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For more detailed contextual and family history information about the Mitchell family, see the article 'Henry Mitchell of Mitchelltown', by Margaret Hobbs, pages 56-86 in Family Historian edited by Richard Stedman, published in 2004 by the New Zealand Society of Genealogists, PO Box 8795, Symonds Street, Auckland 1035, New Zealand.