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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Great Wagon Road Alternatives Query
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:16:50 -0400
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> When the Fouts, Hoover, Mast, Varner, and Black families from the Pipe Creek
> area of PA-MD moved to the Uwharrie River area of North Carolina between
> 1762 and 1763, would they have taken the Great Valley Route (west of the
> Blue Ridge) version of the Great Wagon Road down through Fincastle and Big
> Lick, or would they have headed more directly south at the outset and taken
> the "Upper" Route version of the Great Wagon Road which stays east of the
> Blue Ridge?
>
>
>
> Were there several alternates of the Great Wagon Road if one chose to go
> from Pennsylvania to North Carolina?
>


Being Brethren and/or Quaker - they almost certainly took the Valley
Route. But yes, there was the eastern road -but no Brethren went that
way that I know of. Almost all of the Brethren lived (later, of course)
in the Valley. The Dunkers Bottom (1745) was in the extension of the
Valley, below Big Lick (Roanoke) down at Blacksburg (New River, now
Claytor Lake). These folks fled down to the Yadkin from the Indian
Raids (c1755).

Merle C Rummel

Merle

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