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Ancestry.com. The return of Russell Colvin : a full and veracious account of the amazing events in Vermont [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
Original data: Spargo, John,. The return of Russell Colvin : a full and veracious account of the amazing events in Vermont : how Stephen and Jesse Boorn, two brothers, were accused, arrested, indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to die by hanging for the wilful murder of Russell Colvin of Manchester, having confessed the crime : how, while the condemned men languished in prison, it was proved that Colvin had not been murdered, but was alive and in good health and how he returned to Manchester and saved the unfortunate doomed men from a terrible fate : the story re-told for the edification and entertainment of the public. Bennington, Vt.: Bennington Historical Museum & Art Gallery, 1945.