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- ↑ Mary E. Sandel: Bainbridge County, Mississippi, 1823 Census & History, privately published, n.p., 1992.
- ↑ Dunbar Rowland: Encyclopedia of Mississippi History, Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions and Persons, Selwyn A. Brant, Madison, Wis., 1907, Vol. I, p. 179.
- ↑ Sandel, 1992.
- ↑ Sandel, 1992.
- ↑ Rowland, 1907.