A. B. Faust, The German Element in the United States, 2 vols. (1909).
J. P. MacLean, An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America (1900).
S. H. Cobb, The Story of the Palatines (1897).
N. D. Mereness (editor), Travels in the American Colonies. New York, 1916. This collection contains the diary of the Moravian Brethren cited in the first chapter of the present volume.
Life In The Back Country
Joseph Doddridge, Notes on the Settlements and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania, from 1763 to 1783. Albany, 1876. An intimate description of the daily life of the early settlers in the Back Country by one of themselves.
J. F. D. Smyth, Tour in the United States of America, 2 vols. London, 1784. Minute descriptions of the Back Country and interesting pictures of the life of the settlers; biased as to political views by Royalist sympathies.
William H. Foote, Sketches of North Carolina, New York, 1846. See Foote also for history of the first Presbyterian ministers in the Back Country. As to political history, inaccurate.
Early History And Exploration
J. S. Bassett (editor), The Writings of Colonel William Byrd of Westover. New York, 1901. A contemporary record of early Virginia.