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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Alexander Starbuck (June 2009). Nantucket Genealogies. Genealogical Publishing Com. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-8063-5106-3.
- ↑ Trent, William Peterfield; Benjamin Willis Wells (1903). Colonial Prose and Poetry. Thomas Y. Crowell & co. pp. 111.
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- 1 2 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol 16. Samuel G. Drake. 1862. pp. 269.
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- ↑ Cutter, William (1922). "American Biography: A New Cyclopedia, Volume 12".
- 1 2 Worron, Harriet B. (1881). "Trustum" and His Grandchildren. Published by the author. p. 36.
- 1 2 "Nantucket Founders Burial Ground Information". Nantucket Historical Association. Retrieved February 14, 2017.
- ↑ Jared Sparks (1844). The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author. C. Tappan. p. 543.
