 After arriving in New York, a number of families whose male members were quarrymen in the old country, went to the slate quarries of New York and Vermont, but the majority of them turned their faces "Westward," a word taken as their motto before leaving their native land.The next portion of the journey from New York to Albany was made on a steamboat.From Buffalo they took passage over the lakes on board a steamboat named "Wisconsin", the name possibly being the means of drawing them to that particular boat; for that state was their "promised land."