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- 1 2 3 4 University of Delaware, Ridgely Family Papers: Selected Family History , accessed January 28, 2023.
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- ↑ Jackson, Thomas Clark (November 30, 2011). "Caesar Rodney". 2016 The Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Retrieved January 14, 2016.
- 1 2 Denison, Doug (August 31, 2010). "Justice Ridgely to reclaim ancestral Eden Hill mansion". Dover Post.
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