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Sources consulted for the biography of:Noah Davis (1804–1867)
Primary Sources
- Noah Davis, A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, a Colored Man, Written by Himself, at the Age of Fifty-four (1859), with frontispiece portrait and month and year of birth on p. 9.
- United States Census Schedules, Baltimore City, Md., 1860 (listed as Davies, with wife's name and with five children age seven and under born in Maryland), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- George F. Adams, A Brief Sketch of the Life and Character of the Late William Crane, of Baltimore (1868), 26–29.
Secondary Sources
- George F. Adams, History of Baptist Churches in Maryland Connected with the Maryland Baptist Union Association (1885), 101, 132–133.
- A. Briscoe Koger, Negro Baptists of Maryland (1946), 4, 8, 34–35, 42, 59, 65–66.
- Michael Patrick Williams, "The Black Evangelical Ministry in the Antebellum Border States: Profiles of Elders John Berry Meachum and Noah Davis," Foundations 21 (1978): 225–241.
Newspapers
- New-York Commercial Advertiser, December 24, 1856
- Baltimore Sun, July 17, 1858
- Springfield [Mass.] Daily Republican, August 11, 1860
- African Repository 39 (1863): 315
Obituary
- Baltimore Sun, April 9, 1867
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