This site may be of some help.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tqpeiffer/Documents/Ancestral%20Migration%20Archives/Migration%20Webpage%20Folder/Routes%20to%20VA,%20NC,%20SC,%20GA.htm


On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:26 PM, CLAUDE RICHARDS <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>
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