2 Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 49; J. Dickinson to John Harriot, 10 Nov. 1719, Jonathan Dickinson Letterbook, 1715-21, HSP.
3 A. R. H. Baker and R. A. Butlin, eds., Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles (Cambridge, 1973), has chapters on English borders, Scotland and Ireland; also relevant are chapters in Thirsk, ed., Agrarian History of England and. Wales, vols. 4 and 5; these works summarize an immense literature and include extensive bibliographies.
4 Witherspoon, “Recollections,” 125.
5 For cowpens in Northumberland see Thirsk, ed., Agrarian History of England and Wales, IV, 17,27.
6 OED, “cowpens.”