This is the fundmental work describing the Origins of the Mason Dixon Border Morris Team, the most famous and longest continusously active morris team in North America. This work was presented at the 23 and 6/8ths conference of the Professional Academic Journal of the American Musicology Association.

1. Dr. Brad Graham George Mason University Origins and History of the Mason-Dixon Border Morris Men, the Oldest Morris team in the Americas

5. White Mountain Folk Festival 1935 Byrd Shot of Mason-Dixon as Hobby-Chicken Pine Mountain Settlement School Sword Team

7. Team Genealogy

8. The Shot family tree Byrd Round Shure Bess Ida Jess Slapp Buck Lucky Grape Mist Team members in blue Long Sling Total Lee Nora Goode Crack Hot Distant cousins Bank Ben Pop Jess Ben Dear Mary Lee Bowled Lee Barrel Lee Dam Chuck Hed * Source Shot family Bible Trick C Gona B

9. The Thorn family tree Haw Prickle I Rosen Team members in blue Poynt E Aygooda Fred Emmet A Shew Sharpe Barry Andrew A Black Barry Barry Barry Sharpe * Source Thorn family Bible Darby A

10. The Tubits family tree Jess Maya Maya Blaine Git Mae Eustace Team members in blue Lub ya Yore Jess Shot Heaven Les N Shay Anna Hercutt Own Lee Torn Total Lee* * Source Tubits family Bible Bett * Now using his maiden name Shot-Tubits Les N Tuppence Devon Chwar

12. The Coons Lodge * Sorry photo taken with my cell phone camera, it’s a little grainy

13. Dancing with Foggy Bottom Morris Men, Arlington, VA 2007 Zak (FBMM) Mason Dixon