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- ↑ E., Minchinton, Walter (1984). Virginia slave-trade statistics, 1698-1775. King, Celia M. (Celia Mary), Waite, Peter B., Virginia State Library. Richmond: Virginia State Library. ISBN 0884901181. OCLC 10799029.
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- ↑ Society of Merchant Ventures (1963). Politics And The Port of Bristol In The Eighteenth Century: The Petitions of the Society of Merchant Ventures 1698-1803. Bristol Record Society. p. 212.
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