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From: "Nancy Crayton" <>
Subject: RE: [THE ROAD] Travel along the coast 1650-1750?
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:58:32 -0800
In-Reply-To: <004001c1ba66$76117290$6501a8c0@omega>


From everything I've read - travel in the early days along the coast was
primarily by boat. Inland travel in the earliest days in coastal
Carolinas was difficult because of all the waterways and swamps - and
poor roadways. There were no roadways as such - just paths. You
contended with fallen trees, mud during the rainy periods, snakes,
gators, malaria, yellow fever, and robbers. Not to mention the dangers
of meeting with a raiding party. If you read the Documents of SC Indian
Trade before 1770 - you get a picture of how desolate the area was
before the promise of free land enticed people to leave the British
Isles and Europe to take their chances.

One of the earliest settlements in the interior of NC was of Bethebara
(near present day Winston Salem, NC) by Moravians about 1745 (off the
top of my head). It wasn't until Scots, Protestant Irish aka Scots
Irish, Germans, Swiss and French Protestants began to move down the
Great Wagon Road from Pennsylvania that the interiors of the colonies
were settled. These were Indian lands and the British government did
all it could to try to appease the American Indians by keeping the
settlers out of their hunting grounds.

I'm beginning to ramble so I'll stop.

Nancy Crayton


---Original Message-----
From: Sharon Ann KÃ¥sa [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:30 PM
To:
Subject: [THE ROAD] Travel along the coast 1650-1750?

I have a puzzle that I haven't been able to solve. Perhaps, those more
familar with migration routes in the early days of the U.S.A can help
shed
some light. It is a bit long, but hopefully interesting to many on this
list.

It is all about early travel, transport and migration between the
northern
settlements of New Amsterdam (New York), Pennsylvania/New Jersey and
Virginia and the Carolinas.

A professor I have discussed this with does not believe it was
physically
possible to travel between New Jersey and Virginia in the period late
1600's-early 1700's. I believe it was possible and was in fact often
done
by the Dutch and the Quakers, among others. The Quakers possibly using
transport by boat and later, by land.

Here is what I know:

Jabez Wehrle, born 1680 in Hanover, Germany, was living in or near
Burlington, New Jersey before 1715. In 1715 in Burlington, Burlington
County, New Jersey, Jabez married Mildren Bacon. In 1722, they were
still
in NJ and their daughter, Mary Wehrley (Worley) was born.

Mary Worley (b. 1722) "of Burlington" married 4 Mar 1741 in Burlington,
Burlington County, New Jersey, Daniel Hough(Jr.)"of Burlington".

Jabez Wehrle and his wife Mildred died in Virginia. Jabez in 1748 and
Mildren in 1754.

Daniel and Mary left Burlington with their 4 children shortly after 1750
(their youngest dau. was born in Burlington 1750). Mary died in
Granville
(Orange) County, North Carolina 25 Aug. 1751 or 1757. Daniel married
for a
second time in Orange County, NC abt. 1760. Daniel and Mary were
closely
associated with the Quakers and Daniel's children by Mary and his second
wife Ann are all recorded in the Quaker records.

I have found that the Quakers often sent sons to Virginia and the
Carolinas
very early in the 1700's. The Dutch in New York appeared to be involved
in
transportation along the coast between New York (New Amsterdam) and
Virginia
even earlier (tobacco?).

Records show that Daniel Hough, Sr. (b. 1693 PA), son of Quakers and
father
of Daniel Hough (Jr.) of Burlington, was involved in land transactions
along
Meherring River, married a second wife (widow) and sold land in
Nansemond
Co. VA. in 1738. Records of 1739 and 1740 show that he and his brother
served jury duty for Bertie Co. and Edgecomb Co. (probably the area
which
became Northampton Co.) Both Daniel Hough, Sr. and his son Daniel (Jr.)
died
in NC.

The questions:

1. Mildred Bacon is recorded as being born in Virgina 1696. How could
she
have traveled to New Jersey in order to be married to Jabez in
Burlington in
1715? Could she have traveled by boat from Virginia?

2. Daniel Hough, Sr. paid to have someone care for his child in VA.
Later,
he paid (in VA) to have someone other than himself transported over a
long
distance by boat (he paid with 500 lbs of tobacco). Could this child
possibly have been son Daniel (Jr.) transported back from VA to NJ prior
to
Daniel's(Jr.) marriage 1741 in NJ to Mary Wehrle? What route would have
been
likely?


I would appreciate any insight or ideas. Perhaps their are others on the
list who may be studying the early transportation between the northern
and
southern settlements?

Sharon in Norway



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