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At first it doesn't seem logical to float the Monongahela River North from Brownsville,Pennsylvania until it joins the Ohio River, before going south toward Kentucky. Today it is about 75 road miles and I am sure it was more than that on the river. Another ancestor of mine went from Albemarle County, Virginia through the Cumberland Gap , a far more familar route.
John Keith, Sr. was born in Baltimore, MD but his four sons were born in Hampshire county, Virginia (WV) between about 1745 and 1750. They were Henry, John Jr., Alexander, and William (my ancestor).
We know that John Sr. and the 4 sons went to
Pennsylvania and approximately when, because of children that were born there, etc.
Henry was still in Hampshire county Virginia in 1774 when he contributed a "lift" of cattle for "youse" (use) of the army by Captain William Harrod. (The Continental Army I'm
sure.) Henry's son Alexander was born in Pennsylvania in 1767.
John Jr. was in Bedford County, Pennsylvania in early 1770's.
Alexander married Margaret Harned in Washington County Pennsylvania in 1774 and their children Jonathan and Katherine were born there in 1775 and 1776.
William married Elizabeth LaRue in Fredrick County , Virginia in 1772. Their first three children, John, Jacob and Amy were born in Virginia in 1774, 1776 and 1778. There is a possible discrepancy here because William and his brother Alexander were at Fort Liberty (also known as Fort Gaddis) under the command of Captain Thomas Gaddis, on who's property the Fort was built, approximately 2 miles south of present Uniontown, Pennsylvania. The Keith brothers were there from September 9, 1776 to January 1, 1777.
In any event Lone Pine, near the location of Ten Mile Baptist Church, was about 25 miles West of Uniontown, the location of Fort Gaddis, and Brownsville, PA was about midway between the two. They obviously knew that Bownsville was a popular spot to exit the area for Kentucky by water.
They and a lot of their in-laws and associated families most
probably chose this route. During times of sufficient water they could float from Brownsville, Pennsylvania to the falls of the Ohio at Louisville, Kentucky probably in a
month.
Additional circumstantial evidence this route was used is that William's son Jacob married his cousin Rebecca
Hodgen in 1803. Rebecca was reportedly born on a flat boat on November 4, 1784 while her parents were moving from Virginia. (Rebecca was also present when Abraham Lincoln was Born. But that's another story).
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