(1) John Camden Hotten, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality; Emigrants; Religious Exiles; Political Rebels; Serving Men Sold for a Term of Years; Apprentices; Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others Who Went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 (1874; reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1983), 290, quoting A Register of Persons About to Pass Into Foreign Parts, 1637.
(2) Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New Englands Generation: The Great Migration and the Formation of Society and Culture in the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 33, 115, 139, 170.
(3) Frederick Clifton Peirce, Peirce Genealogy: Being the Record of the Posterity of John Pers, an Early Inhabitant of Watertown in New England, Who Came from Norwich, Norfolk County, England; with Notes on the History of Other Families of Peirce, Pierce, Pearce, etc. (Worcester, Massachusetts: C. Hamilton, 1880), 18.