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==References== * {{cite book|last=Allaben|first=Frank|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vEQAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA65|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2vEQAQAAMAAJ|chapter=Original Document: Banneker's Appeal to Jefferson for Emancipation|title=The National Magazine: A Journal Devoted To American History: Vol. XVII, November, 1892 β April, 1893|year=1893|pages=65β73|location=New York|publisher=The National History Company|lccn=sf89099051|oclc=608678167|access-date=January 19, 2021|via=[[Google Books]]}} * {{cite book|last=Arnebeck|first=Bob|year=1991|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/throughfierytria00arne/page/33/mode/1up|chapter=Chapter 5. Heavy Rain and Thick Mists|url=https://archive.org/details/throughfierytria00arne/page/n6/mode/1up|title=Through a Fiery Trial: Building Washington, 1790β1800|pages=33β42|place=Lanham, Maryland|publisher=Madison Books. Distributed by National Network|isbn=0-8191-7832-2|lccn=90042343|oclc=859155254|access-date=October 7, 2017|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite journal|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|author-link=Silvio Bedini|url=https://archive.org/stream/bulletinunitedst2311964unit#page/22/mode/2up|title=Early American Scientific Instruments and Their Makers: The Mathematical Practitioners: Benjamin Banneker|place=Washington, D.C.|publisher=[[National Museum of American History|Smithsonian Institution Museum of History and Technology]]|year=1964|pages=22β25|lccn=64062352|oclc=999972|access-date=October 7, 2017|journal=United States National Museum Bulletin|number=231|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite journal|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|url=http://www.boundarystones.org/articles/rchs_1969.pdf|title=Benjamin Banneker and the Survey of the District of Columbia, 1791|journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society|publisher=[[Historical Society of Washington, D.C.|Columbia Historical Society]]|location=Washington, D.C.|volume=69/70|pages=7β30|year=1969|jstor=40067703|oclc=3860814|access-date=January 13, 2013|via=boundarystones.org|archive-date=October 7, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007223056/http://www.boundarystones.org/articles/rchs_1969.pdf}} * {{cite book|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|year=1972|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00silv/page/n8/mode/1up|title=The Life of Benjamin Banneker|place=New York|publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons|Scribner]]. Republished by Landmark Enterprises, [[Rancho Cordova, California]], 1984.|isbn=0910845204|oclc=593414330|lccn=78162755|access-date=August 29, 2019|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite journal|last=Bedini |first=Silvio A.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40072968|title=The Survey of the Federal Territory: Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker|journal=Washington History|jstor=40072968|issn=1042-9719|oclc=5544043370|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=[[Historical Society of Washington, D.C.]]|volume=3|date=SpringβSummer 1991|number=1|pages=76β95}} * {{cite encyclopedia|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WIMYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Banneker%2C+Benjamin%22|editor1-last=Salzman|editor1-first=Jack|editor2-first=David Lionel|editor2-last=Smith|editor3-first=Cornel|editor3-last=West|title=Banneker, Benjamin|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History|edition=1st|volume=1: Aar-Cit|year=1996a|pages=251β253|lccn=95033607|oclc=847445826|isbn=0028973453|location=New York|publisher=[[Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan Library Reference]]|via=[[Google Books]]}} * {{cite encyclopedia|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|editor-first=Colin A.|editor-last=Palmer|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/mathematics-biographies/benjamin-banneker|edition=2nd|title=Banneker, Benjamin (updated bibliography)|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History|location=[[Detroit, Michigan]]|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Thomson Gale]] (2008); [[Cengage|Boston, Massachusetts: CENGAGE]]|oclc=938830525|access-date=March 16, 2020|year=1996b|via=[[Encyclopedia.com]]|archive-date=June 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623164452/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/mathematics-biographies/benjamin-banneker|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofbenjaminba00bedi/page/n7/mode/1up|year=1999|title=The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science|edition=2nd|location=Baltimore|publisher=[[Maryland Center for History and Culture|Maryland Historical Society]]|isbn=0-938420-59-3|oclc=894558859|lccn=98022848|access-date=September 11, 2019|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} ** {{cite journal|last=Toscano|first=Patrick|date=March 2000|url=https://archives.