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- ↑ Folsom, George (1830). History of Saco and Biddeford, with Notices of Other Early Settlements, and of the Proprietary Governments in Maine, Including the Provinces of New Somersetshire and Lygonia. Heritage Books. pp. 292–. ISBN 9780917890475 . Retrieved 1 August 2013.
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