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Avery, Samuel Putnam (ed.) “Robert Avery” The Avery, Fairchild & Park Families (Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1919)

Baird, Mary A. Harding. Our Harding Family: A Record of the Family and Descendants of Samuel Harding (Privately Printed, 1937).

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Berry,  William, A History of Framingham, Massachusetts: Including the Plantation from 1640 to the Present Time. (Boston, MA: James Munroe & Co., 1847). This is a footnote on page 63.

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Clarke, George Kuhn. The History of Needham; 1711-1911. Including West Needham, now the Town of Wellesley (Cambridge, MA: The University Press, 1912).

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Cooke, George Willis. The History of The Clapboard Trees or the Third Parish, Dedham, Mass., 1736-1886. (Boston, MA: Geo. H. Ellis Printers, 1887)

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Fisher, Philip A. The Fisher Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of Joshua, Anthony and Cornelius Fisher of Dedham, Mass. (Everett, MA: Massachusetts Publishing Company, 1898)

Hardesty, Jared Ross, Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England, (Boston, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2019)

Hill, Don Gleason (ed) The Record of Births, Marriages and Deaths, and Intentions of Marriages in the Town of Dedham; 1635-1845, Vol 1 & 2 (Dedham, MA: The Dedham Transcript, 1886)

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