Since I'll be taking a course on New England research in Salt Lake, I thought I'd line up the families from that region of the colonies. Yes, colonies! The last of my NE clans were in America by 1700. By the Revolutionary War, the majority were either still in NE or had migrated to New York & New Jersey. 1800 saw them in the Mid-Atlantic States and heading for the Ohio Territory.
Approximately 70-75 families found their way from the British Isles to New England between 1620 & 1700. Maybe 10-15% were from Wales, Scotland & Ireland, while the rest were from England. One family's origin, Welch or Dutch, is still being debated.
The vast majority settled in Massachusetts Bay & Plymouth, while Connecticut & Rhode Island came later as welcomes wore out in the former two colonies.
Descendants of those 70-odd families migrated west into Ohio, Indiana & Kentucky by the early to mid-1800s.
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