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From: Mary Jean <>
Subject: Re: Trail Used from NW NJ to Susquehanna Co
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 22:41:54 -0500


At 10:04 PM 12/27/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>My family came from Connecticut by way of Orange Co., NY. At one time NE
>Pennsylvania was a part of the Connecticut charter. Pennsylvanians sent in
>"settlers" mostly Scots-Irish to try and stake a claim to the area. After
>some time a treaty was signed that gave the area to PA. That's probably not
>the best telling of it but it's the best I can do off the top of my head.
>If I had to guess the people from NW NJ probably followed the Delaware River
>and crossed into what is now Wayne County, PA or possible followed the
>Delaware to the Susquehanna and then into PA. My Skinner family came from
>Connecticut and is now spread widely over Orange, Sullivan, and Broome
>Counties in NY and in Susquehanna, Wayne and Pike Counties in PA.
>
>I hope to be taking over the Susquehanna County genweb site in the near
>future. Please feel free to give suggestions should that come to pass.
>
>Tim

Yep still a lot of Skinner names still in Broome County. mj
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Researching: Brown, Tewksbury, Wilmarth, Tiffany, Tingley,
Squires, Sterling all from Susquehanna Co., Pa.

http://home.stny.rr.com/brown/index.htm
http://members.xoom.com/mjwanc/~index.htm
http://members.xoom.com/Will2me/w~index.ht

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