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- ↑ Barnes, Robert W., ed. (1999). British Roots of Maryland Families. Vol. 1. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. pp. 430–431.
- ↑ Gust Skordas, The Early Settlers of Maryland: An Indes to Names of Immigrants compiled for Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland.(Genealogical Publishing COmpany Baltimore 1968)p. 470
- ↑ Sharon J. Doliante, Maryland and Virginia Colonials: Genealogies of Some Colonial Families (Genealogical Publishing Co., In. Baltimore 1991) p. 893
- ↑ Arnett, Earl; Brugger, Robert J.; Papernfuse, Edward C., eds. (1999). Maryland: A New Guide to the Old Line State. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 40.
- ↑ Doliante p. 899
- ↑ https://www.ducks.org/conservation/conservation-projects/trent-hall-farm-pautuxent-river-watershed