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- ↑ Durnin, Richard G.. "For Piety, Virtue and Useful Knowledge: Maine’s Eighteenth-Century Academies." Maine History 11, 2 (1971): 58-59. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainehistoryjournal/vol11/
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