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

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 > >