11 M. Eugene Sirmans, Colonial South Carolina: A Political History, 1663-1763 (Chapel Hill, 1966); Peter H. Wood, Black Majority: Negroes in Colonial South Carolina from 1670 through the Stono Rebellion (New York, 1974); Charles Joyner, Down by the Riverside: A South Carolina Slave Community (Urbana, 1984).

12 The low country in 1790 was normally defined as the districts of Beaufort, Charleston and Georgetown. See John H. Wolfe, Jeffersonian Democracy in South Carolina (Chapel Hill, 1940), 5; Robert Mills, Statistics of South Carolina (Charleston, 1826).

13 Duane Meyer, The Highland Scots of North Carolina, 1732-1776 (Chapel Hill, 1961).

14Ibid., 119; Charles W. Dunn, Highland Settler: A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Nova Scotia (Toronto, 1953), 138.

15 Personal conversation with Charles Joyner.