The following was forwarded to me. "In the winter of 1786-1787 (with the consent of Revolutionary New Jersey) a large convoy (46 families) of United Empire Loyalist (UEL) refugees was being organized at Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey. Almost all the members of this loyalist refugee convoy came from Sussex County, New Jersey, itself. March 1787 the refugee convoy took off north for Niagara via Indian Trails through the wilderness. From Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey to the Finger Lakes district of New York. Then they turned west toward Niagara near present Syracuse, New York. When the refugee column reached the Niagara River in the summer of 1787, about half the families were ferried across from Fort Niagara to Newark (Niagara on Lake Ontario, North or Lower end of the river) and half were ferried across from Buffalo, New York to Fort Erie (South or Upper end of the river)." It would appear that many other families followed within a few years and many families in the 1790's. I have been amazed at the number of Sussex County families I am researching and a branch seems to disappear about that time frame and I find them in Ontario. J. Kelsey Jones