2 Remini, Andrew Jackson, I, 9.
3Ibid., 9.
4 Quoted in Hughes, North Country Life in the Eighteenth Century: The North East, 36-37.
5 Marquis de Chastelleux, Travels in North America in the Years 1780, 1781 and 1782 (2 vols., Chapel Hill, 1963), II, 442; these generalizations referred explicitly to “Americans” and to “Virginians,” but they were framed in the backcountry; for similar modern descriptions see Miles, The Spirit of the Mountains, 3; Margaret J. Hagood, Mothers of the South: Portraitures of the White Tenant Farm Women (New York, 1977); Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor (New York, 1982), 159.