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- ↑ A Catalogue of the Society of Brothers in Unity, Yale College, Founded 1768, Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841, p. 34.
- ↑ http://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/antebellum/sc_antebellum_18th_general_assembly_members.html List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1808
- ↑ http://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/antebellum/sc_antebellum_26th_general_assembly_members.html List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1824-5
- ↑ http://www.carolana.com/SC/1800s/antebellum/sc_antebellum_31st_general_assembly_members.html List of members of the South Carolina legislature for 1834-5
- ↑ The New-England Magazine, Volume 4 (1833), p. 71
- ↑ Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Volume 1, E. Croswell, 1833, p. 26
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140714123511/http://www.e-familytree.net/F211/F211215.htm Archive of William Dubose genealogical info
- ↑ Debow's Review, vol. 4, New Orleans: Office of the Commercial Review, 1847, p. 338
- ↑ https://south-carolina-plantations.com/berkeley/bluford.html Bluford Plantation info
- ↑ A Contribution to the History of the Huguenots of South Carolina, "Reminiscences of St. Stephen's Parish, Craven County", Samuel DuBose, New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1887, p.52
- ↑ Register of Carolina Huguenots, Vol. 3, Marion - Villepontoux, Horry Frost Prioleau, Edward Lining Manigault, Lulu.com, 2010, p. 1338-1342
