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Sources consulted for the biography of:John Robinson (1705–1766)
Primary Sources
- Birth date and first marriage recorded in Parish Register of Christ Church, Middlesex County, Va., from 1653 to 1812 (1897), 64 (with old style year of 1704), 164.
- Gravestone inscription printed in William Meade, Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (1861 ed.), 1:378.
- Career documented in John Pendleton Kennedy and H. R. McIlwaine, eds., Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia (Richmond, 1905–1915), but see esp. Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1727–1734 to 1736–1740 (1910), 29 (first quotation), 319 (second quotation).
- Jack P. Greene, ed., The Diary of Colonel Landon Carter of Sabine Hall, 1752–1778, 2 vols. (1965), 1:65–124 (third quotation on p. 84).
- George Reese, ed., The Official Papers of Francis Fauquier, Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, 1758–1768, 3 vols. (1980–1983), 1:43 (fifth quotation).
- W. W. Abbot et al., eds., The Papers of George Washington: Colonial Series (1983–1995), 3:352 (fourth quotation).
- Edmund Randolph, History of Virginia, ed. Arthur H. Shaffer (1970), 173–174 (sixth and seventh quotations).
Secondary Sources
- Family history in "The Robinson Family, of Middlesex &c.", Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 16 (1908): 106–107, 215–217, 17 (1909): 318–319, 429–430.
- Second marriage documented in "The Gorsuch and Lovelace Families," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 25 (1917): 435.
- Jack P. Greene, "The Attempt to Separate the Offices of Speaker and Treasurer in Virginia, 1758–1766," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 71 (1963): 11–18.
- Jon Kukla, Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643–1776 (1981), 20–24, 123–128.
- David John Mays, Edmund Pendleton, 1721–1803: A Biography (1952), esp. 1:174–223, 358–375.
- Joseph Albert Ernst, "The Robinson Scandal Redivivus: Money, Debts, and Politics in Revolutionary Virginia," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 77 (1969): 146–173.
Newspapers
- Third marriage reported in lost December 21, 1759, issue of the Virginia Gazette as abstracted in "Notes from Colonial Virginia Newspapers," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 16 (1908): 207.
Obituaries
- Died "On Saturday Night last" (i.e., May 10, 1766), in Williamsburg Virginia Gazette (Rind), May 16, 1766 (eighth quotation).
- Died "On Sunday last" (i.e., May 11, 1766), in Williamsburg Virginia Gazette (Purdie and Dixon), May 16, 1766.
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