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Sources consulted for the biography of:John B. Eastham (ca. 1828–1869)
Primary Sources
- Age 23 on August 29, 1850 in United States Census Schedules, Louisa County, 1850; age 32 on July 13, 1860, in United States Census Schedules, Louisa County, 1860, both in Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Louisa County Marriage Bond, Library of Virginia (age 30 on October 4, 1858)
- Middle name possibly Bunch or Bernard in Louisa County Deed Book BB 221–222, Library of Virginia
- First and second quotations in circular letter "To the Unconditional Union Men of Virginia" (n.d. but after May 8, 1867), Lunsford Lomax Lewis Papers, Robert Alonzo Brock Collection, Huntington, San Marino, California (microfilm available at Library of Virginia).
- Third quotation in Marcus S. Hopkins to Orlando Brown, March 27, 1867, Reports on Prominent Whites and Freedmen (March–May 1867), Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Virginia, 1865–1869, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Record Group 105, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Death date of July 1869 (at age 40) in United States Census Schedules, Louisa County, 1870, Mortality Schedule, Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Estate inventory and sale in Louisa Co. Will Book, 17:494–499, Library of Virginia
Convention of 1867–1868
- 1867 election in Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, no. 427, Accession 38055, State Government Records Collection, Library of Virginia.
- Documents of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia (1868), no. 1, "Communication from Major-General Schofield, with Accompanying Documents," 37.
- Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Virginia [1868], 28, 29, 213, 224, 284, 295, 308, 389.
- 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" in Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 86 (1978): 461–484.
- Richard G. Lowe, "Virginia's Reconstruction Convention: General Schofield Rates the Delegates" Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 80 (1972): 352.
Newspapers
- Richmond Enquirer, October 19, 1858
- Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser, October 22, 1858
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, October 26, 1867
- Daily Richmond Whig, October 29, 1867 (letter declaring Eastham's intention to resign); April 21, 1868 (Eastham's explanation for voting against Constitution, fourth quotation)
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