This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/jUB.2ACI/1103 Message Board Post: Hi, Can anyone hazard an educated guess as to why my ancestor, David Youngs b.1775, was motivated to leave Suffolk Co. abt. 1796 to come up here to upstate NY? This area was wilderness then! Roland Hanke