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- ↑ "Remembering Charleston's Liberty Tree, Part 1". Charleston County Public Library. 2020-06-26. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- 1 2 MSSC Staff (2016-10-04). "Peter Fayssoux & the Liberty Tree | Medical Society of South Carolina" . Retrieved 2021-01-04.
- ↑ "Roots of Freedom | Charleston Magazine". CHARLESTON SC |. 2019-07-16. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
- ↑ Levin, A. J. (1944). "Mr. Justice William Johnson, Creative Dissenter". Michigan Law Review. 43 (3): 497–548. doi:10.2307/1283412. ISSN 0026-2234. JSTOR 1283412.
- ↑ Brack, Andy (2020-10-10). "Statehouse Report – BRACK: Charleston key in Revolutionary, Civil wars". www.statehousereport.com. Retrieved 2021-01-04.
- ↑ "The Liberty Tree Historical Marker". www.hmdb.org. Retrieved 2021-01-02.
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