5 Bennett Wood Green, Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech (Richmond, 1889), is still the most comprehensive survey from historical materials; particularly useful as evidence of 17th-century Virginia speech are phonetic spellings in manuscripts, court records and especially the journals of non-English speaking visitors. See Gilbert Chinard, ed., Un Français en Virginie (Baltimore, 1932).

6 Another example is mushmillion for muskmelon, which was used by Uncle Remus, and also by a Dorsetshire traveler in 1591; OED, s.v. “musk melon”; Cleanth Brooks, The Language of the American South (Athens, 1985), 8.
   The Uncle Remus stories are very interesting for students of southern speech, especially with regard to the relative role of African and English contributions. Joel Chandler Harris gave a Gullah accent to Daddy Jack, but Uncle Remus himself spoke more in the manner of the old Sussex speech, as Brooks demonstrates in detail.

7“You all” appears in Virginia servant ballads recorded during the 17th century; see “The Trappan’d Malden,” line 60, in Firth, ed., An American Garland, 53