FYI - There was a terrible economic depression in the 1820s in Upstate NY. Also, after the Erie Canal opened, many people boarded flatboats and headed with their possessions to Ohio where they then joined wagon trains into Indianna and Illinois. My family landed in Ohio and then bought a team of oxen that they drove to Chicago, camping in the immigrant camp on the bank of the Chicago River while my g3gf trekked to what is now the northwestern suburbs of the city to homestead in 1837 and found towns there. Others in the family went into Ohio (Clarksfield) and stayed a few years, then moved on westward. Some of the children married in Ohio and stayed. They were Carleys, Barnums, VanHoutens, Cadys. Do you have any hanging in your tree? Judy Schreiber