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- 1 2 Richard Lovett. The History of the London Missionary Society, 1795-1895 vol. 2 (1899), p. 106; archive.org.
- ↑ Indian missionary directory and memorial volume Brenton Hamline Badley - 1881 "William Reeve. B. 1794. 0. Feb. 7, 1816. A. at Madras Aug. 26, 1816, and at Bellary, Sept. 27. R. to Eng. Sept. 18, 1824.1tt. ... revision of Canarese Bible. Compiled two Canarese English Dictionaries H. to Eng. Feb. 17, 1834 Connection with Society ceased, Nov. 23, 1335 Date of death unknown. "
- ↑ Reeve, William (1858). Sanderson, Daniel (ed.). A Dictionary, Canarese and english. Bangalore: Wesleyan Mission Press. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ↑ George Eyre Evans, William George Dimock Fletcher, William Kinsella, Shropshire Parish Registers: Nonconformist and Roman Catholic registers (1903), section Oswestry Old Chapel registers, p. v; archive.org.
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