Judi
 
They may of used barges provided by watermen on the river.  The  Potomac is 
pretty much open to barges and sailboats up to Richmond. The distance  from 
the James River to inland waterways west may of taken 1 to 2 weeks by horse 
 cart and foot. Threre iss a famous route through that area that a lot 
took. From  Brownsville they could of gone to Shelby Ky. by barge again.
 
Brock Robertson
 
 
 
In a message dated 8/27/2012 12:20:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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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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