A Virginian.

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1755.  “By G—d, sir, these are high times, when a British general is to take counsel from a Virginia buckskin!”—Saying of General Braddock, in rejecting Washington’s suggestion. See C. F. Hoffman’s ‘A Winter in the Far West,’ i. 67 (Lond., 1835).

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1787.  

        Cornwallis fought as long ’s he dought,
  An’ did the buckskins claw, man.
Robert Burns, ‘American War’ (N.E.D.).    

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1824.  We suspect that Capt. Tribby Clapp doodled the Buckskins.—Franklin Herald, April 13: also Mass. Spy, April 21, with yankee-doodled for doodled.

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1825.  He, a Yankee! he’s a Buckskin, every inch of him, I know.—The Virginians are called Buckskins.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 245.

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1837.  It was there, sir, I first looked in the face of George Washington,—a poor colonial buck-skin colonel then, but now, adzooks, the greatest man the world ever saw!—R. M. Bird, ‘The Hawks of Hawk-hollow,’ i. 42 (Phila.).

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