<div>Hi Jay</div> <div> </div> <div>I know I am coming to this a bit late, but the book Running Mad for Kentucky: Frontier Travel Accounts, edited by Ellen Eslinger is very interesting and informative. It is put out by the University Press of Kentucky.</div> <div> </div> <div>David<br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername"></b><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:keli1@aol.com">keli1@aol.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:07 PM<br> Subject: Re: [APG Public List] Kentucky travel early 1800s<br>To: <a href="mailto:keli1@aol.com">keli1@aol.com</a>, <a href="mailto:JFonkert@aol.com">JFonkert@aol.com</a>, <a href="mailto:bvlittle@earthlink.net">bvlittle@earthlink.net</a>, <a href="mailto:Elissa@powellgenealogy.com">Elissa@powellgenealogy.com</a>, <a href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</a><br> <br><br><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" color="blue" size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" color="blue" size="3"> <div>I forgot to include the date-the travels were in 1837<br></div> <div><br></div> <div style="CLEAR: both"><a style="FONT: lighter 10px Verdana,Arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><img align="absMiddle" border="0"></a> Know Your Roots They are Long and Strong!<br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,arial"> <div class="im">-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:keli1@aol.com" target="_blank">keli1@aol.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:JFonkert@aol.com" target="_blank">JFonkert@aol.com</a>; <a href="mailto:bvlittle@earthlink.net" target="_blank">bvlittle@earthlink.net</a>; Elissa@PowellGenealogy.com<br> Sent: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 9:03 pm<br>Subject: Re: [APG Public List] Kentucky travel early 1800s<br><br></div> <div><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" color="blue" size="3"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" color="blue" size="3"> <div>It is interesting, my gg grandfather traveled 37 days with a party of 18 in wagons from Herkimer County NY to Eaton County, MI.<br></div> <div><br></div> <div style="CLEAR: both"><a style="FONT: lighter 10px Verdana,Arial; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><img align="absMiddle" border="0"></a> Know Your Roots They are Long and Strong!<br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: helvetica,arial"> <div class="im">-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:JFonkert@aol.com" target="_blank">JFonkert@aol.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:bvlittle@earthlink.net" target="_blank">bvlittle@earthlink.net</a>; <a href="mailto:Elissa@PowellGenealogy.com" target="_blank">Elissa@PowellGenealogy.com</a>; <a href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org" target="_blank">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</a><br> </div> <div class="im">Sent: Sun, Mar 27, 2011 8:33 pm<br>Subject: Re: [APG Public List] Kentucky travel early 1800s<br><br></div> <div><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div> <div> <div class="im"> <div>Thank you, Barbara. The accounts from diaries that you and a few others have offered give interesting insights. Regarding water vs. land, I think most people would guess that river transport was cheaper than land. I suppose that the cost of building a raft or boat was one factor. As for people returning to Virginia via the Wilderness Road, that makes sense to me because upstream on the Ohio would be a challenge.</div> <div> </div> <div>For those interested in this subject, a map in C. O. Paulin, Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, shows travel times from New York in 1880.</div> <div> </div> <div>- central Virginia, 7 days</div> <div>- western Virginia, 3 weeks</div> <div>- Kentucky via the Ohio, 3 weeks</div> <div>- KY Bluegrass via Cumberland Gap, 3+ weeks</div> <div> </div> <div>One's travel speed would obviously depend on the size of the party and what belongings people carried.</div> <div> </div> <div>In a message dated 3/27/2011 3:49:54 P.M. Central Daylight Time, <a href="mailto:bvlittle@earthlink.net" target="_blank">bvlittle@earthlink.net</a> writes:</div></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"> <div class="im"><font color="#000000"><font size="2"><font face="arial,sans-serif">River travel was more expensive. Francis Taylor's diaries note the move of his kin with livestock and slaves to Kentucky by traveling north from Orange County (central Piedmont Virginia) and then down the Ohio; however, when they made return trips for business it was via the Wilderness Road.<br> </font></font></font></div> <blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,255) 2px solid"> <div class="im">-----Original Message----- <br>From: "Elissa Scalise Powell, CG" <<a href="mailto:elissa@powellgenealogy.com" target="_blank">elissa@powellgenealogy.com</a>> <br>Sent: Mar 27, 2011 10:23 AM <br> To: <a href="mailto:apgpubliclist@apgen.org" target="_blank">apgpubliclist@apgen.org</a> <br>Subject: Re: [APG Public List] Kentucky travel early 1800s <br><br></div></<a href="mailto:elissa@powellgenealogy.com" target="_blank">elissa@powellgenealogy.com</a>></blockquote> <div class="im"><pre>Barbara Vines Little, CG<br> <br> <br> PO Box 1273<br> <br> <br> Orange, VA 22960<br> <br> <br> <a href="tel:540-832-3473" target="_blank">540-832-3473</a><br> <br> <br> <a href="mailto:bvlittle@earthlink.net" target="_blank">bvlittle@earthlink.net</a></pre></div></font></blockquote></div> <div></div></div> <div class="im"> <div> </div> <div><font lang="2" face="Arial" size="2">Jay Fonkert, CG<br><a href="http://fourgenerationsgenealogy.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://fourgenerationsgenealogy.blogspot.com/</a><br>Saint Paul, MN<br><br>Director, Association of Professional Genealogists<br> (</font><font lang="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="1">professional profile at <a href="http://www.apgen.org%29/" target="_blank">www.apgen.org)</a></font><font lang="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><br>Member, Genealogical Speakers Guild<br> </font><font lang="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="1">(professional profile at <a href="http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org/%29" target="_blank">http://www.genealogicalspeakersguild.org/)</a><u><br></u></font><u><font lang="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"></font></u><font lang="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2">Member, International Society of Family History Writers and Editors <br> <br></font><font lang="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="1">CG (Certified Genealogist) is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by Board-certified associates after periodic competency evaluations.</font><font lang="2" face="Arial" color="#000000" size="2"><br> </font></div></div></font></div></div></font></font></div></div></font></font></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br> <div>David W. 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