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- ↑ Woodard, Colin (2007). The Republic of Pirates. Harcourt, Inc. pp. 229, 232. ISBN 978-0-15-101302-9.
- 1 2 Johnson, Captain Charles (1724). A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES. London: T. Warner. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ↑ Headlam, Cecil (1934). America and West Indies: Miscellaneous, 1723 | British History Online (Vol 33 ed.). 1934: His Majesty's Stationery Office. pp. 425–429. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) - ↑ Earle, Peter (2013). The Pirate Wars. New York: Macmillan. p. 206. ISBN 9781466849075 . Retrieved 13 September 2017.
- ↑ Cordingly, David (2013). Under the Black Flag: The Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates. New York: Random House Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307763075 . Retrieved 28 July 2017.
