To: Sarap@widomaker.com Subject: Fwd: Re: Migration I received this note from another correspondent regarding the difficulty in building Braddock's road to Ft. Dusquesne. This also indicates that roads through the South Branch from the Shenandoah Valley as late as 1755 were very limited. From: "macbd1" <macbd1@arthur.k12.il.us> Wahll's "Braddock Road Chronicles, 1755" English officers, with provincial agreement, speak of the roads west of Winchester being barely passable on horseback, speaking of some on the way to, and near the North and South Branch intersect, running along stream beds. Plans were made to cut into the hills and mountains to run a road west of Winchester near or along the ridges; this was simply to provide better means to approach the Wills Creek area of Ft. Cumberland, without considering yet how to construct a wide wagon road from there to sw PA. They were still simply marking trees for its path in very early 1755. I previously spoke of the Potomac being navigable to Ft. Cumberland; however, this was true only for canoes at low water times -- the water was too shallow beyond the So. Br. mouth for 'floats' carrying artillery and other heavy goods.