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- 1 2 3 John Craig Stewart (1975). The Governors of Alabama. Pelican Publishers Company. p. 38. ISBN 9781455605194.
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- ↑ Caroline Mays Brevard (1924). A History of Florida from the Treaty of 1763 to Our Own Times: From the treaty of 1763 to the admission to statehood. Florida state historical society. p. 249.
- ↑ Roscoe R. Hill (1916). Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents Relating to the History of the United States in the Papeles Procedentes de Cuba Deposited in the Archivo General de Indias at Seville. Carnegie institution of Washington, Harvard University. ISBN 978-1376469349.