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- ↑ "Parish records (Archdeaconry of Rochester) / Dartford Holy Trinity parish records P110, Register of baptisms, births and burials". Medway Council. p. 6.
- ↑ Muster-Table records of HMS Reliance: both George Bass and William Martin were discharged [at Port Jackson] from the navy on May 26, 1799
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