Hi folks, I was thinking of perimeters and immigration patterns and one of my old mysteries popped into my head. I had put it on hold some time back. My Mom always said, insisted, that her Dad told her that the oral tradition passed down from his mother was that her family came from Canada to Upstate New York down thru PA westward down thru Ohio and ultimately to Illinois. My Great-Grandmother who was the source of this information is first found in Pulaski Co.KY but several of her children listed her birthplace as Illinois on several different Censuses. Also, some of her children's death certificates listed her birthplace as Illinois. Her father and mother married in Pulaski Co.KY in 1830, their dau. was born ca. 1832--1833. Her mother died, and her father remarried in 1836 in Wayne Co.KY near Pulaski Co. Her mother's family were Martin's who had been Quakers. They did come from PA. I find this on Moses Martin's RW Pension Application at the Sons of the American Revolution Library in Lou.KY. l have wanted, since I was a child, to find something on my Mohawk heritage. As an adult, I thought it might help to trace their migration from Canada on downward. That has proven harder than I expected. I have these Martin's in PA and the Pension Appl. states that Moses said he moved his family from VA down to TN and up into KY. I can't figure out how Illinois figures in. I have one clue, one Census says that my Gr-GM was born in Missouri. I wondered if she was born near where the 3 states, KY-MO-IL meet. This is not too far from where the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers meet and the Cumberland leads to Pulaski Co.KY. I must also state that my Moses Martin was b. in Bedford Co.VA per his Pension Appl., in 1755. So how could they migrate westward as Mom said, yet be in VA in 1755. I read somewhere that the Iroquois Indians were friendly with Quakers in Upstate New York and helped protect them during the RW. Does anyone have any information on this? Mom said that Grandpa told her a number of family stories like this one, because his Mother said that it was the Mohawk way, to pass on family history orally. Mom said he was telling her the stories because she was interested and would pass it on to her child or children who would be most likely pass it on. That was me in our family. So it seems like my Martin's went two ways, southwest to Illinois and southward to VA. I have a conflict here. Any suggestions? Barb Temple