The majority of my Quaker ancestors who migrated from Pennsylvania to Virginia were farmers.
Casper Rinker, whose family hailed from Switzerland, held a sizable amount of farmland in Virginia, but also ran an inn - visited on more than one occasion by George Washington.
Peter Trisler, of Wittenburg, Germany and Jessamine Co., KY, was a somewhat eccentric physician.
The Sension/St. John line was involved in the textile industry before coming to America [tailor, button maker] and farmers in New England, New York and Ohio. There was one innkeeper in the mix.
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