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From: "Pamelyn P. Bush" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Hunterdon.Migrants.
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:47:31 -0500
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This reminds me that several years ago, the Genealogical Society of NJ
devoted many issues of its genealogical magazine to the 1850 federal census
of states and territories other than NJ. The listing in each issue contained
the names of people who had migrated from NJ to other states but reported to
the census enumerator that they had been born in NJ. Well, it seems to fit
this topic but not specifically Hunterdon Co. By 1850 people could travel by
railroad, but earlier in the 19th century the Erie Canal and wagon train
were the way to go west over the Alleghany mountains to Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois and Michigan, and maybe stopping for a generation or two in one of
the NY western counties or western PA.
Pam



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