The Massachusetts Bay Company And Its Predecessors

Download or read book The Massachusetts Bay Company and Its Predecessors written by Frances Rose-Troup and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Orleans County, New York, situated in the northwestern corner of the state along Lake Ontario was a staging area for a vast westward migration of persons associated with various religious denominations who were seeking greater opportunities in Ohio, Illinois, and the other states of the Old Northwest Territory. The bulk of Arad Thomas's account of Orleans County consists of histories of the following principal towns and villages of Orleans County: Barre, Albion, Carlton, Clarendon, Gaines, Kendall, Murray, Holley, Hulberton, Hindsburgh, Ridgeway, Medina, Knowlesville, Shelby, and Yates. The genealogical meat of the volume can be found in the roughly 300 biographical sketches that are distributed at the end of the town and village profiles.