My first American ancestors immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 for political reasons. Then they immigrated to Nantucket. Others came in that time to Penn with Penn. They were Quakers. Those all started moving west in the late 18th c....then to Illinois. Some came to the Midwest from upper Bavaria and From between Amsterdam and Hamburg in the 19th c....
My husband and I moved to first SFBay area in 1969, 2 years later to NM where we’ve lived ever since....now and then we migrate back here!