1“A Memorandum of M. Austin’s Journey from the Lead Mines in the County of Wythe in the State of Virginia to the Lead Mines in the Province of Louisiana West of the Mississippi, 1796-1797,” AHR 5 (1899-1900), 525-26.

2 In South Carolina, from 1760 to 1765, there were about 2,500 applications for land, a total of 525,000 acres. The average grant was a little larger than 200 acres. But many of these grants went to petitioners who were already landowners. See Robert L. Meriwether, The Expansion of South Carolina (1940, rpt. Philadelphia, 1974), 257-59.