Do any of you have connections to Mulligan families in central Vermont or Springfield MA? Trying to expand my Mulligan tree beyond William Patrick Mulligan, who came to the US as a small boy in the 1840s. He married a Vermont Yankee, Lettie BROWN of Worcester VT. I think the rest of the family stayed in the Springfield area of Massachusetts. "Bill" Mulligan worked in the "stone sheds" (granite quarries) in Barre VT most of his adult life. He and Lettie had only one child, daughter Lorraine Mulligan DOUGLAS.

alot throughout CT which is close. Also alot of Mulligan's in Rhode Island and New Hamphshire. I am looking for Thomas Mulligan pre 1850 born in CT married to Catherine (poss Sears or Ryan/Riley last name. My great grandfather was John who married Anna Riley from Mass. I found alot around Bershires and Boston too. I suspect because of common letter in Middle name Henry will be grand parent and possibly Luke. Will share. Also found alot in Ontario. They used the Vermont trail to cross for many years.

Thank you for your reply. I'll record those names and get in touch again if I come up with any leads for you. What do you mean, in your last sentence, when you write that they used the Vermont trail to cross? To cross from Ontario into Vermont? And is "Vermont trail" an actual (geographic) route, as in "Vermont Trail"?

My mother told me of a route many used to cross and called it the Vermont Trail. Timing mattered because of water levels on some river. I recently decided to go and tackle a literally 7 foot high stack of paper notes compiled over the last 30 years of research, discovering not only I need to take time to update all the facts I found and never adjusted. Somewhere in that stack is a story about the Vermont Trail, Also many Ontario kin have family in states like Maine, Vermont, NH, , THE WHITE MOUNTAINs area,Mass, Ct, NY, really any boarding the Great Lakes. I sure a google research may help too. My mother went up every year via train mostly and her recollections would have been 1930's and 40's. When I find the stuff I found on it will forward. If love History read about the Great Fire in late 1700 in lower Can. Grosse Island is a must too! Respectfully, a fellow lifetime researcher