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- ↑ Walton, Emma Lee (1913). Clark Genealogy. New York: Frank Allaben Genealogical Company. pp. 17–18.
- ↑ Davis, Charles Henry Stanley. History of Wallingford, Conn: From Its Settlement in 1670 to the Present Time, Including Meriden, which was One of Its Parishes Until 1806, and Cheshire, which was Incorporated in 1780, Volume 1. 1870, pages 412-413.
- ↑ Entertaining the Devil in Connecticut Retrieved December 26, 2017