Abraham Redwood

b. Island of Antigua, April 15, 1709
d. Newport, RI, March 8, 1788

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Blanchard, Edith R.  "Redwood, Abraham" in Dictionary of American Biography.  vol. 15 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1935, 444-445. 

Mason, George Champlin. Annals of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, R.I. Newport: Redwood Library, 1981. 

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The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. Providence: National Biographical Publishing Co., 1881. 75 (Redwood, Abraham). 

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