I believe that my ancestors who came in 1833 to Kortright had been contacted in County Down by a representative of the Kortrights, who were looking for settlers. My grgrgrandparents, William and Isabella Gibson, arrived with seven sons and two daughters-in-law. They later had another son. Strangely enough, I haven't found any Gibson descendants with the surname still in the area. Catherine Gibson Havemeier >From: Valerie Brown <vwbrown08@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com >To: nydelawa@rootsweb.com >Subject: [NYDELAWA] For the Scots, why Delaware County? >Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 05:09:47 -0700 (PDT) > >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