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Archival Records & Primary Sources
- National Archives and Records Administration. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, ca. 1800–ca. 1900. Record Group 15, publication M804. Applications R995 (Spencer Bolton, also Boulton), R1669 (Jim Capers), R5507 (Adam Ivey), R8113 (George Perkins), and R8105 (Jacob Perkins).
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Audited Accounts of Revolutionary War Claims. Series S108092. Josiah Cockfield, Account 1329-A, Book G. Columbia, SC.
- South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Accounts Audited of Claims Growing Out of the Revolution, series S108092. Spencer Bolton (Boulton), account 586, reel 10, frame 515. Columbia, SC.
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Digital Collections, Historical Markers & Online Research
- Florence County Historical Commission. “Joshua Braveboy Plantation.” South Carolina Historical Marker No. 21–35, erected 2013. Historical Marker Database. www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=222993
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Published Historical Works
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- Edgar, Walter.Partisans and Redcoats: The Southern Conflict That Turned the Tide of the American Revolution. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
- Edgar, Walter. South Carolina: A History. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.
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- Moultrie, William. Memoirs of the American Revolution, So Far as It Related to the States of North and South Carolina, and Georgia. 2 vols. New York: David Longworth, 1802.
- O’Kelley, Patrick. Nothing but Blood and Slaughter: The Revolutionary War in the Carolinas. 4 vols. Booklocker.com, 2004–2005.
- Simms, William Gilmore. The Life of Francis Marion. New York: H. G. Langley, 1844.
- Weir, Robert M. Colonial South Carolina: A History. Millwood, NY: KTO Press, 1983.