I too am a Tompkins County Native but left at age 3. But my mother was descended from these first settlers of Seneca Co. They had teamstered with General Sullivan in the Rev. War and decided to move north from Bucks Co, PA/NJ. She also has Conn Yankee ancestry--Bennett, Sherman, Bassett (first witch executed in America) etc. They WALKED to and fro to settle in NY and court their CT beaus and marry and bring the family west. I think this is an incredible feat.