Hi Marilyn, There does seem to be a couple of different migrations to Clark County/Champaign County from NJ and other points going on. And I hope someone can jump in and correct this if my surmises are wrong!!! 1.) In the middle 1700s, groups left NJ to go to Virginia (a Baptist group, Quakers, who else?) *A. from Virginia Frontier Defenses, 1719-1795 by Roy Bird Cook* *Forts in the Virginia (now West Virginia) area: * *http://www.wvculture.org/HISTORY/journal_wvh/wvh1-2-4.html* *SALEM - A blockhouse situated on the site of New Salem, now Salem, erected by a group of settlers of Salem, New Jersey. * *B. http://www.maxson2000.net/janehm2.htm* *The Seventh Day Baptists joined the westward migration. A group of Sabbatarians, which included Joseph, 1692- 1747 and Bethiah, 1693-1747 (Maxson) Maxson and some of their children sailed to Shrewsbury, N.J. where a church had been established. Later members traveled to New York, settling first in Madison County, then, as the trails opened, moving to Allegany County.* *In each town that these Seventh Day Baptists settled, they established a church. In some towns academies were begun, several of them turning into colleges and universities. Of the latter, Salem (now Salem-Teikyo) College in West Virginia, Alfred University in New York and Albion College in Wisconsin were all founded by Sabbatarian congregations.* *The Hopkinton Seventh Day Baptist Church still holds services each Saturday in the village of Ashaway, R.I. If you have a Hiscox, Burdick, Coon or Stillman in your family tree, chances are that your ancestors ministered in this congregation along with the early Maxson men. *(Coon married into my Husted line in Iowa...) ** 2) In the 1770s I have recently found out that some Indian treaties with Virginia opened up lands beyond the ridge of the Appalachians, which "broke" the Kings Proclamation Line and some people moved then. Lord Dunsmore's War of 1774 also exposed large group of men to the Ohio/Kentucky areas. 3) About 1805ish there seems to be another group that left NJ and came to Champaign County area. I believe that is the time that Joseph Newcomb Husted's family came there - directly from NJ. My John Husted (some relation to Joseph, but how exactly is unclear at the time to me) came about the same time - by way of Virginia. It is entirely possible he also was born in the NJ area.... Kathie Some family names that married into the Husteds: Bacon, Feris/Faris, McDaniel/McDonald, Greathouse, Davis, Ford, Ferguson, Hawk, Taylor, Harris, Stanley, Haneline/Hanley, etc.... On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:07 PM, <GNEOLOG@aol.com> wrote: > > In a message dated 3/5/2008 10:53:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, > w420@earthlink.net writes: > > Whatever the story, these families did settle in what became Bethel > Township. > > > > So there is no telling where my Joseph Allen was between his birth in 1800 > and his marriage in 1822. UGH. Take care all, Marilyn > > > > **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & > Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CLARK-CHAMPAIGN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- M. Kathleen Felsted mkfelsted@gmail.com