9 G. E. Braithwaite, “The Braithwaites,” 10, LANCSRO.

10Ibid., 153.

11 Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 39.

12 Arthur Dobbs to Board of Trade, 24 Aug. 1755, Colonial Records of North Carolina, V, 355; somewhat smaller households are reported in Alan D. Watson, “Household Size and Composition in Pre-Revolutionary North Carolina,” MQ 31 (1978), 551-69.