14 Leyburn, The Scotch Irish: A Social History, 25; Graham, The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century, 179-80.

15Ibid., 196.

16 Kercheval, Valley of Virginia, 255.

17Ibid., 253.

18 The account book of a Cumbrian “statesman” Benjamin Browne recorded many feasts and special meals. See the Browne Account Book, 1719, Browne mss., WD/TE box 8, CUMROK. For the persistence of these food ways in Appalachia during the twentieth century, see Campbell, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, 198-203.