Up Jumps the Devil

ACKNOWLEDGMENTSAs always, I am indebted to many for their technical advice or help, in particular District Court Judges Shelly S. Holt, John W. Smith, and Rebecca W. Blackmore of the 5th Judicial District (New Hanover County, NC and former Special Agent Henry Lee Poole of the State Bureau of Investigation. David Brown shared the memory of his one moonshine run, Linda Bryan Murphy gave me her father’s deer story, Ann R. Stephenson tries to keep me accurate, and Susan Dunlap and Joan Hess let me bounce ideas. Thanks, guys!All chapter captions have been taken from a pamphlet published anonymously in 1773 by “Scotus Americanus”: Informations Concerning the Province of North Carolina, Addressed to Emigrants from the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, by an Impartial Hand, courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Wilson library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.