Question: Peter Hackett was born in approximately 1763 or 1764 in the English colony of Virginia, he was a part of the broad Scotch-Irish migration along where, which was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East?

Peter Hackett was born in approximately 1763 or 1764 in the English colony of Virginia.  As a boy Peter was bonded out to Captain James Estill, in approximately 1771, and was a part of the broad Scotch-Irish migration along the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap from Virginia into what later became known as Kentucky in the late 18th century.  It is believed that Peter was the son of Thomas Hackett, likely of Montgomery County, Virginia.  In 1779 he was a resident of Boonesborough, one of the first English-speaking settlements beyond the Appalachian Mountains, and lived there until 1780.  Early residents of Boonesborough included Daniel Boone, James Estill, Joseph Proctor, Nicholas Proctor, Adam Caperton, David Lynch, John Colefoot, John Moore, George Robertson, Thomas Miller, Reuben Proctor, Thomas Warren, Peter Hackett, and Thomas Watson.  In 1780 Hackett helped establish Estill's Station, Kentucky, and lived there until about 1788. <SEP> Oliver Cromwell Hackett was born March 29, 1822 in Scott County, Kentucky.  His father was John Hackett, and his grandfather was noted Kentucky frontiersman and militiaman of the American Revolution, Peter Hackett.  John Hackett moved the family, including young O. C., from Kentucky to Coles County, Illinois in 1835.  O. C. Hackett married Ellen Roxanne (Wyeth) on March 14, 1854.  O. C.'s children included Frederick W. Hackett.  O. C. died April 8, 1905 in Tuscola, Illinois.  Family legend holds that Abraham Lincoln stayed at the Hackett farm near Charleston Illinois before or after the 4th of the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. <SEP> The Fox–Wisconsin Waterway is a waterway formed by the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. First used by European settlers in 1673 during the expedition of Marquette & Joliet, it was one of the principal routes used by travelers between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River until the completion of the Illinois and Michigan Canal in 1848 and the arrival of railroads.  The western terminus of the Fox–Wisconsin Waterway was at the Mississippi at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.  It continued up the Wisconsin River about 116 miles (187 km) until reaching Portage, Wisconsin.  There travelers would portage to the Upper Fox River, or eventually, use the Portage Canal.  It continued about 160 miles (257 km) down the Fox River, following it through Lake Winnebago and continuing on the Lower Fox over 170 feet (50 m) of falls to the eastern terminus of Green Bay. <SEP> The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East.  Although this road goes through the Cumberland Gap into southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee, the other (more northern route) is sometimes called the "Cumberland Road" because it started in Fort Cumberland in Maryland.  Despite Kentucky Senator Henry Clay's advocacy of this route, early in the 19th century, the northern route was selected for the National Road, connecting near Washington, Pennsylvania into the Ohio Valley of northern Kentucky and Ohio.