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- 1 2 3 4 Toogood, Anna Coxe. Historic Resource Study - Independence Mall, The 18th Century Development, Block One, Chestnut to Market, Fifth to Sixth Streets (August 2001)
- ↑ "Historical List of Supreme Court Justices". The Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania.
- 1 2 Memorial History of the City of Philadelphia, Vol. 1, pp. 184-85 (1895)
- ↑ Anderson's Appeal (1906 court decision)
- ↑ The Griffith Jones House, The Library Company of Philadelphia, Retrieved 7 March 2022
