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- ↑ Veit, Richard F. "John Solomon Teetzel and the Anglo-German Gravestone Carving Tradition of 18th Century Northwestern New Jersey" in Markers XVII: Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone Studies. (2000), 124–161.
- ↑ Chambers, Theodore Frelinghuysen. The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies. (Dover, New Jersey, Dover Printing Company, 1895), 631 ff.
- 1 2 3 Schaeffer, Casper M.D. (and Johnson, William M.). Memoirs and Reminiscences: Together with Sketches of the Early History of Sussex County, New Jersey. (Hackensack, New Jersey: Privately Printed, 1907), passim.
- ↑ Wintermute, Jacob Perry. The Wintermute Family History. (Columbus, Ohio: The Champlin Press, 1900).
