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Sources consulted for the biography of:Sir William Gooch (1681–1751)
Primary Sources
- Birth and death dates from funerary monument in Saint Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth, England, as printed in Henry Swinden, The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Burgh of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk (1772), 875
- Family relationships in G. E. Cokayne, ed., Complete Baronetage, vol. 5 (1906), 91
- Approximate date and place of marriage in Allegation of April 14, 1714, parish of Saint Martin Orgars, in London and Surrey Marriage Bonds and Allegations, London Metropolitan Archives, London, England
- Gooch's correspondence in:
- Colonial Office Papers 5, Public Record Office, National Archives, Kew, England (available on Virginia Colonial Records Project microfilm, Library of Virginia)
- Letters to the bishop of London in Fulham Palace Papers, Lambeth Palace Library, London, England, have been published in George MacLaren Brydon, ed., "The Virginia Clergy: Governor Gooch's Letters to the Bishop of London, 1727–1749," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 32 (1924): 209–236, 321–337 and 33 (1925): 51–64
- Transcripts of Gooch's letters to his brother in John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, Virginia
Secondary Sources
- Percy Scott Flippin, "William Gooch: Successful Royal Governor of Virginia," William and Mary Quarterly, 2d ser., 5 (1925): 225–258, and 6 (1926): 1–38
- David Alan Williams, "Political Alignments in Colonial Virginia Politics, 1698–1750" (Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1959)
- Andrew Karl Prinz, "Sir William Gooch in Virginia: The King's Good Servant" (Ph.D. dissertation, Northwestern University, 1963)
- Edward M. Riley, "Governor William Gooch, A Faithful Trustee for the Public Good," Goochland County Historical Society Magazine 6 (Spring 1974): 5–13
- Randall Shrock, "Maintaining the Prerogative: Three Royal Governors in Virginia as a Case Study, 1710–1758" (Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1980), esp. 82–186
- Stacy L. Lorenz, "'To Do Justice to His Majesty, the Merchant and the Planter': Governor William Gooch and the Virginia Tobacco Inspection Act of 1730," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 108 (2000): 345–392
Death Notices
- Gentleman's Magazine 21 (1751): 573
- Williamsburg Virginia Gazette, February 27, 1752
- New-York Gazette revived in the Weekly Post-Boy, March 2, 1752 (with place of death)
- Annapolis Maryland Gazette, March 12, 1752
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