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- ↑ Puerto Rican Poetry: A Selection from Aboriginal to Contemporary Times. Robert Márquez. University of Massachusetts Press. 2007. ISBN 9781558495623 p.55.
- ↑ Mariano Vidal Armstrong. Ponce: Notas para su historia. Comité Historia de los Pueblos. San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1986. p. 17.
- ↑ Luis Caldera Ortiz (Nuevos hallazgos sobre el origen de Ponce. Lajas, Puerto Rico: Centro de Estudios e Investigaciones del Sur Oeste de Puerto Rico. 2019. p. 37. ISBN 9781075058325), citing Dennis De Jesus Rodriguez ("La Fundación de Ponce, 1678-1692", Hereditas, Revista de Genealogía Puertorriqueña, Volumen 10, Issue 2 (Year 2009), p. 65.)
- ↑ Municipality of Ponce versus the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church in Porto Rico. Appeal from the Supreme Court of Porto Rico. No. 143. Argued 3 March 1908. Decided 1 June 1908. October Term, 1907. 210 US. Vol CCX-21. (US Supreme Court) p. 298.
- ↑ Eduardo Neuman Gandia. Verdadera y Auténtica Historia de la Ciudad de Ponce. Ponce, Puerto Rico. 1913. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña. 1987. p. 47.