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- ↑ Rachel N. Klein, "Ordering the Backcountry: The South Carolina Regulation". William and Mary Quarterly (1981) 38 (4): 661–680.
- ↑ This document and related materials are printed in Richard J. Hooker, ed. The Carolina Backcountry on the Eve of the Revolution: The Journal and Other Writings of Charles Woodmason, Anglican Itinerant. (1953)
- ↑ Klein, "Ordering the Backcountry."