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From an article about Aaron Spalding (shoemaker).
Study of the settlement of Kentucky after the Revolution underscores the motivation of our pioneering ancestors to seek a new life beyond the Appalachian Mountains of western Virginia. Kentucky was a "promised land" of mythical proportion. To this Canaanland, pioneer families traveled by horseback and mule-drawn wagon. Spalding ancestors journeyed northwestward from Maryland to Fort Redstone on the Monongahela River, then by water to Fort Pitt, and by flatboat down the Ohio River to the frontier settlements. Others rode through western Virginia to Cumberland Gap and along the Wilderness Road to the bluegrass region of central Kentucky. They brought with them their shining dream of a new start in a "western Eden."[1]
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