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- 1 2 3 4 Dunbar Rowland, ed., Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, Volume 2 (1907), p. 280.
- 1 2 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi (1891), p. 450.
- 1 2 "At Home", The Natchez Weekly Courier (December 9, 1831), p. 6.
- 1 2 3 Thomas H. Somerville, "A Sketch of the Supreme Court of Mississippi", in Horace W. Fuller, ed.,The Green Bag, Vol. XI (1899), p. 506.
- ↑ The Mississippi Free Trader (October 14, 1840), p. 1.
- ↑ "Meeting of the Bar of Adams County", Mississippi Free Trader (October 1, 1845), p. 1.
- ↑ "Death of Judge Alexander Montgomery", The Clarion-Ledger (September 18, 1878), p. 2.
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