sentences:  In the 1820s and 1830s migrants from New England began moving to what is now Indiana in large numbers (though there was a trickle of New England settlers who arrived before this date).These were “Yankee” settlers, that is to say they were descended from the English Puritans who settled New England during the colonial era.While most of them came to Indiana directly from New England, there were many who came from upstate New York.