1. “Sally (Sarah) Sayward Barrell Keating Wood,” in Maine Writers Index, Waterboro Public Library, available online at www.waterborolibrary.org/maineaut/tz.htm#swood (accessed July 29, 2005).
2. Jonathan Gray, ed., Welsh Ceramics in Context, Part 1 (Swansea: Royal Institution of South Wales, 2003), pp. 124–31.
3. Hap Moore Antique Auctions, York, Maine, May 18, 2003.
4. Maine Writers Research Club, comp., Historic Churches and Homes of Maine (Portland, Me.: Falmouth Book House, 1937), p. 74.
5. Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood to her father, Nathaniel Barrell, December 7, 1804, Blaisdell Collection, Maine Historical Society.
6. Doris R. Marston, “A Lady of Maine: Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, 1759–1855” (master’s thesis, University of New Hampshire, 1970), p. 49 (copy in the Maine Historical Society Library, Portland).
7. Charles A. Sayward, The Sayward Family: Being the History and Genealogy of Henry Sayward of York and His Descendants (Ipswich, Mass.: Independent Press, E. G. Hull, 1890), pp. 131–37.
8. Historic Churches and Homes of Maine, p. 72.
9. Charles Edward Banks, History of York, Maine, Successively Known as Bristol (1632), Agamenticus (1641), Gorgeana (1642), and York (1652).... 2 vols. (Boston: [Calkins Press], 1931), 1:61.
10. Marston, “Lady of Maine,” pp. 27, 28.
11. Sayward, Sayward Family, pp. 65–68.
12. Ibid., p. 64, quoted from the Columbian Centinel, June 3, 1797.
13. Banks, History of York, Maine, 1: 398.
14. Marston, “Lady of Maine,” pp. 101–2.
15. Ibid., pp. 102–3.
16. Ibid., pp. 93, 97.
17. Karen A. Weyler, “Profile: Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood, 1758–1855,” in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 15, no. 2 (1998): 209.
18. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, “‘From the Fair to the Brave’: Spheres of Womanhood in Federal Maine,” in Agreeable Situations: Society, Commerce and Art in Southern Maine, 1780–1830, edited by Laura Fecych Sprague (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1987), p. 215.
19. “Sally (Sarah) Sayward Barrell Keating Wood,” in Maine Writers Index.
20. Banks, History of York, Maine, 2:406.
21. Weyler, “Profile,” pp. 204–5.
22. Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood to her brother, Jonathan Sayward Barrell, August 28, 1811, Blaisdell Collection, Maine Historical Society, Portland.
23. Fannie Scott Chase, Wiscasset in Pownalborough: A History of the Shire Town and the Salient Historical Features of the Territory between the Sheepscot and Kennebec Rivers (Wiscasset, Me.: [Southworth-Anthoensen Press], 1941), p. 573.
24. Henry E. Dunnack, The Maine Book (Augusta, Me.: N.p., 1920), p. 146.