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- 1 2 The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Jan., 1913), pp. 3-19 (17 pages), D. E. Huger Smith
- ↑ History of Savannah, Ga: From Its Settlement to the Close of the Eighteenth Century, Charles Colcock Jones (D. Mason & Company, 1890)
- 1 2 Bonaventure Plantation - SavannahGA.gov
- 1 2 3 4 Historic Bonaventure Cemetery: Photographs from the Collection of the Georgia Historical Society, Arcadia Publishing (1998)
- ↑ The American Counties: Origins of County Names, Dates of Creation, and Population Data, 1950-2000, Joseph Nathan Kane & Charles Curry Aiken (Scarecrow Press, 2005)
- ↑ The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 35: 1 August to 30 November 1801, Thomas Jefferson, 1950
- 1 2 Georgia's Landmarks, Memorials and Legends, Lucian Lamar Knight (The Byrd Printing Company, 1914)
- 1 2 Tombstones I Have Known, Lamar Weaver, Charaman M. Campbell, 2001
- ↑ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (John Berendt; Random House, 1994)
- ↑ "BONAVENTURE: A HISTORICAL SKETCH" - Telfair Museums, July 27, 2018