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=567|title=Book Review: Bedini, Silvio A. (1999), "The Life of Benjamin Banneker: The First African-American Man of Science", 2nd ed., Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society|journal=Professional Surveyor Magazine|volume=20|number=3|location=[[Frederick, Maryland]]|publisher=Flatdog Media, Inc.|access-date=September 12, 2019|archive-date=September 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912002204/https://archives.profsurv.com/magazine/article.aspx?i=567|url-status=live}} * {{cite encyclopedia|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|editor1-first=Charles Coulston|editor1-last=Gillispie|editor2-first=Frederic Lawrence|editor2-last=Holmes|editor3-first=Noretta|editor3-last=Koertge|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Benjamin_Banneker.aspx|title=Banneker, Benjamin|encyclopedia=[[Dictionary of Scientific Biography|Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography]]|year=2008|isbn=9780684315591|oclc=187313311|location=[[Detroit, Michigan]]|publisher=[[Charles Scribner's Sons]]; [[Cengage|Boston, Massachusetts: CENGAGE]]|via=[[Encyclopedia.com]]|access-date=March 16, 2020|archive-date=February 23, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180223234416/https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/mathematics-biographies/benjamin-banneker|url-status=live}} * {{cite web|url=https://friendsofbenjaminbanneker.com/history/benjamin-banneker-2/|title=Benjamin Banneker Timeline|work=Benjamin Banneker|date=January 16, 2019 |publisher=[[Mythology_of_Benjamin_Banneker#Historical_marker_in_Benjamin_Banneker_Historical_Park,_Baltimore_County,_Maryland|Benjamin Banneker Historical Park & Museum]]|location=[[Oella, Maryland]]|access-date=September 12, 2019|via=[[WordPress]]|archive-date=September 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912012421/https://friendsofbenjaminbanneker.com/history/benjamin-banneker-2/|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last=Bowling|first=Kenneth R.|year=1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zwBPAAAAMAAJ|title=Creating the federal city, 1774β1800 : Potomac fever|publisher=American Institute of Architects Press|series=Octagon research series|place=Washington, D.C.|isbn=9781558350113|lccn=88016810|oclc=18068942|access-date=October 7, 2017|via=[[Google Books]]}} * {{cite book|last=Cerami|first=Charles A.|year=2002|url=https://archive.org/details/banneker00char/page/n5/mode/1up|title=Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot|place=New York|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=0585423946|lccn=2001046960|oclc=50739343|access-date=September 19, 2019|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} ** {{cite web|last=Corrigan|first=Mary Beth|date=April 2003|title=Benjamin Banneker: Fabled Genius Considered": Review of Cerami, Charles A. (2002), ''Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot'', New York: John Wiley & Sons ''"H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences: H-Net Maryland''|url=http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=7440|work=H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online|location=[[Lansing, Michigan]]|publisher=MATRIX: The Center for Humane Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online: Department of History: [[Michigan State University]]|access-date=July 8, 2013|archive-date=September 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120905204059/http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=7440|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last1=Crew|first1=Harvey W.|last2=Webb|first2=William Bensing|last3=Wooldridge|first3=John|year=1892|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/centennialhistor00crew/page/87/mode/1up|chapter=Chapter IV. Permanent Capital Site Selected|url=https://archive.org/details/centennialhistor00crew/page/n6/mode/1up|title=Centennial History of the City of Washington, D.C.