Source Information

Ancestry.com. Sketch of Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois and of the slavery struggle of 1823-4 [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Washburne, E. B.. Sketch of Edward Coles, second governor of Illinois and of the slavery struggle of 1823-4. Chicago: Jansen, McClurg & Co., 1882.