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=== | === Immigration === | ||
Pre-statehood settlers of Kentucky were mostly of [[England|English]], [[Germany|German]] and [[Northern Ireland|Ulster Scots]] descent who migrated from the Atlantic seaboard states. Immigrants from [[North Carolina|North Carolina]] and southwestern [[Virginia|Virginia]] came by way of the Cumberland Gap and over the [[Wilderness Road|Wilderness Road]]. Immigrants from [[Maryland|Maryland]] and [[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] came on flatboats and rafts down the Ohio River from [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]]. | Pre-statehood settlers of Kentucky were mostly of [[England|English]], [[Germany|German]] and [[Northern Ireland|Ulster Scots]] descent who migrated from the Atlantic seaboard states. Immigrants from [[North Carolina|North Carolina]] and southwestern [[Virginia|Virginia]] came by way of the Cumberland Gap and over the [[Wilderness Road|Wilderness Road]]. Immigrants from [[Maryland|Maryland]] and [[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]] came on flatboats and rafts down the Ohio River from [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|Pittsburgh]]. | ||
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*Young, Chester Raymond. ''Westward into Kentucky, The Narrative of Daniel Trabue''. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1981. {{FHL|57459|item|disp=FHL Book 976.9 H2td}}. | *Young, Chester Raymond. ''Westward into Kentucky, The Narrative of Daniel Trabue''. Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 1981. {{FHL|57459|item|disp=FHL Book 976.9 H2td}}. | ||
Mrs. Mary Dewees kept a journal of her voyage from [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] to Kentucky in 1787-1788. She provides many details of what such a trip was like her diary makes a great read: | Mrs. Mary Dewees kept a journal of her voyage from [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] to Kentucky in the fall and winter of 1787-1788. She provides many details of what such a trip was like and her diary makes a great read: | ||
*Cochran, Samuel P. "Mrs. Mary Dewees's Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky, 1787-1788," ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 28 (1904):182-198. Digital version at [http://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniamaga1904hist#page/370/mode/2up Internet Archive] - free. | *Cochran, Samuel P. "Mrs. Mary Dewees's Journal from Philadelphia to Kentucky, 1787-1788," ''The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography,'' Vol. 28 (1904):182-198. Digital version at [http://archive.org/stream/pennsylvaniamaga1904hist#page/370/mode/2up Internet Archive] - free. | ||