13 For descriptions of ganderpulling in Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, see Henry Fearon, Sketches of America (London, 1818), 243; A. B. Longstreet, Georgia Scenes (New York, 1957), 97-105; J. P. Young, “Happenings in a White Haven Community, Shelby County, Tennessee, Fifty or More Years Ago,” THM 7 (1923), 97; Guion G. Johnson, Antebellum North Carolina: A Social History (Chapel Hill, 1937), 111-12.

14 Thomas Aldrich to Thomas Isham, 4 March 1668, ms. 596, Isham Papers, NHANTSRO.

15 Cheyne, The Dialect of Hartland, Devonshire, 17.

16 Marlow, ed., Diary of Thomas Isham, 1658-1681, 30.