^Goodwin pp. 4–5 notes that no archive indicates Fleming graduated, nor was commissioned, nor held captive, only that he said he arrived in Virginia in July 1755, but that the Nansemond County Upper Parish Vestry book indicates Dr. William Fleming received payments from 1751 to 1754
^Edmund P. Goodwin, Colonel William Fleming of Botetourt (Roanoke: Progress Press 1976) p.3 explains how an Act of Parliament in 1751 changed the English calendar to begin on January 1 rather than March 25, leading to massive confusion in dates applicable to children born in the first quarter of the year.
^Gordon, Armistead C., Jr. "William Fleming". Dictionary of American Biography
