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 > > -- Dr. Jon Kukla, Executive Vice-President Red Hill - The Patrick Henry National Memorial 1250 Red Hill Road Brookneal, Virginia 24528 www.redhill.org Phone 434-376-2044 or 800-514-7463 Fax 434-376-2647 - Lynn B. Davis, Office Manager - Karen Gorham, Associate Curator - Edith Poindexter, Curator