Slafter, Edmund F. Memorial of John Slafter with Genealogical Record of His Descendants, Including Eight Generations. H. W. Dutton & Son, Boston, 1869. Pages 133-135 discuss the possible connection between the Shafter family and the well-documented Slafter family of New England.
Robbins, Frederick C. Vermont Historical Gazetteer: a Local History of all the Towns in the State, Vol. V. Windham County: Athens. Collated by Abby Maria Hemenway. Published by Mrs. Carrie E. H. Page, Brandon, VT, 1891. Contains a short family history written by Judge William R. Shafter and an extensive account of the family's role in plotting Athens, VT, in the late 1770s.
Shafter, Oscar L. The Life, Diary, and Letters of Oscar Lovell Shafter. Emma Shafter-Howard & Flora Haines Loughead eds., The Blair-Murdock Company, San Francisco, 1915.
California Supreme Court Historical Society. Proceedings of the Court on the Death of Ex-Justice Oscar Lovell Shafter. Transcript of November 23, 1873 California Supreme Court proceedings.
Memorial of Oscar Lovell Shafter, being words spoken at his funeral by Rev. Dr. Stebbins, etc. San Francisco, 1874. Donated to Harvard Divinity School by Rev. John D. Wells, 18 Oct 1893.
Shafter, Oscar L. An Address Before the Putney (Vt.) Temperance Society; Delivered July 3 1835. Edwin C. Church, Fayettville, 1835.
Nelson, Todd. "The Obscure Shafter Dynasty (Part 1)." Blog post to "Lessons from History" on Medium, 22 Feb 2022. First in series.
Under the Gables Newsletter. "Oscar and the Civil War" by Jack Mason, 1979. Page 6. A publication of the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History. Re-published spring 2019. The Jack Mason Museum in Marin County collects letters and ephemera relating to the Shafters dating to the 1830s.
Under the Gables Newsletter, Dec. 2018. "Those Shafter Women." A publication of the Jack Mason Museum of West Marin History.
Pacific Coast Association of the Native Sons of Vermont, Report for the Years 1879-1880 and 1880-1881. H. S. Crocker & Co., Printers, San Francisco, 1881.
Howard, Emma Shafter. Letter from Emma Shafter Howard to John Muir, 17 June 1910. Retained at the University of the Pacific archives in Stockton.
DeLand, Kyle Scott. Law for the Octopus: Land Monopoly, Property, and the Crisis of California Settler Society, 1840-1880. UC Berkeley thesis dissertation, Spring 2023.
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