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Sources consulted for the biography of:Walter Chiles ( –after 6 July 1653)
Primary Sources
- Deposition of 24 July 1637 (age twenty-nine, clothworker, of Bristol), High Court of Admiralty 13/111 no. 301, Public Record Office, National Archives, Kew, England, printed in Dorothy Olivia Shilton and Richard Holworthy, eds., High Court of Admiralty Examinations (MS. Volume 53), 1637–1638 (1932), 127–128.
- William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia, from the First Session of the Legislature, in the Year 1619… (1809–1823), 1:236 (misidentified as Mathew Chiles), 239, 262 (first quotation), 298, 322, 358, 377, 378, 382–383.
- Northampton Co. Deeds, Wills, Etc., 4:22, 49, 126–129, 183.
- 23 Mar. 1650 and 20 Nov. 1673 deeds in Ambler Family Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
- 1654 Dutch documents printed in Henry B. Hoff, "Some Records of Walter Chiles, Virginia Merchant, in the Netherlands," Virginia Genealogist 43 (1999): 218–219 (second quotation).
- 5 Nov. 1655 deed and 17 Dec. 1655 order in Charles City Co. Orders, Deeds, Depositions (1655–1665), 18–19, 23.
Secondary Sources
- Biography in Jon Kukla, Speakers and Clerks of the Virginia House of Burgesses, 1643–1776 (1981), 49–52.
- Arden H. Brame Jr. II, "A Complete Revision of the Ancestry of Walter Chiles (1608–1653) of Bristol, England and Jamestown, Virginia," Augustan Society Omnibus 12 (1990): 110–111, 114, correcting conclusions in Brame, "The English Birth and Ancestry of Walter Chiles (1609–1653) of Jamestowne, Virginia," Augustan Society Omnibus 7 [1987]: 102–109.
- Joanne Chiles Eakin, Walter Chiles of Jamestown (1983), 1–10.
- Patricia W. Lockwood, From Jamestown to Tahlequah: The Virginia Ancestors of Judge John Martin (1994), 1:2–128 (printing many Chiles documents in facsimile).
- Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis, Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond (1998), 51–62.
- Warren M. Billings, A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century (2004), 129–130.
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