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This may not help you but it is interesting -
my interest was the BADGER family (not my family - just researching for a friend)
From the biography of William WRIGHT
HARLEM TOWNSHIP Stephenson Co, IL
http://www.illinoisancestors.org/stephenson/harlembiolist.html
WILLIAM WRIGHT, farmer, Sec. 12; P. 0. Freeport born in Union Co., Penn., on the 27th Sept., 1820 ; started with his father, Samuel Wright, and family, from Pennsylvania, in 1843, with a party consisting of fifty-four persons as follows : John Barber's family, consisting of ten persons ; Samuel B. Barber's family, consisting of five persons ; James W. Barber's family, consisting of ten persons ; John Vandyke and sons' family, consisting of eleven persons; Samuel Wright's family, consisting of five persons ; Jacob Gable's family, consisting of six persons ; and Robert Badger's family, consisting of seven persons; this party started on the 28th of May and arrived on the 4th of July, 1843, being five and a half weeks on the way , their route took them through Mercer Co.; they crossed the Allegheny River at Franklin, passed up through Warren, Ohio, to Cleveland, and from Lower Sandusky crossed into Adrian, Mich; in crossing the Maumee, Mrs. Badger had a fit from fright, and died next day ; the party passed Janesville, Mich., and Hillsdale to South Bend, Ind., to Michigan City, across the Calumette to Chicago, through Rockford, where the party divided. William Wright's party reached Stephenson Co. he then settled on his brother Pascal's claim, of which he now owns 104 acres. He has held Town Clerk's office, and is a Republican in politics. He was married in July to Miss E. J. Runner, of Pennsylvania ; they have one child S. Merrill Wright.
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