Mersenne number variant

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It appears that all numbers of the form $(6^p-1)/5$ for prime $p$ are square free and are coprime to each other. Is this true?

This seems like it might be related to Mersenne numbers, except with 6 instead of 2. For example, these numbers are prime for $p\in\{2,5,29,71,...\}$. Though I don't know if that is helpful here.