James Driscoll House - Credits and Research Sources

Research Sources

  1. “Rhode Island SP Warren Waterfront Historic District“, National Register of Historic Places , National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior – National Archives Catalog, National Archives Identifier: 41374806,  p.4, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41374806 (accessed 10/18/2017); Warren, Rhode Island Statewide Preservation Report B-W-1, Rhode Island Preservation Commission, Providence, 1975, p.56; Warren Preservation Society, http://www.preservewarren.org/p/plaqueing-program.html, accessed 10/2/2017 
  2. Warren Town Hall Records, Volume 5, pg 239, Child/Driscoll sale of the land dated July 10, 1806. 
  3. The Notorious Triangle, Jay Coughtry, p. 263; SlaveVoyage Database, Voyage #36552, David Eltis, http://slavevoyages.org/voyage/36552/variables, Accessed 10/2/2017.
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