Here again is a short comment I keep trying to figure out.... "Kentucky once a part of Virginia" SO.....what part of KY was VA?????? bef 1792? TIP #204: PIONEER SOLDIERS, 1778 TO 1781 Lewis Collins, in his wonderful history of Kentucky, has aided us greatly in piecing together the names and locations of our earliest settlers in Kentucky. Kentucky did not reach statehood until 1792, but even while we were still a part of Virginia, ******* the hearty pioneers were blazing out trails into this wonderful commonwealth. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM: Try the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

Nena I have a map of the United States that is of the orginal Thirteen States, Kentucky was included in Virginia, until it became a State in 1792, Virginia went as far West as St. Louis, Missouri. Virginia also claimed the land West of and around the Great Lakes. The first census taken in 1790, showed a population of nearly four millions, about one-fifth was negroes, mostly slaves, and one fiftieth Indians. Only five percent of the people lived west of the Alleghanies. Virginia was the most populous state; Pennsylvania ranked next; then followed in order North Carolina, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, South Carolina and Connecticut. Vermont was admitted as the fourteenth state in 1791, and Kentucky as the fifteenth in 1792. There were three main routes of travel to the western settlements: (1) The Ohio River was reached at Pittsburgh by a route through Pennsylvania or by way of the Potomac and Monongahela Rivers. (2) The Virginia valley settlers followed the Greenbrier River to the Great Kanawha, a branch of the Ohio. (3) The greatest number of the frontier settlers moved by way of the Cumberland Gap or Wilderness Road. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nena Smothers" <smothersnena@hotmail.com> To: <SMOTHERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 11:27 PM Subject: [SMOTHERS] KY Pioneer Soldiers : Here again is a short comment I keep trying to figure out.... : "Kentucky once a part of Virginia" : SO.....what part of KY was VA?????? bef 1792? : : TIP #204: PIONEER SOLDIERS, 1778 TO 1781 : Lewis Collins, in his wonderful history of Kentucky, has aided us greatly in : piecing together the names and locations of our earliest settlers in : Kentucky. : Kentucky did not reach statehood until 1792, but even while we were still a : part of Virginia, ******* : the hearty pioneers were blazing out trails into this wonderful : commonwealth. : : : : _________________________________________________________________ : Help STOP SPAM: Try the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* : http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail : : : ============================== : To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: : http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 :