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- ↑ "Boland Burying Ground Sharon CT Headstones". Archived from the original on 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2012-03-05.
- ↑ http://records.ancestry.com/Elijah_Juckett_records.ashx?pid=16901249 [ user-generated source ]
- ↑ "Massachusetts soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War: A compilation from the archives, prepared and published by the Secretary of the Commonwealth in accordance with chapter 100, resolves of 1891". 1901.
- ↑ "Sharon Veterans Monument, a War Memorial".
- ↑ "Boland Burying Ground Sharon CT Headstones". Archived from the original on 2011-09-20. Retrieved 2012-03-05.