>From "Migration to Kentucky" "... One such area was the Ten-mile Country, long a favorite meeting place for traders and Indians which was located in southwestern Pennsylvania. Much of this section has been granted for service in the French and Indian War. A long-time acquaintance of the Edward Tyler family, Jacob VanMeter, received at least two of these grants. VanMeter's intertwining relationship with the Tylers included his participation in Goshen Baptish Church which he helped to organize in 1774 at Garard's Fort..... Garard's Fort was located on Muddy Creek which flowed from the west into the Monongahela River. " "... When spring finally came hundreds of settlers traveled down the Ohio creating the first great influx of immigrants into that area...Upon arrival those with Jacob VanMeter moved on to Severn's Valley near present day Elizabethtown. Edward and Ann Tyler settled at the Falls and would remain long enought to see it become the town of Louisville, a place of questionable potential except except for it's location at the only natural obstruction in nearly 1000 miles of navigable river - the Falls of the Ohio." Further notes: The Vanmeters and the Garards were the family of Margaret "Peggy" Garard who married Samuel Goodin, and had daughter Hetty Garard Goodin, married to Hardin Thomas 2-24-1789 in Nelson Co. KY. Hardin Thomas (son of Owen Thomas and Mary Hardin) died at Elizabethtown KY May 1837 and was buried at the Thomas Fam. Cem., Freeman Lake, Hardin Co., KY.