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References
- ↑ Discover Jamaica
- ↑ Fortescue, JW (1901). Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies | British History Online (Vol.13 ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
