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- ↑ Howard B. Rock; Paul A. Gilje; Robert Asher, eds. (1995). ""Becoming Joseph T. Buckingham" by Gary J. Kornblith". American artisans: crafting social identity, 1750-1850. JHU Press. p. 133. ISBN 0-8018-5029-0.
- ↑ Howard B. Rock; Paul A. Gilje; Robert Asher, eds. (1995). ""Spavined Ministers, Lying Toothpullers, and Buggering Priests": Third-Partyism and the Search for Security in the Antebellum North by Bruce Laurie". American artisans: crafting social identity, 1750-1850. JHU Press. pp. 98–122. ISBN 0-8018-5029-0; (See p. 102.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ Lunt, George (1858). Radicalism in religion, philosophy and social life: four papers from the Boston Courier for 1858. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co.
- ↑ "Boston Courier". Library of Congress Online Catalog.
