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- ↑ Breitbard, Gail Ann (1970). Notes on the early history in this country of the Straus (Stroop, Stroup, Straup, Strubb, Strupp, Strope, etc.) family. Miami: self-published.
- ↑ Knittle, Walter Allen (1937). Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores. Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co.
