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John Minear	Origins: Child Ballads in 18th c. America? (170* d)	RE: Origins: Child Ballads in 18th c. America?	17 Apr 12
Jonathan, thanks for the information of population sizes. These kinds of things really help put all of this in a more realistic perspective. I assume that the "Virginia" statistics would include what we are now calling "West Virginia". I wonder what the population looked like west of the Alleghenies in 1790. Speaking of which, here is some more information from J.H. Cox's collection. He has four ballads from Mrs. Elizabeth Tapp Beck, of Morgantown in Monongalia County, which were collected in March of 1916. There is "Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor," "The House Carpenter," "Home Came The Old Man (#274)," and "The Golden Willow Tree." Cox says that she said that she learned these songs from her mother, Mrs. Thomas H. Tapp, who learned it from her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Wade Mack, who lived "near Bethel Church" near Easton. Here are the links: http://archive.org/stream/folksongsofsouth00coxj#page/64/mode/2up http://archive.org/stream/folksongsofsouth00coxj#page/148/mode/2up http://archive.org/stream/folksongsofsouth00coxj#page/154/mode/2up http://archive.org/stream/folksongsofsouth00coxj#page/170/mode/2up

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