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theirselves reflexive pronoun Themselves. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly northern New England, South, South Midland”]

1813 Hartsell Journal 122 Last evning General Cock went to the Deferent Companeys in Colonel Waires Ridgement to See how maney men would volenteere ther Selves for Twenty Days longer to goo to join General Jacksons armey. 1863 W Walker CW Letters (May 22) there was 7 yankeys Comes in an give there selves up an they sed that rosey was not agoing to give figt. 1922 TN CW Ques 1009 (Sullivan Co TN) Slaveholders seemed to think their selves a little better [than] the people that didn’t own slaves. 1939 Walker Mtneer Looks 9 Down inside o' theirselves they’re a-sayin’ that ye ain’t nothin’ but a ol' dirty hillbilly. 1973 GSMNP-1:36 I halfway believe that the people had it done theirselves.