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- ↑ Thwing, Walter Eliot (1908), History of the First Church in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1630-1904, Boston, MA: W. A. Butterfield, p. 294
- ↑ Hartford Daily Courant (Mar 19, 1873), THE FOUNDERING OF THE GRACE DARLING, Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Daily Courant, p. 2
