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- ↑ Fortescue, J W (1905). America and West Indies: July 1698, 11-14 | British History Online. London. Retrieved 10 November 2024.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ↑ Chapin, Howard M. (1926). Privateer Ships and Sailors: The First Century of American Colonial Privateering, 1625-1725. Paris: Imprimerie G. Mouton. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
