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- ↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), birth record for Richard Goodell, retrieved February 26, 2014
- ↑ Jefferson County Historical Society, Transactions of the Jefferson County Historical Society, Volume 1, 1887, page 173
- ↑ Patrick Wilder, Battle of Sackett's Harbour: 1813, 1994, pages 174, 176, 178
- ↑ U.S. Army Register of Enlistments, 1798-1914, entry for Richard Goodell, retrieved February 26, 2014
- ↑ U.S. Army Adjutant General, Register of the Army of the United States, 1813, page 28
- ↑ New York Adjutant General, Annual Report, 1820, page 2132
- ↑ Richard Goodell at Find a Grave
- ↑ Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection), entry for Richard Goodell, Jr., retrieved February 26, 2014
