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- 1 2 Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Volume II, Part II. Pelican Publishing. April 1, 1999. ISBN 978-1-56554-609-7 – via Google Books.
- ↑ "1835 Elected to Legislature in state". Mississippi Free Trader. 18 December 1835. p. 2. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ↑ Senate, Mississippi Legislature (August 14, 1836). "Journal" – via Google Books.
- ↑ "Postscript: Mr Van Norman President of the Senate". Mississippi Free Trader. 8 January 1836. p. 3. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ↑ Jones, Bernie D. (August 14, 2009). Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-race Inheritance in the Antebellum South. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2980-2 – via Google Books.
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