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- 1 2 3 4 Anna Lott, ‘Meades, Anna (bap. 1734, d. in or before 1779?)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 April 2016
- ↑ World and Fashionable Advertiser (London, England), Thursday, January 18, 1787; Issue 16.
- ↑ Oracle and Public Advertiser (London, England), Monday, January 2, 1797; Issue 19 509.
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