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- ↑ Vital records of Saugus, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849. Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute. 1907. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ↑ The Register of the Lynn Historical Society for the Year 1903. Lynn, Massachusetts: Frank S. Whitten. 1905. p. 69. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ↑ Huard, D. Hamilton, ed. (1888). History of Essex County, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co. pp. 411–412. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ↑ Duane Hamilton Huard, ed. (1888). "Saugus". History of Essex County, Massachusetts. Philadelphia: J. W. Lewis & Co. ISBN 9785873700752.
- ↑ Atherton, Horace H. (1916). History of Saugus, Massachusetts. Citizen's Committee of the Saugus Board of Trade. pp. 81–82. Retrieved 25 April 2022.
- ↑ "Sketch of Saugus". The Bay State Monthly. John N. McClintock and Company. 1885. p. 149. Retrieved 25 April 2022.