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- ↑ American Ancestry, by Thomas Patrick Hughes, Frank Munsell (1887)
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- ↑ Colonial records Rhode Island, III, p. 333)
- ↑ History of New York during the revolutionary war: and of the leading events Archived 2016-04-22 at the Wayback Machine by Thomas Jones, 1879, p. liv
- ↑ The Jones Family of Long Island: Descendants of Major Thomas Jones, by John Henry Jones, 1999, p.26.