|pages=87β107|publisher=United Brethren Publishing House|location=[[Dayton, Ohio]]|lccn=06028029|oclc=612798983|access-date=May 7, 2009|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite book|last=Drake|first=Milton|year=1962|url=https://archive.org/details/almanacsofunited00drak/page/n8/mode/1up|title=Almanacs of the United States|volume=Part I|oclc=1024176442|location=New York|publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield#Imprints|Scarecrow Press]]|access-date=June 7, 2020|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite journal|last=Glawe|first=Eddie|url=http://www.xyht.com/professional-surveyor-archives/feature-benjamin-banneker/|title=Feature: Benjamin Banneker|journal=Professional Surveyor Magazine|date=February 13, 2014|volume=39|issue=6|publisher=Flatdog Media, Inc.|access-date=February 18, 2018|via=xyHt|archive-date=January 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130044246/http://www.xyht.com/professional-surveyor-archives/feature-benjamin-banneker/|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|last=Graham|first=Shirley|author-link=Shirley Graham Du Bois|year=1949|url=https://archive.org/details/yourmosthumblese00dubo/page/n8/mode/1up|title=Your Most Humble Servant|lccn=49011346|oclc=1036934508|access-date=April 15, 2020|location=New York|publisher=[[Julian Messner|Julian Messner, Inc.]]|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite web|last=Johnson|first=Richard|url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/banneker-benjamin-1731-1806/|title=Banneker, Benjamin (1731β1806)|work=Black Past|date=January 18, 2018|publisher=BlackPast.org|access-date=July 22, 2020|archive-date=June 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610193716/https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/banneker-benjamin-1731-1806/|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|first1=Sidney|last1=Kaplan|first2=Emma Nogrady|last2=Kaplan|year=1989|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/blackpresenceint00kap_ktt/page/132/mode/1up|url=https://archive.org/details/blackpresenceint00kap_ktt/page/n6/mode/1up|chapter=Chapter V. The Emergence of Gifts and Powers: Benjamin Banneker|title=The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution|edition=revised|location=[[Amherst, Massachusetts]]|publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Press]]|pages=132β151|lccn=88022111|oclc=43475547|isbn=0870236628|access-date=February 29, 2020|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite book|last=Latrobe|first=John H. B.|author-link=John H. B. Latrobe|url=https://archive.org/details/memoirbenjaminb00socigoog/page/n7/mode/1up|title=Memoir of Benjamin Banneker: Read before the Maryland Historical Society at the Monthly Meeting, May 1, 1845|location=Baltimore, Maryland|publisher=Printed by John D. Toy|year=1845|lccn=rc01003345|oclc=85791076|access-date=February 29, 2020|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/selectionsfromle00maso#page/n9/mode/2up|title=Selections from the letters and manuscripts of the late Susanna Mason; with a brief memoir of her life, by her daughter|last=Mason|first=Rachel|year=1836|location=Philadelphia|publisher=Rackliff & Jones, Printers, S.W. corner of George & Swanwick Streets|lccn=unk83001993|oclc=786297945|access-date=March 1, 2018|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite journal|last=McHenry|first=James C. |author-link=James McHenry|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=osu.32435073185951&view=1up&seq=193|title=A letter from Mr. James McHenry, to messrs. Goddard and Angel, containing particulars respecting Benjamin Banneker, a free negro|journal=[[The American Museum (magazine)|The American Museum, or Universal Magazine]]|volume=12|number=2|date=September 1792|pages=185β187|lccn=unk80015153|oclc=367988208|location=Philadelphia|publisher=[[Mathew Carey]]|access-date=June 14, 2020|via=[[HathiTrust|HathiTrust Digital Library]]}} * {{cite book|last=Morrison|first=Hugh Alexander|url=https://archive.org/details/preliminarycheck00morr/page/n6/mode/1up|title=Preliminary Check List of American Almanacs: 1639β1800|year=1907|publisher=[[United States Government Publishing Office|Government Printing Office]]|oclc=577096527|lccn=06035021|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=December 31, 2018|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite thesis|last=Perot|first=Sandra W.|date=February 2014|title=Reconstructing Molly Welsh: Race, Memory and the Story of Benjamin Banneker's Grandmother|type=M.A.|location=[[Amherst, Massachusetts]]|publisher=[[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]|work=Masters Theses 1911 β February 2014: Paper 210|oclc=314413559}} :*{{cite thesis|url=http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/210/|title=Introduction and abstract.