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- ↑ Chesney, Alexander; Siebert, Wilbur Henry (1921). Journal of Alexander Chesney: a South Carolina Loyalist . Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- ↑ Burke, Bernard (1863). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain, Volume 2, 1863 edition, page 1437 . Retrieved 25 April 2010.
- Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
- Search current Google Books for Nisbet Balfour
- South Carolina and the American Revolution: a battlefield history - by John W. Gordon, pages 163 & 226
- Reynolds, Jr., William R. (2012). Andrew Pickens: South Carolina Patriot in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-7864-6694-8.
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