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- ↑ "HOW PENN DIVIDED HIS VAST HOLDINGS OF LAND". The Reading Eagle. Reading, Pennsylvania. July 21, 1932. p. 6. Retrieved March 3, 2010.
- ↑ Bean, Theodore W., ed. (1884). HISTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA, ILLUSTRATED, 1884. Philadelphia: Everts & Peck. p. 1044.
- ↑ Bean, p. 1049
- ↑ House Resolution 374
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