My 3rd Great Grandfather, Able Jay Hubble left Connecticut and settled in Cramahe sometime before 1819. In winter of 1844 his daughter Mary and her husband Elias Williams made a 300 mile trip Michigan. Her father and some of her siblings followed. I am wondering: Why would someone move from Connecticut to Cramahe and then why brave a winter trip to Michigan? In other words, what was the draw to Ontario and then what made them leave? I'm sure there are many possible reasons, but was there some historical or political reason for such migrations?

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Page 17 of the 1861 Census for the Village of Colborne, Ont. shows the name of a Head Master & his Asst. as well as the names of 45 students ranging in age from 7 yrs to 26 yrs. Does anyone have any idea what type of Institution this might have been and during what period it may have operated?

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