>_____________________From: JavaKittee@aol.com > >Subject: [SouthernTrails] re: S.C. to KY. >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Knowledgeable listers, if a family were in S.C. about 1744 and by 1800 were >in KY., what would be the like path they would have travelled? I'm thinking >there couldn't have been more than a few ways to get from S.C. to KY. at that >time but I have not been able to find anything. Thanks for any help. >*paulette* in SunnyFlorida/researching: Tanner-Newton-Wilkens-Glover: >SC-NC-KY-MO-ILL > Since you used the dates 1744 to 1800, I think a safe bet would be that they went thru the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky. You have to understand that Tennessee (then it was NC) was settled in the eastern bit, then it went from Nashville on the Cumberland back to the east. This was because of the fighting with the Indians. So Cumberland Gap was the route used during that time, but of course by 1800, the Indians had been run out so perhaps a different route was used. I would say up to about late 1790s the Gap would be the way. Now....if your ancestor was moving from PA, etc. to KY....then the Ohio River valley was used. Mary