Karen - at the moment as your message came in go here - in the Sutton - Putnam pages this will have all the links you may want to follow Nice Timing - Putnam to OHIO - with The Ohio Company A must for all with Scotch Irish roots and others And those whose ancestors moved out of CT and Mass [or to western Mass - ] http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Pines/4289/ and for those who had ancestors disappear - and then suface in the south.. the following very informative as to the reasons they migrated http://mcnet.marietta.edu/~Bbc/page8.html