Start with George W. Ranck, ""'The Travelling Church': An Account of the
Baptist Exodus from Virginia to Kentucky in 1781," Register of the
Kentucky Historical Society 79 (1981): 240-265.

Brent Tarter
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"The Travelling Church" by George W Ranck 

"The moving train included church members and their children, negro
slaves  and other emigrants (who for better protection, had attached
themselves  to an organized expedition),between five and six hundred
souls and was the  largest body of Virginians that ever set out for
Kentucky at one time." 
It is estimated that there were 200 church members in the expedition.

Seems there should be references to this event in VA History.  As events
have been described, I am now convinced my "main" ancestor travelled to
KY via with the church expedition.  Did the word crusade come to mean
only royalty based people movement?  But. then the mass of people were
"fleeing"
oppressive treatment by the officials of the colony re religion.

Are there any thesis on-line that you all know of on VA History?