Newspaper Article on Early Settlement in Greenup Co., KY from 1877

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re: FUQUA,  DUPUY,  MACKOY source:  a newspaper on microfilm at Ohio Historical 
Society "THE IRONTON REGISTER" Ironton, Ohio, Thursday, March 1, 1877 Lawrence 
County, Ohio copied by:  Marlene Coleman, evelynm@netset.com

EARLY SETTLEMENT "The following is an extract from a sketch of early days across 
the river, showing the first settlement in Greenup County: Captain Moses FUQUA,  
an officer of the Revolutionary War, with seven or eight children, sons, and 
daughters, and sons-in-law named Josiah MORTON, W. DUPUY and John MACKOY,  from 
the counties of Campbell and Charlotte, Virginia, each with young families and a 
few slaves, left the Old Dominion in the latter part of the eighteenth century, 
in search of a western home.  It was, no light undertaking for these pioneer  
fathers and mothers with their young children, to attempt the crossing of the 
rugged mountain, where the trace existed.  Yet they persevered in their journey. 

After leaving Campbell county they passed through Bedford county, near the Peaks 
of Otter, and then over the Blue Ridge and on to the Alleghenies.  Upon reaching 
the summit of some of these mountains it was sometimes difficult to 
determine how to descend, the incline being too great to use the ordinary method 
of locking the wagon wheels.  The plan as described by them was to cut down trees 
with bushy tops and fasten them to the foot of the mountain.  Thus they continued 
westwardly by way of the White Sulphur Springs and the Kanawha Valley. These 
families all finally reached the Ohio Valley and located in Greenup county, 
Kentucky, thirty miles below the Big Sandy river, in the large bottom where 
Tygart Creek empties into the Ohio river, and extending up and down the river for 
some nine or ten miles.  Each of the party purchased several hundred acres, and, 
although in a dense forest, they soon erected log cabins and cleared up ground to 
raise corn and the necessaries of life."