2 Governor William Bull to Board of Trade, 30 Nov. 1770; reprinted in Merrens, ed., Colonial South Carolina Scene, 254-70.

3“The Presbyterians are the most numerous,” Informations Concerning the Province of North Carolina, Addressed to Emigrants from the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland (Glasgow, 1773); reprinted in Wm. K. Boyd, ed., Some Eighteenth Century Tracts Concerning North Carolina (Raleigh, 1927), 450.

4 Thomas P. Ford, “Status, Residence and Fundamentalist Religious Beliefs in the Southern Appalachians,” SF 39 (1960), 41-49.