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Sources consulted for the biography of:Robert Dinwiddie (1692–1770)
Primary Sources
- 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.
Secondary Sources
- 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.
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