[65] "Virginia Gleanings in England," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (October 1904), vol. 12, no. 2, p. 179.
[66] "List of Colonial Officers," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (January 1901), vol. 8, no. 3, p. 328; and "Lightfoot Family," William and Mary College Quarterly (October 1894), ser. 1, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 104.
[67] "Patents Issued ...," William and Mary College Quarterly (January 1904), ser. 1, vol. 12, no. 3, p. 186. For similar spelling see note 7, above.
[68] "Escheat, in Common-law, signifieth lands that fall to a Lord within his Manor, by forfeiture, or the death of his Tenant without Heirs; it cometh from the French word Escheire, to fall" (Phillips, New World of Words).
[69] On August 14, 1710, Richard Burbydge was among those who signed a report on the inspection of the vessel Jamaica Merchant, lying at anchor in the upper district of the James River, at the precept of Governor Spotswood. The inspectors were sworn by Capt. John Geddes, a justice of the peace for James County. (Calendar of Virginia State Papers and other Manuscripts, 1652-1781, edit. Wm. P. Palmer, M.D., Richmond, 1875, vol. 1, p. 141.) This is the only reference to Burbydge that has been found.
[70] L. H. Jones, Captain Robert Jones of London and Virginia (Albany, 1891), p. 34.
[71] "Virginia Quit Rent Rolls, 1704," Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 31, no. 2 (April 1923), p. 157; vol. 31, no. 3 (July 1923), p. 222; vol. 32, no. 1 (January 1924), p. 72.
[72] Colonial Records of North Carolina, edit. William L. Saunders (Raleigh 1886), vol. 1, p. 590.
[73] Alonzo T. Dill, "Eighteenth Century New Bern," North Carolina Historical Review (January 1945), vol. 22, no. 1, p. 18.
[74] "Bruton Church," William and Mary College Quarterly (January 1895), ser. 1, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 180.