John, Some of our ancestors came from New England, to Va. for a time, then into NC. Grandma's take: They came from Va. thru NC by covered wagon (to La. & Ms.) I was a little tot & it was many years before I realized there were several hundreds of years between moves! ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Page" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 7:13 PM Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants > Has anyone heard of immigrants coming down to Eastern NC from NJ or New > England? I am a participant in a family name DNA testing project and the > men in the test group who are not relatives who have the nearest DNA match > to mine are descendents of immigrants to NJ and NE. Some believe our > families ancestors came down from VA, but the DNA testing so far does not > support that conclusion. > > Regards, John Page > > -----Original Message----- >>From: William Mallory <[email protected]> >>Sent: Nov 1, 2006 1:33 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: Re: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants >> >>Some of the earliest groups to arrive, coming over in the 1730s, were >>Scots-Irish from Ulster, who came up the NE Cape Fear and Black Rivers. >>They >>were followed by many English settlers from the Roanoke River and Onslow >>County, Welsh from Delaware, Germans and Swiss from New Bern, French >>Huguenots and Scottish Highlanders. >> >>W.M. Mallory >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >>On Behalf Of Aubry Simpson >>Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:38 PM >>To: [email protected] >>Subject: [NCDUPLIN] Immigrants >> >>Where did the residents of Duplin county prior to the 1790 census >>immigrate >>from? >> >>Aubrey Simpson >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes >>in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >