18 The leaders of this agitation were the Alexander and Polk clans. See Norris W. Preyer, Hezekiah Alexander and the Revolution in the Backcountry (Charlotte, 1987), 58, 72, 88.
19Select Letters on the Trade and Government of America, and the Principles of Law and Polity, Applied to the American Colonies (London, 1774); Edmund S. Morgan and Helen M. Morgan, The Stamp Act Crisis (New York, 1953), 14-18.