1. “From a Correspondent,” Christian Advocate and Journal (New York), 17 April, 1844.
2. See Gerald L. Davis, “Afro-American Coil Basketry in Charleston County, South Carolina,” ed. Don Yoder, American Folklife (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976), 151-84.
3. George W. McDaniel, Hearth and Home: Preserving a People’s Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1982), 110.
4. W. Emerson Wilson, ed., Plantation Life at Rose Hill (Wilmington, Del.: Historical Society of Delaware, 1976), 56.
5. William Woys Weaver, Sauerkraut Yankees (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983), 161-62.
6.Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), 1311.
7. Charles Camp, “America Eats: Toward a Social Definition of American Foodways” (Philadelphia: Ph.D. Diss., University of Pennsylvania, 1978), 210.
8. Werner L. and Asa Moore Janney, eds., John Jay Janney’s Virginia (McLean, Va.: EPM Publications, Inc., 1978), 80.