Title: To western woods
Subtitle: the Breckinridge family moves to Kentucky in 1793
Description: John and Mary Cabell Breckinride family through those stages of preparing for and migrating from Albemarle County, Virginia to Lexington, Kentucky in 1793. The wealth of papers preserved by the Breckinridge permits a focus on a story that many thousands lived but did not record.

John Breckingridge (1760-1806) served in the Virginia and Kentucky Legistaltures United States Congress and United States attorney general under Thomas Jefferson.
Subjects: Biography, History, Kentucky, biography, Kentucky, history
Places: Kentucky
People: Breckinridge family, John Breckinridge (1760-1806)
Time periods: 1792-1865, To 1792