The "Old Northwest Territory" consisted of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. This was one of the first western areas open for settlement after the American Revolution. These areas were then jumping off points for further westward expansion into places like Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Kansas, and then on to Oregon! Some Warren County Families in my data base who settled in these areas include: Andrew and Phebe (Read) Kirkpatrick and all their children to Guernsey County, Ohio circa 1807; their descendants end up in Kansas and in Oregon and California John and Eleanor (Miller) Perry and all their children to Oakland County, Michigan 1824. Richard and Levi Read (brpthers) to Oakland, and later Lapeer, County, Michigan 1837 (they married Perry daughters) they may have gone with their aunt Sarah Middlesworth (next entry) John and Sarah (Read) Middlesworth and all their children, as well as part of the Cummins family to Argentine Township, Genesee County, Michigan 1837-1840 Joseph Reed (a widower) and some of his children, Stoney Creek Township, Henry County, Indiana 1836-1838. His grandson, Joseph Reed Haggerty, Farm Hill, Olmsted County, Minnesota, date unknown. Joseph Haggerty did not go to Indiana with his grandfather, he appears to have left for Minnesota from Warren County. Jonah Read to Ohio (county unknown) 1868 The Martin family: David R. and Drusilla (Everitt) Martin in Ohio in the 1860s, county unknown. Baltis K. and Lidia A. (Martin) Wintermute, Musatine County, Iowa some time after 1860. Jonathan O. and Sarah (Lundy) Martin, Iowa, in the 1860s possibly earlier. Baltis and Sarah (Martin) Keen, possibly to Iowa. William Darius Lanterman, in Indiana in the 1860s, later settled in Jay County, Indiana. William and Nancy (Coursen) Sharp, Jasper County, Illinois 3rd quarter of the nineteenth century. Isaac R. Raub in Calhoun, Albion County Michigan by 1876. William W. and Annie (Armstrong) Read, Chardon, Ohio after 1879. However, concentrating on the "Old Northwest Territory" only tells half the story. There was also significant migration to the Fingers Lakes Region of Upstate, New York in the late eighteenth century when this area was first open for settlement. And, as unglamorous as it may sound, Luzerne, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, and Wyoming Counties in Northeastern Pa were a major destination for Warren Countians in the 19th century. Esther Read

To add to what Esther just wrote, check the names in the Melpine Cemetery, Muscatine County, Iowa: http://www.rootsweb.com/~iamusca2/melpine.htm Jan Reuther