"Massachusetts, State Census, 1865," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MQCL-SKN : accessed 28 Apr 2014), Alfred Phinney in household of George Phinney, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts; State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 0954572.
"United States Census, 1880," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MH61-Y7M : accessed 28 Apr 2014), George Phinney, Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing sheet 443D, NARA microfilm publication T9.
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