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- 1 2 3 4 Johnson, Charles (1724). The history of the pyrates: containing the lives of Captain Mission. Captain Bowen. Captain Kidd ... and their several crews. London: T. Woodward. Retrieved 26 July 2017.
- 1 2 Riley, Sandra; Peters, Thelma B. (2000). Homeward Bound: A History of the Bahama Islands to 1850 with a Definitive Study of Abaco in the American Loyalist Plantation Period. Miami FL: RILEY HALL. p. 75. ISBN 9780966531022.
- ↑ "Ten Persons Tried at Nassau - 9-10 Dec 1718 p1". baylusbrooks.com. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
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