DJM- Just curious - what was the family name who settled in Hermitage. I have/had a whole slew of Ramsey's (and associted names) in Hermitage. Any connection? Thanks, Gina ----- Original Message ----- From: "DANIEL MURRAY" <themurer@comcast.net> To: <ohcuyaho@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 3:57 PM Subject: [OHCUYAHO] how did folks arrive at Ohio from Britain 1850s > Don't forget rail transportation from the East coast. > > Here is a copy from a letter written by my grt grandmother upon her > arrival in West Middlesex Pa. [a coal-mining town across the state line > near Youngstown, Ohio]: > > "West Middlesex, Mercer County, PA America > July 25, 1869 Shenandoah Valley > Dear Parents: > I write you these few lines to let me (you) know that I have arrived at > my journeys end, we are all well & I hope this wll find you all enjoying > the same blessing - thanks be to God for this goodness to us. We left > Norville on the Saturday at 5 o'clock in the evening and had a slow but > good passage & arrived in New York on Monday morning. I had a letter > wrote but I had not time to post it for I was anxious to catch the train > to Hermitage." > > Norville is a port near Edinburgh, Scotland. > > djm > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > OHCUYAHO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message