9 Ralph L. Rusk, The Literature of the Middle Western Frontier (2 vols., New York, 1925, 1962), I, 51-76.
10 The ratio of religious titles to all books was 1:4 in Edgecombe County (1733-53), and 1:6 in Bertie County (1720-74); it later fell to 1:8 in Edgecombe (1765-83), and 1:10 in Bertie (1775-83); these data are from Helen R. Watson, “The Books They Left: Some ‘Liberies’ in Edgecombe County, 1733-1783,” NCHR 46 (1971), 245-57.
11 Others testified that Jackson read only Tristram Shandy and a pamphlet on the South Sea Bubble. For two different views cf. Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson, and Remini, Andrew Jackson, I, 7; see also Arda Walker, “The Educational Training and Views of Andrew Jackson,” ETHSP, 16 (1944), 22.
12 Hughes, North Country Life in the Eighteenth Century: The North East, 37.