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Jon Kukla <[log in to unmask]>
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When I was working on the background to the Louisiana Purchase I found
some informative accounts of families' western migration in William L.
Andrews, ed., Journeys in New Worlds: Early American Women's Narratives
(Madison, Wis., 1990)

Jon Kukla


> See the Brownrigg Papers at UNC for an account of the family's wagon
> caravan
> from NC to Lowndes County, Mississippi, where they settled. Very
> interesting
> material. As for getting a family across the river, I don't know; I'm sure
> others do.
>
> http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/htm/02226.html
>
> Henry Wiencek
>
>


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