I'd like to know if there is .. I still don't know if my McLaughlins came directly to Otsego Co. in the 1790s where one son married into the Holmes family from CT, close neighbors in the town of Richfield, OR whether they met in CT and traveled into central NY together!!! On Jun 27, 2007, at 3:00 PM, <kittim@suddenlink.net> wrote: > Now you raise an interesting issue. I know that my ancestor left for > America from Liverpool (which is odd to start with - should have been > Glasgow, I'm told), so I assumed that he arrived in NYCity. However, > I've never found him on any of the passenger lists of the day for NYC. > I didn't look at the lists for anywhere else because I thought they > were too far away for Del Co to be the destination of choice. However, > I suppose he could have gone to Boston. I don't think there's a major > port in CT - is there? > Kitti Michalowicz > > ---- Gabrielle Pierce <gbpierce@frontiernet.net> wrote: > > ============= > Legend has it that they landed in Delaware county because it so > resembled > their mother land. There was somewhat of a beaten path from > Connecticut, > etc., where they'd landed by ship, to come here to settle. > > ~~Gabrielle Pierce, former Town of Hamden Historian > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Valerie Brown" <vwbrown08@yahoo.com> > To: <nydelawa@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2007 8:09 AM > Subject: [NYDELAWA] For the Scots, why Delaware County? > > >> My ancestors came to Delaware county about 1842 and >> 1851 from Roxburgshire, Scotland. There are about 33 >> hits for "Roxburg" or "Roxburghsire" on the Delaware >> county web-site. Can anyone tell me what the big >> attraction was to Delaware county, especially Bovina, >> over other counties in NY state that drew so many >> people from one county in Scotland? >> Thank you. >> ~Valerie >> >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> ______________ >> Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: >> mail, >> news, photos & more. >> http://mobile.yahoo.com/go?refer=1GNXIC >> To contact list administrator send email to >> nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > To contact list administrator send email to > nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > To contact list administrator send email to > nydelawa-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYDELAWA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >