12 Ferguson, Northmen in Cumberland and Westmorland, 152-53; see also Dickinson and Provost, A Glossary of the Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland, xxv.
1 Woodmason, Carolina Backcountry, 16.
2 See H. B. Shurtleff, The Log Cabin Myth (Cambridge, Mass., 1939). Log houses of various types appeared at an earlier date throughout the colonies, often for special purposes such as forts and jails and garrison houses, where walls of unusual thickness were desired. Instances appear in the Archives of Maryland, II (1884), 224; North Carolina Colonial Records, I (1886), 300.
Germans also introduced log buildings, but these structures differed from the classical log cabin in many ways. See C. A. Weslager, The Log Cabin in America (New Brunswick, N.J., 1969); Henry Glassie, “The Appalachian Log Cabin,” MLW 39 (1963), 5-14; idem, “The Types of Southern Mountain Cabin,” in The Study of American Folklore, ed. Jan H. Brunwand (New York, 1968), 338-70; Fred Kniffen, “Folk Housing; Key to Diffusion,” AAAG 55 (1965), 549-77; Fred Kniffen and Henry Glassie, “Building in Wood in the Eastern United States,” GR 56 (1966), 40-66.