I came upon the story of "Mother Jones" who had six boys from two marriages and she decided against the wishes of her husband to uproot from SC to ENG. She had noticed folks traveling through her neck of the woods that were going south into SC and all points to new land. Reading about this amazing woman moving her family past the frontier in GA in 1800. According to the text in WARD`s HISTORY OF COFFEE COUNTY "Mother Jones" and her sons moved to land occupied by the Creek Indians and altogether they built their log cabin about 30 miles south of the last settlement on the frontier. Thus my question about any ideas of what was the timing of travel if one managed to keep a diary that could be shared. I really enjoyed the comments received so far.