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- 1 2 A List of the Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, Majors, Captains, Lieutenants and Ensigns of His Majesty's Forces (1740) page 22.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661-1714, volume VI (1904) page 75.
- 1 2 3 4 Richard Cannon, ed. A. Cunningham Robertson, Historical Record of the King's, Liverpool Regiment of Foot (1883) page 295.
- 1 2 W. R. Williams, Reply to "An Army List of 1740" in Notes and Queries , 12th series, volume II, no. 42 (14 October 1916) page 312.
- ↑ The Register Book of Burials in the Parish of St James in Westminster in the County of Middlesex. Volume IV. 1754-1812. 15 March 1760.
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