Are you aware if there was any group migration (of Brethren folks) fromRockingham / Augusta, VA to the Miami Valley in OH about 1810? ***************** Yes - this was a time of major migration to Southern Ohio - The main road was the Kanawha Trace (see Migration Roads - www.cob-net.org/docs/brethrenlife.htm - both PowerPoint Presentation and the Paper) - which the Quakers opened from the Yadkin River north across the Blue Ridge to the New River, through the "Virginia Mountains" (now West Virginia - the "New River Gorge") - following the Shawnee Indian Warpath to the Ohio River at Gallipolis OH. There it went to Chillicothe - Greenfield - Wilmington - Franklin - Gratis - Eaton - Richmond IN (Way Bill 1809). Indian roads went north from it at several places - into the Dayton area (the road was south of Dayton - Dayton was only a collection houses) From Rockingham Co a company would go south on the Valley Road to below Big Lick (Roanoke), there the Shawnee Indian Road came out - close to I-84. Some might go north to Hagarstown MD, and follow Braddocks Road to Uniontown PA, then west to Fort Henry (Wheeling WVa - route being called: "Cumberland Road"), or north from Uniontown to Pittsburgh - at either site, they might still go down the Ohio River, landing at the Bullskin (Clermont co OH - east of Cincinnati) and follow the Indian Road north - splitting and going either side of Dayton. The National Road (US40) was an extension of the Cumberland Road - across Ohio in 1825-8 - to Richmond IN - in 1835-6 being extended on to St Louis MO. Our families coming to the Four Mile Creek came on the Kanawha Trace from Franklin Co VA in 3 waves - 1805-6, 1811, 1818. They actually used an alternate of the Shawnee Indian WarPath from Beckley WVa down the Coal River to the Kanawha. (I've written a fiction of this trip - 1806 - with pictures - as "Nancy Lybrook's Journal" - [at the cob-net.org site] - Nancy was 15 years old that year.) On John Brower/Hannah Miller - their children were born in Rockingham Co Va between 1815 and 1833 - so this is not the correct John Brower, minister, in Preble Co OH during that time. Merle C Rummel