4 Beeraan, Evolution of the Southern Backcountry, 92.

5 Oliver Hart, “Diary …,” Journal of the South Carolina Baptist Society I (1975), 94; quoted in Klein, “Rise of Planters,” 94.

6 Joseph Johnson, Traditions and Reminiscences of the American Revolution in the South (Charleston, 1851), 158-60; as quoted in Richard Maxwell Brown, The South Carolina Regulators (Cambridge, 1963), 26, whose account I follow on Richardson.