In a message dated 7/8/2001 7:31:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Do we have a cluster pattern > we could follow to see if groups of families settled together in the new > state, maybe because they were relatives or neighbors in Franklin County? > Good possibilities here. Does anyone know more? > > Franklin County is in the Northern Tier, between St. Lawrence and Clinton Counties with the Province of Quebec for its northern border. Stueben County is on the Southwestern tier with Pennsylvania as its southern border. Since Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) was established long before the revolution, the trail west through their was well used. Access to three major rivers didn't hurt this process. The area in Northern New York was not conducive to westward migration, however. Mac