1. Elisha Baker & Polly to John Hutchings, deed, 5 May 1816, Washington County, Missouri Territory.
2. Lawrence County, Arkansas tax index, 1816; Bellevue-Beautiful View and Lawrence County settlement histories.
3. Elisha Baker to Hewitt Burt, bill of sale, 22 March 1821 (recorded 6 August 1821), pp. 19–20.
4. Elisha Baker to Thomas Baker, deed of gift, 5 April 1821, recorded Lawrence County, Arkansas, 6 June 1821.
5. Lawrence County, Arkansas Circuit Court minutes, 25 June 1826.
6. Land office correspondence and patent record, Recorder of Land Titles, St. Louis, 1826 and 1829.