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- ↑ Liverpool Apprenticeship Book, September 1731, William Bulkeley, son of Thomas Bulkeley, of Anglesey, in North Wales, Gent., apprenticed to Foster Cunliffe, Esq., merchant of Liverpool; International Genealogy Index, The Liverpool Memorandum Book of 1753; TSTD.
- ↑ SOME GLIMPSES OF LIVERPOOL DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. By Arthur C. Wardle, M.I.Ex. Read 18 November 1944
- ↑ Wardle, Arthur C. (1941). "The Early Liverpool privateers" (PDF). Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire. 93.
- ↑ "Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade - Database". www.slavevoyages.org.
- 1 2 History of the Liverpool Privateers and Letters of Marque, with an account of the Liverpool Slave Trade, 1744-1812. pp. 80-83. Gomer Williams. Reprint of the 1897 edition (William Heinemann (London) and Edward Howell (Liverpool), McGill University, Canada, 2004 ISBN 0-7735-2746-X
- ↑ Walsh, Lorena S. (1 December 2012). Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607-1763. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9780807895924 – via Google Books.
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