|journal=Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014 |date=January 2008 |access-date=November 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150929100518/http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/210/|archive-date=September 29, 2015|url-status=live|via=ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst|last1=Perot |first1=Sandra }} :*{{cite thesis|url=http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=theses|title=Full text|access-date=March 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151001211829/http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1215&context=theses|archive-date=October 1, 2015|url-status=live|via=ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst}} * {{cite journal|last=Phillips|first=P. Lee|year=1917|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSkkCeq5R1AC&pg=PA114|title=The Negro, Benjamin Banneker; Astronomer and Mathematician, Plea for Universal Peace (Read before the Society, April 18, 1916)|journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society|publisher=[[Historical Society of Washington, D.C.|Columbia Historical Society]]|location=Washington, D.C.|volume=20|pages=114β120|issn=0897-9049|lccn=18019397|oclc=1564221|access-date=April 15, 2009|via=[[Google Books]]}} * {{cite journal|last=Stewart|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GgULOzNSafMC&pg=PA48|title=Early Maps and Surveyors of the City of Washington, D.C.|year=1899|journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society|publisher=[[Historical Society of Washington, D.C.|Columbia Historical Society]]|location=Washington, D.C.|volume=2|pages=48β71|issn=0897-9049|oclc=40326234|access-date=August 15, 2011|via=[[Google Books]]}} * {{cite book|last=Tise|first=Larry E.|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1F1H2KUj80C&pg=PA213|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T1F1H2KUj80C&pg=printsec|chapter=Africans in the Land of Liberty: African-American Enlightenment|title=The American Counterrevolution: A Retreat from Liberty, 1783β1800|pages=213β215|location=[[Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania]]|publisher=Stackpole Books|year=1998|isbn=0585347220|oclc=47009059|access-date=April 22, 2020|via=[[Google Books]]|archive-date=June 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170616001926/https://books.google.com/books?id=T1F1H2KUj80C&pg=PA213|url-status=live}} * {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sketchoflifeofbe00tyso/page/n4/mode/1up|title=A sketch of the life of Benjamin Banneker: from notes taken in 1836: read by J. Saurin Norris, before the Maryland Historical Society, October 5th, 1854|first=Martha Ellicott|last=Tyson|location=Baltimore, Maryland|publisher=Printed for the [[Maryland Center for History and Culture|Maryland Historical Society]] by John D. Toy|lccn=rc01003357|oclc=85794847|access-date=October 7, 2017|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite book|author=United States Army Center of Military History|author-link=United States Army Center of Military History|year=1985|url=https://archive.org/details/jamesmchenryprep00wash/|title=James McHenry|series=Soldier-Statesmen of the Constitution: A Bicentennial Series|id=CMH Pub 71-4|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=United States Army Center of Military History|oclc=1047471045|access-date=December 6, 2020|via=[[Internet Archive]]}} * {{cite book|editor=Whiteman, Maxwell|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112037299119;view=1up;seq=5|title=Banneker's Almanack and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord 1793; being The First After Bisixtile or Leap Year and Bannekeer's Almanac, For the Year 1795, Being the Third After Leap Year: Afro-American History Series: Rhistoric Publication No. 202| series=Rhistoric publications |edition=1969 Reprint|publisher=Rhistoric Publications, a division of Microsurance Inc.|lccn=72077039|oclc=907004619|access-date=June 14, 2017|via=[[HathiTrust|HathiTrust Digital Library]]}} * {{cite book|first=George Washington|last=Williams|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/historynegrorac05willgoog/page/n418/mode/1up|url=https://archive.org/details/historynegrorac05willgoog|title=History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880: Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens; Together with a Preliminary Consideration of the Unity of the Human Family, an Historical Sketch of Africa, and an Account of the Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia|chapter=Banneker The Astronomer|pages=386β398|year=1882|location=New York|publisher=[[G. P. Putnam's Sons#History|G. P. Putnam's Sons: The Knickerbocker Press]]|lccn=09003580|oclc=6510556|access-date=October 7, 2017|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}
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