Ann, I hope you don't mind, but I am forwarding your E-Mail to Shelby County and Floyd County IN Keith >No Anthony, I haven't forgotten :) > >Tis the season for too many interruptions but I hope to work on migrations >over Christmas break and will be asking people lots of questions because I >want to confirm a number of things I have collected and the ever present fear >of leading someone astray looms large. > >I am curious about the "funnels" to Bullitt County. I use that term for lack >of better vocuabulary - there may be a technical term for it that I don't >know about. The two most common funnels for early Kentucky were SW PA (and >that area just below in old Ohio Co. VA) where everyone went to park while >waiting for "Kaintuckee" to open up or to wait for other kinfolk to join >them to get there... and the other down through North Carolina and sometimes >dropping into S. Carolina. > > >Bullitt County seems to also have had a funnel through the Louisa Co. VA >area... where families from surrounding counties came together and arrived >here. Does anyone know why? What was the gathering point? And did they >come straight from there? I ask that because most of the Frederick >Co./Culpeper Co./Stafford Co./Hampshire Co. folk do the stopover in SW PA >area on their way .. and a few dropped south for a few years. Did this >Louisa Co. grouping stop anywhere that anyone knows of for a brief time? >Same goes for the Marylanders - did the MAGRUDERS and others do the stopover >and if so which one? > >One of the best ways I have found to site the stopovers in SW PA/NW VA is >from a wonderful petition that was signed and republished in Leckey's Ten >Mile Country. Folks had come from Maryland, New Jersey, further east in PA >and the Northern Neck of Virginia and wanted on to the frontier right around >the time of the Revolution. They were tired of the boundary dispute between >VA & PA and tired of being put on hold so they petitioned the government for >a new territory which they proposed they call "Westsylvania" and thousands of >men signed it. It catches an amazing proportion of early Kentuckians to >central Kentucky. I want to study it carefully for the migration project and >if anyone has any requests for me to look up let me know. Unlike much of >what I have it is indexed and I can probably answer in some sort of timely >fashion. It is not so much help for the most common names, of course, but >since fathers and sons often signed it you can frequently tell if it is your >family grouping. > >There is a strong migration of Southern Virginians/northern N. Carolina folk >who come to the Shelby Co. area in the early 1800s. Are there Bullitt >families who took this path that anyone can report for us? > >Anne > > >Anne Livingston >livings1@aol.com > > > ><adforce.imgis.com/?adlink|2.0|2|94694|5971|1|ADFORCE;loc=300;> > >>lick Here All original messages from me, may be freely distributed, unless otherwise indicated, for NON-COMERCIAL use. All Sources must be included. Keith Kurtz List owner: FloydCountyIN@onelist.com or kthq@yahoo.com