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- An Embattled Priest: The Life of Father Oliver Sherman Prescott , by Jervis Zimmerman (2012)
- Steven Haws, The Cowley Fathers in Philadelphia (AuthorHouse, 2019)
- Michael T. Malone, "The Ecclesiastical Trials in Massachusetts of Oliver Sherman Prescott" in Church History, Vol. 41, No. 1, 1972, pp. 94–107.
- Lewis Wright, "Anglo-Catholicism in Antebellum North Carolina: Levi Silliman Ives and the Society of the Holy Cross" in Anglican and Episcopal History, Vol. LXIX, No. 1, pp. 44–71.