Keith: Where would we find a copy of "a wonderful petition that was signed and republished in Leckey's Ten Mile Country"? I don't have ready access to a library and would like to check this resource. Ida Mae ----- Original Message ----- From: Keith Kurtz <kthq@yahoo.com> To: <KYSHELBY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 6:09 PM Subject: [KYSHELBY] Re: [kybullitt] Migration Patterns/funnels > 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 >