General Report of the Commissioners of Claims, Submitted December 8, 1873, 43d Congress, 1st sess., House of Representatives Misc. Doc. 23, serial 1617, p. 32.

• Quotation in G. P. Goodyear to Paul R. Hambick, October 31, 1867, Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia, 1865–1869, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1048, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• G. P. Goodyear to Paul R. Hambick, September 8, 1867 and February 28, 1868; copy of King William County deed conveying land for church and school (April 28, 1868); and Sub-Assistant Commissioner's Monthly Report on Education of Freedmen and Refugees, September 1868, all in Records of the Field Offices for the State of Virginia, 1865–1872, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, M1913, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

• Death Register, King William County (age sixty-four), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.

• Estate records in King William Co. Deed Book, 6:384–387, Library of Virginia.

• Estate and family Information in King William County Chancery Causes, Robert T. Dungey, etc. v. Mrs. Mary Dungey etc., 1888-002, Local Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

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House of Delegates 
 

• Election results in Election Record no. 4 (1871), Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, Accession 26041, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.

• Richmond Daily Dispatch, November 9, 1871; November 14, 1871

• Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia, for the Session of 1871–72 (1872), esp. 33, 34, 69–70, 123–124, 386–390.

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Secondary Sources 
 

• Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 12–13 (with names of parents, estimated birth in 1812, surname spelled Dungee, and middle initial W.)

• Birth and death dates on gravestone, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Penn.
• Robley Dunglison Papers, 1830–1869, Historical Medical Library, College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Penn.
• Robley Dunglison Collection, Scott Memorial Library, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Penn.
• Robley Dunglison correspondence in various collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library and Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
• John M. Dorsey, ed., The Jefferson-Dunglison Letters (1960).
• Autobiography of Samuel D. Gross, M.D.… with Sketches of His Contemporaries, ed. Samuel W. Gross and A. Haller Gross (1887), 2:329–335.
• Samuel X. Radbill, ed., "The Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D.," Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new ser., 53 (1963):1–212, with frontispiece portrait, list of honors and positions on 194–196, and bibliography of Dunglison's works on 196–199.

• Mary Jeanne A. Jones and Chalmers L. Gemmill "The Notebook of Robley Dunglison, Student of Clinical Medicine in Edinburgh, 1815–1816," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 22 (1967):261–273.
• Percy G. Hamlin, "Aesculapius in Charlottesville: Robley Dunglison, M.D.," Virginia Cavalcade 22 (summer 1972):14–21.

• Philadelphia Inquirer, April 2, 1869; April 6, 1869 (with account of funeral)
• Richmond Daily Enquirer and Examiner, April 5, 1869
• American Literary Gazette and Publishers’ Circular 12 (April 15, 1869):287–288
• Lippincott’s Magazine of Literature, Science and Education 3 (1869):676–678
• Medical and Surgical Reporter 20 (April 17, 1869): 310, and (April 24, 1869):322–323
• Franklin Peale, Memorial of the Late Robley Dunglison, M.D., One of the Vice-Presidents of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind (1869).