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- ↑ Little, Charles; Brown, James (1838). COLLECTIONS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Boston: Freeman and Bolles. p. 157. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ↑ LiBrizzi, Marcus (2017). Haunted Islands in the Gulf of Maine. Lanham MD: Down East Books. ISBN 9781608939794 . Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ↑ Little, Benerson (2007). The Buccaneer's Realm: Pirate Life on the Spanish Main, 1674-1688. Washington DC: Potomac Books, Inc. p. 70. ISBN 9781597971010 . Retrieved 20 August 2017.
- ↑ Fortescue, J.W. (1899). America and West Indies: March 1687, 1-15 | British History Online. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 324–343. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
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