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- ↑ '"The life and letters of Charles Bulfinch, architect: with other family papers" by his daughter, Ellen Susan Bulfinch (b. 1844), 1896. p. 166. "Last Sunday, I was present at the baptism of a little stranger, my daughter B.'s tenth son. It is a charming infant, about three weeks old, and that day received the name of Stephen Greenleaf, for her venerable Grandfather." Letter of Susan Bulfinch, dated July, 1809.
- ↑ The University Hymnbook J. Wilson and Son, 1896. p. 318.
- ↑ Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, June, 1892 Meeting. Boston. 1892. p. 455.
- 1 2 3 Dictionary of Hymnology by John Julian. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892. p. 191.
