About 1800 they started their journey into the interior, having all their possessions in a wagon drawn by a pair of horses. Thus they journeyed on, living in their wagon and by the aid of the gun and fishing rod, their only means of support, until they reached a place
near where Varna is now located, from whence they cut their way through the woods to their destination and settled on Lot 14, where James Lumbard now lives, living in their wagon until a log house could be erected. Eight children were born to them, six girls and two boys, Mary, Catharine, Sarah, Betsey, Amy, Cable, Samuel, and Ann, who married William Skillings."