Here are a couple of questions for you folks who know the history of this part of Ohio? Is there any particular reason that settlers from a long ways away would have been drawn to the Jefferson-Belmont-Guernsey region in the 1820s? From what I've been able to determine, there wasn't major new settlement going on in the area, land giveaways, or other obvious incentives. Coupled with why they came, how were they most likely to get there? This would have been a little before the Erie Canal was completed, and it sounds like the National Road wasn't much of a road yet. I ask this because several New Brunswick, Canada, families came to the area in the early 1820s [maybe a little before 1820 for some of them]. I suspect some family followed other family who had come first, but why would the first ones have come? It doesn't seem like an area that New Brunswick folks would know much about. The question of how they got there is prompted by what seems to me an amazingly quick trip made by one of our families, that of John McCULLY. John, his wife Mary [COPP], and 4 boys under 10 [including a newborn] left New Brunswick [Saint John, or possibly Eastport, Maine] after their son John Wilmer McCULLY was born 22 May 1821. By 30 Jul 1822 John was "of Warren Township" [Jefferson County], and had signed a deed for land in Smithfield Township. How did they do it? Sandy Wilbur Gresham, OR