Linda,
I was just today reading something which bears directly upon your comments
about your North Carolina Quaker ancestors and their migration.
This is from the book "Ohio Valley Genealogies" by Charles A. Hanna
(Genealogical Publishing Company, 1972):
"When we come to study these Quakers in detail, there is little to
differentiate those of one state from those of another (speaking of
migrations). They went in substantially the same way, but owing to
differences in location, pursued different routes. At first, North Carolina
Quakers went very largely to Tennessee, while Virginia Quakers, being nearer,
went directly upon to Ohio. In this way, Virginia Quakers took possession of
Ohio, while North Carolina Quakers pressed on to Indiana."
Hanna also cites Stephen Week's book, "Southern Quakers and Slavery", for
the
very interesting statistic that by 1850, fully one-third of the population of
Indiana was said to have been made up of native North Carolinians and their
children, caused by both those migrating Quakers and non-Quakers who
accompanied the Quakers for economic reasons.
Rochelle Rowlette