Bob, You have added another interesting migration pattern out of the Minisink. There have to be others. I hope others will post them to the lists. It would be a great topic. When they left, where they went. Helen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert and Tracie Lefler" <[email protected]> To: "Helen Graves" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [NJSUSSEX-L] Shoemaker, Isaac - Elizabeth Brink - Swartwood connection? > And just to add to this, some Lefler/Leffler families migrated out of > Hunterdon/Sussex(Oxford area) to Stroud,Pa, and thence up to North > Hector,Seneca Co,NY and down to Tioga Co,Pa around 1820. Other families > that > went up there were: Ayres/Bryant/Corsett/Updyke and?? Bob Lefler----- > Original Message ----- > From: "Helen Graves" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 7:15 PM > Subject: [NJSUSSEX-L] Shoemaker, Isaac - Elizabeth Brink - Swartwood > connection? > > >> Hi Kaye, >> >> There were other Minisink families who left the area not long after the > Rev. >> War and migrated to Tioga and Chemung Counties in NY -- some with a brief >> stop of a few years at "Wyomee" (the Wyoming Valley, Luzerne Co., PA). >> >> My Swartwout families did, as did VanEttens, Shoemakers, Deckers, and >> others. One who migrated was James Swartwood (in PA and NJ he was > Jacobus >> Swartwout, but after he arrived in Tioga Co., NY, he became James >> Swartwood). >> >> James Swartwood's daughter Mary b 10 Jan 1774 in Delaware twp., Pike Co., >> PA, married Isaac SHOEMAKER Jr., who was born about 1770. It appears >> they >> married c. 1799-1800, so likely they married after they got to Tioga Co., >> NY. A daughter Elizabeth was born in 1803 in VanEtten, Tioga Co., NY. >> >> Isaac and Mary (Swartwood) Shoemaker lived in Erin, Chemung Co., NY. >> When >> Mary's father James Swartwood reached his 80s, he moved in with them in > Erin >> and died there at age 93+. Isaac Shoemaker was the executor of what was >> left of his estate (not much). Isaac Shoemaker Jr. died 24 Feb 1850 in > Erin >> and was buried in the Scotchtown Cemetery. His widow Mary (Swartwood) >> Shoemaker died 30 May 1855 and is also buried in Scotchtown Cemetery. >> >> I have not researched Isaac Shoemaker Jr. (1770-1850) so I do not know > who >> his parents were back in PA (or maybe Sussex Co., NJ). Is it possible > that >> he was the son of your Isaac Shoemaker and Elizabeth Brink? >> >> Are there others on the lists whose Minisink families made the same >> migration to Tioga and Chemung Co's NY between 1785-1800? >> >> Helen Graves >> >> >> > > >