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From: John Rhodes <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Early travels
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:11:36 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <004b01c6f84a$62e68260$0200a8c0@r7s5e2>


Sue,

As you are on the Internet, you can readily research these questions by such means as a Google search. Enter a keyword or two and press 'Search'.

John Rhodes

Sue Snyder <> wrote:
Going into Early Travels...early 1800's...here are some questions: what was
the situation in Hagerstown re the War of 1812, about 1814? How would a
group of people get fromHagerstown (about 1812-1814) get to Urbana Ohio?
What was the road situation and how long did it take?
----- Original Message -----
From: "gordon crooks"
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Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 4:56 PM
Subject: [MDWashin] Early travels


> You all need to read Nelda's travels URL to get an idea of what travel was
> like in the early days. Some of mine left Franklin Co., Pa. to
> Westmoreland Co., Pa. in the late 1700's. This is a distance of approx.
> 150 miles as the crow flies and today is that amount or a little more by
> road up one mountain and down the next one. This trip took 10 days or more
> and was a little more than a Indian path thru the wilderness. It was such
> a ordeal that once made, they never went back to visit their original
> homesteads and those who didn't stay in that mountainous region went West
> to the plains.
>
> Gordon
>
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