(1) Susie M. Ames, County Court Records of Accomack-Northampton, Virginia 1640-1645 (Charlottesville, Virginia: The University Press of Virginia, 1973), 423, quoting Orders, Deeds, Wills, &c., No. 2, 1640-45, Northampton County, Virginia, 225
(2) Howard Mackey and Marlene A. Groves, Northampton County, Virginia Record Book, Orders, Deeds, Wills &c, Vol. 3, 1645-1651 (Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 2000), 206, quoting Northampton County, Virginia Order Book 3:109.
(3) Nell Marion Nugent, Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666, Vol. I (1934; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 170, 183, citing Virginia Patent Book 2:109, 177.
(4) "Nehemiah Covington (Sr.)," quoting Matthew M. Wise, The Boston Family History (Charlotte, North Carolina: The Delmar Co., 1986).