In my research, I have stumbled across a pattern that might apply to others in Wyoming Co. I am researching several Dutch families including QUICK, POST, VAN LIEW AND SCHENCK. Christopher Post was one of the earlier settlers in East Gainesville (Silver Springs), and the other families also came early 1800s. They all seemed to follow: Somerset, NJ > Auburn, NY > Wyoming Co. The first step was finding a terrific site with births from the Owasco Reformed Dutch Church. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ny/cayuga/churches/owasco-drc.txt This had all the surnames I mentioned above. Then, through genealogy.com, I accessed another list reprinted from "Somerset County Historical Quarterly vol VI" titled "Early Dutch Migrants from Somerset and Adjoining Counties". It was a copy of a subscription list of the building fund for the "Meeting House of the United Congregation of the Reform Low Dutch church at the Owasco Outlet", 3/10/1807. This was also know as Sand Beach church. Many of the same names were on this list. Finally, other searches of census, revolutionary war records and birth/baptism records show many of these same families in the Somerset and Monmoth NJ area during the colonial period. I am wondering of anyone else is tracking Dutch families that might have followed this same migration path. I am guessing that the move to Owasco might have been encouraged by the Revolutionary War bounty land grants. Then, were the Dutch more likely to buy from the Holland Land Co.? Were there ever Dutch churches or other organizations in Wyoming Co.? I would welcome discussion of this subject or specific examples that others have found. Randy Hume