8 For a virtually identical description of Scots-Irish wedding customs in Londonderry, New Hampshire, see Alice Morse Earle, Customs and Fashions in Old New England (1893, Rutland, Vt., 1973), 74; see also North Carolina Folklore, II, 238.
9 Kercheval, Valley of Virginia, 266-69; John Lewis Peyton, History of Augusta County, Virginia (Staunton, Va., 1882), 44-46; Julia Cherry Spruill, Women’s Life and Work in the Southern Colonies, (1938, New York 1972), 110-11.
10 Robert Anderson, “The Codbeck Weddin’,” in Westmorland and Cumberland Dialect, 262-63.
11 One Cumberland man recorded in much detail the dowry for his daughter; “Sep. 20 [1677], paid unto my son in law [Edward] Wilson in part of his wife’s portion £10 … March 18 [1678] paid my son [in law] Wilson more of his wife’s portion 9/0/0 … May 17 [1678] more of his portion £20. … June 28 [1678] more of his portion £20. …” Danlie Fleming Accounts, WD/R/box 199, CUMROK.