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- ↑ "America and West Indies: December 1696, 11-20 | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. BHO/British History Online. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
- ↑ Office, Great Britain Public Record (1908). Calendar of State Papers: Colonial Series ... London: Longman. pp. 486–487. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
- 1 2 Jameson, John Franklin (1923). Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period: Illustrative Documents. Macmillan.
- ↑ Brennan, Stephen (2011). The Best Pirate Stories Ever Told. New York: Skyhorse Publishing Inc. ISBN 9781616082185.
- ↑ Marley, David (2010). Pirates of the Americas. California: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781598842012.
- ↑ Boogaerde, Pierre Van den (2009). Shipwrecks of Madagascar. New York: Strategic Book Publishing. ISBN 9781612043395.
