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