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- ↑ Memorials of the family of Skene of Skene; William Forbes Skene, D.C.L., LL.D.; Printed for the New Spalding Club, 1887, p. 78
- ↑ "Skene, Alexander, of Newtyle". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/69912.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ NJFreemason.net, History of the Grand Lodge of New Jersey [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ The Grants, Concessions and Original Constitutions of the Province of New Jersey, Aaron Leaming and Jacob Spicer; W. Bradford, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1758. p. 457
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