Lucy Richards and her sons appear in the 1792 tax lists of Maysville, Mason Co., Ky.  By 1805 they were in Chillicothe and in Highland Co., Ohio.

Claude Richards
 
"Government is not reason. It is not eloquence. Government is force; like fire it is a dangerous servant -- and a fearful master.” 

—George Washington



> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:43:44 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Navigability question
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Where did they go?
>  
> Judi
>  
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> In a message dated 8/27/2012 5:48:20 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
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> 
> I am  working on a theory that my ancestral family may have "sailed" up the 
> Potomac  and gone overland to the Monongahela River and then down the Ohio. 
>  This  would have been about 1784-1792.
> 
> Can someone tell me (during that time  period):
> 1.     how far up the Potomac they could have  gotten before having to go 
> overland?
> 2.     how far up the  Monongahela they could have put in to the water?  
> 3.   where I might get further information on this?
> 
> They owned  next to nothing so a boat could have been small.
> 
> Thanks for your  help.
> 
> Claude Richards
> 
> "Government is not reason. It is not  eloquence. Government is force; like 
> fire it is a dangerous servant -- and a  fearful master.” 
> 
> —George Washington
> 
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