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- ↑ Karen Paar (1999). "Witness to Empire and the Tightening of Military Control: Santa Elena's Second Spanish Occupation, 1577-1587". www.kislakfoundation.org. Chapel Hill: Jay I. Kislak Foundation. Archived from the original (Unpublished PhD diss., Department of History, University of North Carolina) on March 6, 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2017.
- ↑ Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz y Mallén (1 December 1985). Historia De Familias Cubanas. Vol. 7. Editorial Hércules. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-89729-380-8.
- ↑ Francisco Xavier de Santa Cruz y Mallén (1 December 1985). Historia De Familias Cubanas. Vol. 7. Editorial Hércules. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-89729-380-8.