Source Information

Ancestry.com. The Pennsylvania hermit [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: The Pennsylvania hermit : a narrative of the extraordinary life of Amos Wilson, who expired in a cave in the neighborhood of Harrisburg (Penn.) after having therein lived in solitary retirement for the space of nineteen years, in consequence of the ignominious death of his sister, annexed is the writings of Wilson while a recluse .... Philadelphia: Smith & Carpenter, 1981.