Cheryl, In reading about the history of Erie County Ohio, there seem to have been a lot of folks from Cayuga NY who settled there in the 1830's & 1840's. That area along with several other counties made up the Connecticut Western Reserve. Following are my notes on this: According to Vol V, June 1864, "Fire Lands Pioneer" (Fire Lands Historical Society, Norwalk Huron Co OH), Pg 93: "The Connecticut Western Reserve, sometimes called New Connecticut, is situated in the northeast part of the state [Ohio]. and extends from the Pennsylvania State line west 120 miles to the southeast corner of what is now Huron county; ..." and is bounded on the north by Lake Erie, on the east by the Pennsylvania line, on the south by the 41st degree of north latitude, and on the west by Sandusky and Seneca counties." "The name, Fire Lands, originated from the fact that the State of Connecticut granted these lands in the year 1793, as a donation to certain sufferers by fire, occasioned by the English, during the Revolutionary war..." Pages 39 -44 list many of the early settlers MANY OF WHOM WERE FROM CAYUGA COUNTY NY Jean Atherton Vineyard Researching: Atherton, Vineyard, Taylor, Burgess, Fulkerson, Dodd, Cummings, Paxton, Osborn, Kim, Shields and others in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, West Virginia -----Original Message----- From: Cheryl Morris [mailto:camorris@mars.ark.com] Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2000 1:30 PM To: NYCAYUGA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NYCAYUGA] Migrations to Ohio, Illinois and MO 1830's Hi, I am trying to find migration groups from Cayuga County in the latter 1830's to MO probably via Ohio and Illinois. I am especially interested in families moving from the Sempronius area. The main migration group that comes to mind is the Mormon migration, but I do not have any information that the Burgess family members from Sempronius who I am tracing were part of that migration -- they may or may not have been. They would have been in the Illinois/Missouri area by 1839. There are known cousins who were in Ashtabula County, Ohio in the 1830's. Any help with other surnames leaving from Cayuga and in particular, Sempronius, then would be appreciated. The two Burgess men, Jonathan and Joel Willis Burgess, were among the youngest from a large family and there might be married sisters who also left. Very little is known about this Burgess line. ______________________________