They could have sold/shipped their goods thru any port on Lake Ontario. The
best harbor and closest was probably Sodus.
Tom

Ian McGiver wrote:

> I have a question regarding the markets that would have been available to
> a cluster of New Englanders who in about 1789 settled the area that is now
> present-day East Bloomfield in Ontario County (NY).
>
> Does any one know where they would have sold/traded their first crops?
> And What were those first crops Wheat? Potash? Livestock?
>
> I ask this question because I am tracking the members of a single family
> who settled in several parts of the New York backcountry all at the same
> moment (1789). The other members of the family stayed much closer to
> Albany, and so they would have had relatively easy access to markets
> for their goods (which appear to have been wheat and potash). The
> brother who went to East Bloomfield got hold of very good land--but it
> would appear (to me at any rate) that he had far overstepped the limits of
> the Albany market. Where else might they have traded? were their any
> particular crops/products that were particular to that locale?
>
> thanks for suggestions
>
> Ian McGiver