Ohio

And the Lord said, "Thou shalt leave the East and South and settled in the land called Ohio." Not to make light of the Bible, but it seems that stopping off in Ohio was a requirement. Granted, if you were coming from the Eastern seaboard, you had to skirt Ohio via the Ohio River or cross it to reach lands to the west. But it seems that every one of families lived there for an extended period of time.

Ohio was granted statehood in 1803. By that time several families called the territory home. In 1795, recently widowed Seth Hurin joined several of his children, including his son Othneil, on the trip down the Ohio to Cincinnati. They were accompanied by his in-laws, John and Anna [Lockwood] St. John, whose daughter, Bethia, had married Othneil Hurin.

John and Eve Faucett left Pennsylvania in late 1797. By the time they reached Cincinnati, a son [Joseph] had been born.

The Clarks and Millers would arrive around 1807-1810.

The 1820s saw an influx of families into Ohio. By 1820, the Crousore, Smiths, Reels and Reeders were in Clinton Co. Henty Woary and Elizabeth Rogers arrived in 1821. Their children would remain in Ohio off and on until the end of the century. Members of the highly mobile Simmons family spent from 1821 until 1847 in Ohio. The equally mobile Crails were in Ohio during the late 1820s and the 1830s.

Last, but not least, most of Isaac Rittenhouse Prall's children left York Co., PA for Ohio between 1865 and 1868. His youngest, Hugh, would leave for Grant Co., IN in 1877.