1. Records of Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in PENNSYLVANIA BIRTHS, Lancaster County, 1723-1777, John T. Humphrey, Humphrey Publications, Washington D.C., 1997. Also a more complete translation by Pastor Frederick S. Weiser, 1984.
 
2. Records of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in PENNSYLVANIA BIRTHS, Lancaster County, 1723-1777, John T. Humphrey, Humphrey Publications, Washington D.C., 1997.
 
3. Pastoral records of the Reverand John Casper Stoever.
 
4. Records of Holy Trinity (Old Swedes) Lutheran Church, Wilmington, Delaware in Deleware Genealogical Society Magazine, 2(4), October 1984.
 
5. Records of St. Stephen's Parish Church, Cecil County, Maryland at the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Maryland.
 
6. Skiles genealogy at: http://dcbeta.ecenter.smu.edu/bskinner/genealogy/skiles/tskilesjr.html
 
7. Jones, Henry Z Jr., The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, Privately Published, Universal City, California, Volume 1, 1985.
 
8. Knittle, Walter Allen Ph.D., Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration: A British Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1965.
 
9. Historical Atlas & Guide, Rand McNalley, USA, 1991.
 
10. "Family history of Lightner Family and others of the Paradise Township, Lancaster Co., Pa. region", attributed to Leah Lightner Dale and transcribed by Martha Myer in 1992-3 from the original manuscript at the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society.
 
11. "A New Index: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Before the Federal Census; Volume 4; Index to the 1718-1726 Tax Records of Chester County Relating to Areas Later Part of Lancaster County", Gary T. Hawbaker and Clyde L. Groff, 1985.
 
12. "History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, with Biographical Sketches of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men", Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans, Everts & Peck, Philadelphia, 1883.