Dear James, Thanks so much for this information. I read that soon after the Rev. War, John Cranmer walked from Morris Co. NJ to where Monroeton, near Tawanda, Bradford Co. PA and he must have gone that exact route. He cleared some land and planted a crop. Then he walked back to Morris Co. NJ. Along the way, he lost a shoe in a creek and had to walk the rest of the way back without a shoe. He had his foot full of thorns that had to be removed after he arrived home. The next year, his parents: Noadiah Cranmer and Catherine Haines/Haynes, his brother Stephen Cranmer and wife, Nancy ___, made the journey to Bradford Co. PA to settle. Probably those who started further inland in NJ and closer to the PA border made the migration via land up the Delaware etc. and those living closer to the shore in Monmouth, Middlesex etc. went the boat way to Albany and over. Jonas Guerin and his wife, Nancy Ann Ehle, left Morris Co. NJ in 1812 to go to Romulus, Seneca Co. NY and his cousin Mahlon Guerin was already there. I would guess they went the Delaware River way. The Guerins were blacksmiths and wagon makers, so my guess they would want to go over land. Interesting! Elsie At 10:36 AM 3/23/2007 -0400, you wrote: >While researching the Dorland book as many members of this and related >families did go from Morris Co, Somerset County New >Jersey etc.,Northampton Co >PA, as well as areas of New York up to the fingerlakes and then west over to >near Lake Erie, I discovered that they headed north on the trail up the >NJ side >of the Delaware River, then some crossed over around Easten PA and headed up >the Pa side of the Delaware River on that side before recrossing back over >into N.J. Most areas of the Delaware River are simply too shallow and rocky >for boat travel which is why the canal system existed in later years. At the >Delaware Valley Water Gap, travelers crossed back over to Port Jervis and >the >Old Mine Road, where Wayne and Pike Co's PA, Warren and Sussex NJ and Orange >and Sullivan NY. The Old Mine Road was believed to have been the first 100 >mile road built in American and begun by the Dutch as early as the 1600's. >There is an excellent map in C.G. Hine, History and Legend Fact, Fancy and >Romance of the Old Mine Road, Kingston, N.Y. to the Mine Holes of >Pahaquarry, >19008, and the Minisink Valley Historical Society, P.O. Box 659, Port >Jervis, NY >12772 has additional information.There was a lot of family traffic, both to >the fingerlakes region and then returning back to New Jersey, so once they >got there, they did not always remain, many returned back to N.J. or simply >traveled back and forth between locations. The Old Mine Roads still >exists and >if you do a Google Search you will find that there are many good articles on >this topic. > >Judy Cassidy > Elsie H. Wilson 5620 Harris Cir. Fitchburg, WI 53575 (608) 835-6791 ehwilson@charter.net