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(2) R. Lee Van Horn, Out of the Past: Prince Georgians and Their Land (Riverdale, Maryland: Prince George’s County Historical Society, 1976), 21.
(3) George Alsop, A Character of the Province of Maryland (1666), ed. Newton D. Mereness (Cleveland: The Burrow Brothers Company, 1902).
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(7) Karl Frederick Geiser, Redemptioners and Indentured Servants in the Colony and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1901), 56.