Food Preserving & Cheese Use.

Good stuff, Keith. I can add a little cheese.

(Peter Kalm, Travels in North America, Dover, p. 647)
Describing the NY Dutch:
"Their supper consists of bread and butter, and milk with small pieces of bread in it. The butter is very salt. Sometimes, too they have chocolate. They occasionally have cheese at breakfast and at dinner: It is not in slices but scraped or rasped, so as to resemble coarse flour,which they pretend adds to the good taste of cheese. They commonly drink very weak beer, or pure water."

And...

"In almost every place I have been this summer [1748], both in the English provinces and in the French ones in Canada, the residents have made cheese . . . . Here in Pennsylvania we got cheese of both kinds, good and bad; but in general better cheese was made here than in any other place in America that I visited. The cheese made by the Swedes of Raccoon [Swedesboro, NJ] was especially good and looked very appetizing. It was molded in round, thick forms of from nine to twelve inches in diameter, and was the best made in this part of the world. Some of it could rival the English variety."  

The Pennsylvania Gazette
June 5, 1755
"...long and short scythes, trading guns, muskets with bayonets, Cheshire and Gloucester cheese, choice Madeira wine by the pipe, &c. &c. &c."

THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE
July 20, 1739
Sloop Thomas and Tryal, of North Carolina, John Nelson, Master, from North-Carolina, with 146 Barrels of Tar, 12 Barrels of Turpentine, 4 Barrels of Rice, 60 Barrels of Pork, 2 Barrels of Whale Oyl, 1 Barrels of Tallow, 1000 lbs. of Bees Wax, and Myrtle Wax, 50 lbs. of raw and drest Deer Skins, 50 lbs. of Hides, a Small parcel of Furs, a Bag of Feathers, 150 lbs. of Butter and Cheese, 45 pair of Mill-Stones, 20 Bushels of Pease, and 2 Barrels of Beef 

Doddridge, traveling foods for drivers of caravans bring supplies:
"large wallets well filled with bread, jerk, boiled ham and cheese furnished provisions for the drivers.".

The South-Carolina GAZETTE
October 29, 1764
CHARLES-TOWN
FINE GLOUCESTER AND CHESHIRE CHEESE. —Best hyson and bohea tea, loaf sugar and sugar candy; coffee, black pepper, best Durham mustard, salt-petre, and ginger; cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves and mace, Turkey raisins, and currants in jars, prunes and Jordan almonds; pickled walnuts, capers, Spanish olives, and ketchup, Florence oil in pint bottles.—

THE SOUTH CAROLINA GAZETTE; AND COUNTRY JOURNAL
February 24, 1767
CHARLES-TOWN
Just imported….tin and pewter cullenders, tin Dutch ovens , cheese toasters, candle extinguishers, horn lantborns

Diary of Ezra Tilden, Continental soldier during the revolutionary war, July 1776-December 1777:
"5 August 1776 An Account of some things I carried into the Army in my Pack: A woolen Shirt with a snuff bottle full of ground coffee in it, and one and a half of chocolate in it too, wrapt up in a piece of brown paper and a new cotton and linen shirt and a new milk cheese wrapt up in it which weighed five pounds,"

The Pennsylvania Gazette
April 24, 1782
From the WESTMINSTER MAGAZINE.
An ACCOUNT of an ERUPTION of MOUNT VESUVIUS, which happened in August 1779. In a Letter from Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON, K.B.F.R.S. to JOSEPH BANKS, Esq; P.R.S.
(From the Philosophical Transactions, VOL. LXX.)
"If I may be allowed a mean comparison, which, however, conveys the idea of what I wish to explain, better than any other I can think of, this lava resembled a rich Parmesan cheese , which, when broken and gently separated, spins out transparent filaments from the little cells that contained the clammy liquor of which those filaments were composed."

SUPPLEMENT TO THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE
March 20, 1752
To the PRINTER.
SIR,
Mount Pleasant, March 1, 1752.
Whereas he enforces this Reasoning by intimating, that it would be absurd to cram gross Feeders with nothing but Tarts and Cheese-Cakes; when they have Stomacks strong enough, to break their Fast with fry'd Hominy , and a greasy Rasher of fat Bacon:

Spence