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Date Posted: 12:32:18 05/10/04 Mon
Author: inscoyotyl
Subject: i knew original spelling was Inschoe ...
In reply to: LB 's message, "Did a bit of Internet research" on 01:53:59 05/06/04 Thu

... and various alternate Americanized spellings i've encountered include Insco, Inscoe and Inskoe also mentioned on that site. my grandmothers literature traces my own line back 9 generations in Kentucky originally from possibly up around the Scranton/Wilkes-barrie area of Pennsylvania via the normal migration route via the Ohio river (there are also some earlier New Jersey intimations in my material), when old Joseph Insko and his younger son Joseph and family settled or homesteaded barely 25 or so miles in from the main landing point (Maysville, or Limestone as it was known in those days, hence Limestone street in Lexington, one of the two original crossing thoroughfares with Main street - Limestone street also being part of the original "Buffalo Trail" of US highway 68 which eventually becomes the Sante Fe trail - the first blacktopped road west of the Appalachians) of Simon Kenton in what i figure must have been pre-statehood (June 1, 1792) Kentucky right around what eventually became the Robertson and Bracken counties of today and where my family is from. there is also a recorded marriage of an Insko ancestor of mine to Lydia McGohon, a daughter of the same Capt McGohon whose cabin has been preserved as one of the original fort dwellings in Harrodsburg, which is recognized as the first official settlement in Kentucky (also on highway 68).

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