Recommended Reading
Catesby, Mark (1682-1749). The Natural History of Florida, The Carolinas, and The Bahama Islands.
Catesby, Robert C. A History of the Catesbys From 1086 to 1986.
Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants 1623-1666. Abstracted and Indexed by Nell Marion Nugent, Virginia Land Office, Richmond, VA. Baltimore Publishing Co., Inc., 1963. (Burwell, Cocke, and Jones)
Cocke, Leonie Doss, and Virginia Webb Cocke. Cockes and Cousins. Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Brothers, Inc., 1967.
Dowdey, Clifford. The Virginia Dynasties. Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, & Co., 1969. (Provides information on Dr. William Cocke’s appointment to the Council by Governor Spotswood, page 237)
Feduccia, Alan. Catesby’s Birds of Colonial America. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 1985.
Hardy, Stella Pickett. Colonial Families of the Southern States of America. Second Edition with revisions and additions by the author Baltimore: Southern Books, 1958. (Chapter on Burwell family-Cocke and Jones families included)
Meade, Bishop. Old Churches, Ministers, and Families of Virginia. Two Volumns. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1861. (Article XXVIII-Major Lewis Burwell, Article XXX-Tombs at Carter Creek or Fairfield, Article XXXV-Rev. Mr. Latane, Article XXXVII-Judge Pendleton)
Meyers, Amy R. W. and Margaret Beck Pritchard. Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Vision. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press,
Stewart, Doug. Smithsonian, September, 1997, pp. 96-103.
Yetter, George Humphrey. Williamsburg Before and After: The Rebirth of Virginia’s Colonial Capital. Williamsburg, VA: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988.
JONES genealogy
Amadon, George F. Rise of the Ironclads. Missoula, MT.: Pictorial Histories Pub. Co., 1988.
Bradley, Udolpho Theodore. "The Contentious Commodore: Thomas ap R. Jones of the Old Navy, 1788-1858." Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 1933.
Daly, R. W. How the Merrimac Won: The Strategic Story of the C.S.S. Virginia. New York: Thomas Crowell, 1957.
Garrison, Webb. Civil War Curiosities.
Hanks, Robert J. "Commodore Jones and His Private War With Mexico." Amer. West (1979): 30-63.
Jones, Catesby ap R. Jones. "Journal." University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI.
Jones, Judge Lewis. Capt. Roger Jones of London and Virginia. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell’s Sons, Publishers, 1891. (References-Bathurst, Belfield, Browning, Burwell, Carter, Catesby, Cocke, Graham, Fauntleroy, Hickman, Hoskins, Latane, Meriwether, Skelton, Walker, Waring, Woodford, and others - includes pictures and old letters)
Mabry, W.S. Brief Sketch of the Career of Captain Catesby ap R. Jones. Selma, AL. W.S. Mabry, 1912.
Melton, Maurice. "The Selma Naval Ordnance Works." Civil War Times Illustrated, XIV (1975): 18-35.
Potter, E.B. The Naval Academy Illustrated History of the American Navy. New York: Galahad Books, 1971.
Scharf, J. Thomas. History of the Confederate States Navy From Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel: Its Stupendous Struggle With the Great Navy of the United States; the Engagements Fought in the Rivers and Harbors of the South, and Upon the High Seas; Blockade-Running, First Use of Iron-Clads and Torpedoes, and Privateer History. Baltimore: Fairfax Press, 1887.
Turner, Maxine. Navy Gray: A Story of the Confederate Navy on the Chattahoochee and Apalachicola Rivers. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama, 1988.
WARING genealogy
Motley, Arnold (Clerk of Essex Co. Circuit Court). THOMAS WARING, GENTLEMAN OF Essex County.
WOODFORD genealogy
Stewart, Mrs. Catesby Willis. The Life of Brigadier General William Woodford of the American Revolution.
BURWELL genealogy
Goldsmith, Jewel Shelton. Medicine Bags and Bumpy Roads. Valley Publishing Co., 1985.
John, Paul. Burwell Residents of Kings Creek and Descendants of William Cocke. Published by the Author, 203 Live Oak, Baytown, TX, 1982. (Information on the Burwell family and families Armistead, Bacon, Ball, Emmerson, Jones, Latane, Waring, and others of England and Virginia)
Miller, Randall M., editor. Dear Master, Letters of a Slave Family. Athens and London: Thrasher Books, The University of Georgia Press.