My Mid-Atlantic ancestors tended to take one of two routes:
1] NY-NJ-PA-OH-IN.
or
2] Pennsylvania south into Maryland & Virginia before eventually swinging NW for Ohio & Indiana. The vast majority of the families in this group were Quakers.
#1 includes the families that started out in New England, as well as New York & Maryland.
Two prime examples:
Prall: The family settled on Staten Island, the moved to New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana.
Simmons: New York City was the family's original home in America. The Revolutionary War sent them to NJ & PA, before returning home. A move to upstate NY followed, then western Pennsylvania, the northern neck of Virginia, SW Ohio and on to central Indiana.
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