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Sources consulted for the biography of:Thomas Roderick Dew (1802–1846)
Primary Sources
- 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
Secondary Sources
- 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
Newspapers
- Letter to editor in Richmond Enquirer, June 3, 1831
- Marriage announcement in Charles Town Spirit of Jefferson, 17 July 1846
Obituaries, Memorials, and Reinterment
- 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)
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