Colonial Immigration: Adopted vs. Birth Families

 Working on two separate family groups, adopted and birth, have made for some interesting comparisons.

For the most part, my adopted families arrived between 1620 and 1700. A few arrived during the mid-1700s. The McHughs arrived during the 1830s and finally, Catherine O'Neill arrived in 1852.

A sizable number of individuals who arrived during the "Great Migration" settled in New England [Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Rhode Island, Connecticut]. The Dutch and Huguenots landed in what would become New York. Quaker families called Pennsylvania home before migrating south into Virginia,

New England, New York, Pennylvania and Virginia folks headed for Ohio before settling in Indiana. [1824-1876 and 1913] 

My birth families wee a completely different breed. There was some New England and New York settlement between the 1630s and the late 1600s. Several families landed in Pennsylvania, then migrated to what would become Kentucky or into Virginia.  A large number of the immigrants first called Virginia home, the western Carolinas and eastern Kentucky.

Nearly all of the families settled in Kentucky after the Revolutionary War and started migrating into southern Indiana shortly after statehood in 1816. Those families that drifted into Indiana from northern environs arrived in territorial Indiana, settling in old Knox County.

The "birth families" were well established in the frontier regions by the Revolutionary War. There is that one exception: Charles Everhart found his way to America in 1820.

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