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- ↑ Cook, Louis Atwood (1918). History of Norfolk County, Massachusetts, 1622-1918. S.J. Clarke publishing Company. p. 478.
- ↑ Massachusetts (1895). Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Court of Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth. p. 778.
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