If the list owner OKs a roll call, please be sure to put the SURNAMEs in the subject line. Makes it a lot easier to follow. Regards Virginia ----- Original Message ----- From: "E B Herron" <ebherron@home.com> To: <OHCLERMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 5:08 AM Subject: HERRON migration from Lancaster, PA to New Richmond 1816 > I strongly support the idea of a roll call re migration to > Clermont County. > > From a HERRON (HERON) biography: > > "Glowing accounts of the new Northwest Territory had for > years been traveling eastward, and in 1816 John HERRON > determined to remove thither. With his family he crossed > the mountains in the great Conestoga wagons of that time, > and took raft at Pittsburgh for Cincinnati. In accordance > with previous arrangement with former neighbors he found his > way to Clermont County, and purchased a farm near the Ohio > River, where he passed the remainder of his life." > > I would love to know who his neighbors were. > > Regards, > > Ed in CA > > > ============================== > Search over 64,000,000 records in the Social Security Death Index: > http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/ > > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.193 / Virus Database: 93 - Release Date: 9/19/00