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- ↑ New York City Mayors Part I, page 37. Ralph J. Caliendo. January 2010. ISBN 9781450088152 . Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ↑ Dyer, Louis (1899). William Dyer, a Somerset royalist in New England. Reprint from the collections of the University of California Libraries. p. 7.
- ↑ Robinson, Christy (2014). The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 108. ISBN 9781500539467.
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