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From: jay cline <>
Subject: [MDFR] migration from NY to PA and Maryland
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 15:07:28 -0500


hello all..
some weeks ago there was a question about the probable route of the
migration
from NY into PA and i was swept away in conjecture.
in 1677 a delegation from Maryland to the Iroquios Nation went by ship
from New
Castle, DE to Albany...to conduct treaty talks..
but having been to Albany on business with in the last year I was struck
by the
relatively simple route ( considering the wagons necessary) :
down the Hudson River Valley to the vicinity of Tarrytown, Sleepy
Hollow, Nyack
and from there south into New Jersey and then west to the Burlington
area and across the Delaware from there into our amazing long Valleys
that run from there south and west past Lancaster and York into
Maryland and Virginia
but...
as usual, I was wrong..
i just found an excerpt from the journals of Conrad Weiser, of PA
History fame, which asserts that in 1723 due to trouble between the
English and the Germans of the Schoharie Valley, the Germans went west,
cutting a new road to the headwaters
of the Susquehanna River and then built canoes to float families and
possessions
down the Susquehanna River until they could reach the Tulpehocken Valley
of PA.
They drove their cattle down the S. River Valley .. This was the
"Warrior's Path" and gives ample justification for subsequent usage
calling parts of that path "the German Road"
the only towns they would have encountered on this route would have been
Mohawk, Tuscarora, or Mingo (Susquehannok) That they chose this route is
astounding to me..
www.rootsweb.com/~pajcwfa/ephrata1.htm
this is a very interesting site


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