William Vernon

b. Newport, RI, January 17, 1719
d. Newport, RI, December 22, 1806


Bibliography

"Historical Sketches of Rhode Island. no. 3. William Vernon," Newport Mercury, 5 March, 12 March, 19 March, 26 March, 18 June, 25 June 1853. 

"William Vernon," Newport Mercury, 31 March 1877. 

Albion, Robert Greenhalgh.  "Vernon, William" in Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 19 New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1936. 251,252. 

Boatner, Mark M. III. Landmarks of the American Revolution. Harrisburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1973. 439. 

Craven, Wesley Frank. "William H. Vernon, A.B.," Newport History: Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society. Newport: Newport Historical Society. vol. 52 part 4 no. 176 (Fall 1979): 118-124. 

Downing, Antoinette F. and Vincent J. Scully, Jr. The Architectural Heritage of Newport, Rhode Island 1640-1915. 2nd ed. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1967. 119,454, plate 151. 

Mason, George Champlin. Annals of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, R.I. Newport: Redwood Library, 1891. 84. 

Mason, George C. Newport Illustrated in a Series of Pen & Pencil Sketches. Newport: C.E. Hammett, Jr., Publisher [1871]. 33-35. 

Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island. vol. 2 Chicago: J.H. Beers & Co., 1908, 813. 

The Biographical Cyclopedia of Representative Men of Rhode Island. Providence: National Biographical Publishing Co., 1881. 106 (Vernon, William). 

The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 8 New York: James T. White & Company, 1898, 62,63. 




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