They said they did not sleep all night, leaving central Massachusetts at 2:30 a.m.
At 19, she left Massachusetts, joined a sister in Florida and became a waitress.
His family had settled there around 1763 after leaving Massachusetts.
He left Massachusetts at the age of 18 for new opportunities in the rapidly expanding West.
The original "pioneer party" left Massachusetts on July 17, 1854 and consisted of 29 men.
In about 1796, at sixteen years of age, he left Massachusetts and, on his own, moved to Kahnawake.
He began work as a bricklayer when he was 13, but needed to leave Massachusetts in the 1830s to pursue better economic opportunity.
He returned to Boston in 1781, and was never to leave Massachusetts again.
In their decisions to leave Massachusetts, most former residents cited high housing costs and a high cost of living.
Jane asked me how she was going to get her money if the graft took after she'd left Massachusetts.