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- ↑ Lockridge & Kreider 1966, p. 568-569.
- ↑ Worthington 1827, p. 79–81.
- ↑ Baker, Charlotte Alice (1897). True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars. Press of E.A. Hall & Company. p. 94. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
