Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle, Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 275, citing An Authentic and Particular Account of the Life of Francis Burdett Personel, Written by Himself, Who was Executed at New-York, September 10th, 1773; in the Twenty-sixth Year of His Age, for the Murder of Mr. Robert White (New York: n.p., 1773).