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- ↑ Ordnance No. 1 - 1838. Government of Trinidad & Tobago. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
- ↑ "Gazette Announcements", The Belfast News-Letter, 17 March 1840, p. 1.
- ↑ Perfect, David. (2016). Historical Dictionary of The Gambia (5th ed.). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-4422-6526-4.
- ↑ "Gazette Promotions", The Gentleman's Magazine , Vol. 189 (1851), p. 543.
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