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- ↑ A Business Directory of the Subscribers to the New Map of Maine With a Brief History and Description of the State, William Willis (1862), p. 48
- ↑ The Maine Register, and Business Directory (1856), p. 277
- ↑ Whaling in Maine, Charles H. Lagerbom (2020) ISBN 9781439670552
- ↑ Yarmouth Revisited, Amy Aldredge, p. 68
- ↑ "Shipbuilding in Yarmouth" – Yarmouth Historical Society
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "NRHP nomination for S.C. Blanchard House". National Park Service. Retrieved 2015-10-17.
- ↑ Ship Registers and Enrollments of New Orleans, Louisiana: 1851–1860, Survey of Federal Archives (U.S.) (1941), p. 66
- ↑ "Crew-lists for Maine-registered sailing vessels" – Maine Historical Society
- ↑ Yarmouth Revisited, Amy Aldredge, p. 70
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