1 Kercheval, Valley of Virginia, 196, 253; Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 34, 173.

2 Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 34, 173, 176, 196; Thomas Anburey, Travels (2 vols., London, 1789), 340, 376; William Eddis, Letters from America (1792, Cambridge, 1969), 57; “Observations on Several Voyages and Travels to America,” WMQ3 15 (1958), 146.

3 John Gough, The Manners and Customs of Westmorland (Kendal, 1827), 20; also Ulster Journal of Archueology II (1854), 204; Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 176, 34, passim.

4 Redcliffe N. Salaman, The History and Social Influence of the Potato (Cambridge, 1985); for a first-hand account of the introduction of the potato to the backcountry by North British immigrants, see James Ellerton, Journal, 19 March 1740, in Merrens, ed., Colonial South Carolina Scene, 132; potatoes were not unknown in other food-cultures of British America, but they were not staples.