1 Kercheval, Valley of Virginia, 268.
2 Alan D. Watson, “Women in Colonial North Carolina …,” NCHR 58 (1981), 1-22.
3 John Oldmixon also wrote that, throughout the backlands, “the ordinary women take care of cows, hogs, and other small cattle, make butter and cheese, spin cotton and flax, help to sow and reap corn, wind silk from the worms, gather fruit and look after the house”; The History of the British Empire in America in Alexander S. Salley, Jr., Narratives of Early Carolina (1911, New York, 1967), 372.