[email protected] wrote: > I wish I could trace my ancestors to New England. Perhaps someone on these lists know who the very early > emigrants were to these areas. There were a number of families that came from CT to So. NJ. Circa 1695-1700 there were rumblings of discontent among people who originally came as result of the activities of The New Haven Company which had the rights to settle CT, which of course was not the same as today, and The Massachusetts Bay Colony, Inc.. Some of this was due to religious persecution, and some other factors included work assignments, property allocations, etc. Many Quaker families came by this route. The West Jersey Society advertised the benefits of moving to So. NJ to attract settlers, much the same as a developer would solicit buyers to a housing tract today. I admit to not recording the specific sources of this information, but it was encountered in the process of searching one of my early lines in So. NJ-- BARBER. Checking sources which detail the activities of any of the above organizations should yield some clues. My own verification came from finding deed information which mentioned their CT origins and then finding their CT locales. If anyone has a BARBER in their data, I would most like to exchange information. Jeff Owens