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- 1 2 3 John Russell Young, Memorial History of the City of Philadelphia: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1895, Volume 1 (1895), p. 156.
- 1 2 3 John Thomas Scharf, History of Delaware : 1609-1888: General history (1888), p. 526.
- ↑ C. A. Weslager, Delaware's Forgotten Folk: The Story of the Moors and Nanticokes (2012), p. 75.
- ↑ John Russell Young, Memorial History of the City of Philadelphia: From Its First Settlement to the Year 1895, Volume 1 (1895), p. 156; quoting a letter from Logan to Penn, July 4, 1706. Penn-Logan Correspondance, II., 35.