Joshua Hadley Sr. moved with Patience and his family first to the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia in about 1748. Then, eight years later in 1756, they relocated again to Cane Creek, North Carolina. These movements were nearly certainly down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Route, which was not more than ruts passing over the Appalachian mountains and through the endless forests, down through Virginia to the Carolinas, as shown in the map below. Cane Creek in Chatham County, North Carolina is not far from this wagon route. On Ancestry from Cheryl Sheeder.