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Subject: [LDR] Migrations from Virginia to Delaware and beyond
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 14:31:55 EDT


Would anyone care to expound on the possibility of a person (or persons)
leaving Virginia for Sussex County Delaware then perhaps heading out to Ohio or
one of the other mid-western states?

I ask because I am theorizing about my Chandler family line. They are very
hard to track as they apparently were neither landowners nor well educated
and getting beyond my g-great grandfather has been a trial.

By using Census records and from the few stories about the family that I
remember my grandfather telling, I strongly suspect that my Chandler line
started, perhaps, on the mainland of Virginia, stopping for perhaps a couple
decades in Accomack County, Virginia, then coming up to Sussex County, Delaware
around 1820 or 1830.

I have heard a tale of three brothers who came ashore at Broadkiln, but I've
yet to hear the tale in it's entirety. With what information I have, it
appears that one of these Chandler's went on to Ohio between 1820 and 1840.
Another Chandler seems to have started the dynasty that has produced William B.
Chandler,III. My line seems to have taken the path of poverty, with the most
recent 2 generations getting to high school and beyond.

Would there be job availability in these areas? Better, more fertile land
here? I tend to doubt there was anything like running from the law as reason
for the moves.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Teresa A. Derrickson

Searching for Chandler, Johnson and Merrick families

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