David Guion, “The Stoughton Musical Society: Early New England Music’s Savior,” https://music.allpurposeguru.com/2024/03/the-stoughton-musical-society-early-new-england-musics-savior/

William F. Hanna, “The Story of Avon,” Chapter 4, https://www.avon-ma.gov/about/pages/story-avon.

Donald Arthur Nitz, Collective time keeping: Community musical societies in Massachusetts to 1840, (PhD. diss., Boston University, 1964), https://open.bu.edu/bitstream/handle/2144/34636/Nitz_Donald_1964_web.pdf?sequence=1

The Old Stoughton Musical Society, Website, https://oldstoughtonmusicalsociety.org/index.htm

1790 Census: Return of the Whole Number of Persons within the Several Districts of the United States, https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1793/dec/number-of-persons.html

Carroll D. Wright, Comparative Wages, Prices, and Cost of Living: (from the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics of Labor, for 1885), https://www.google.com/books/edition/Comparative_Wages_Prices_and_Cost_of_Liv/xA0XAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Massachusetts+Bureau+of+Statistics+of+Labor,+for+1885.