A lowland Virginian.
1816. The people [west of the Blue Ridge] … call those east of the mountain Tuckahoes, and their country Old Virginia. They themselves are the Cohees, and their country New Virginia.—J. K. Paulding, ‘Letters from the South,’ i. 112 (N.Y., 1817). (Italics in the original.)
1816. The daughters of the Tuckahoes are young ladies; those of the Cohees only girls.—Id., i. 146.
1835. This [the Blue] ridge divides the Ancient Dominion into two nations, called Tuckahoes and Quo’hees; the former inhabiting the lowland, and living ‘more majorum;’ the latter ocupying the mountains and elevated valleys, and having somewhat sophisticated the liberal and comfortable ways of old Virginia, by introducing outlandish customs from Pennsylvania and other foreign countries.—P. H. Nicklin, ‘Letters on the Virginia Springs,’ pp. 16–7 (Phila.).
