A Northern Diaspora

Migration Routes: Colonial America → Canada → The Midwest

Migration Phases

Phase 1 (1700s-1840s): Colonial America - North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania

Phase 2 (1840s-1850s): Canada - Queen's Bush, York (Toronto), Elgin Settlement (Buxton)

Phase 3 (1860s-1910s): Midwest - Illinois (Chicago area), Michigan (Ypsilanti), Nebraska (Overton, DeWitty)

These families did not begin in one place. They were formed across borders—legal, racial, and geographic. This map traces their movement northward, seeking freedom, land, and community across three generations and three nations' worth of territory.