These Quaker Pidgeons arrived in North Carolina in 1783, but Isaac Pidgeon and Sara Milhous were probably married in the 1760s in either Pennsylvania or Virginia. Isaac was said to have come from England, but there is evidence that he might have come from Ireland.

Isaac Marion Pidgeon, a granson of the above Isaac,left North Carolina in 1831 and took his family to Illinois. In 1835 they crossed the Mississippi River and were amongst the first families to settle at Salem in Henry County, Iowa. A grandson Harry Pidgeon became only the second person to sail around the world single-handedly, in the 1920s.

Patrick Pigeon was born in 1844 in County Mayo, Ireland, the son of Patrick senior. After his father died, he emigrated with his mother Mary Pigeon (née DonLevy) to Wisconsin, USA about 1850, and settled first at Oconto and later in Marathon County.

Philip and Christopher Pidgeon were brothers, born in County Kilkenny, Ireland. In the late 1850s they emigrated to the USA and settled at Memphis, Tennessee. It is thought that Philip's family was wiped out by a yellow fever epidemic, but Christopher's descendants still live mostly in Tennessee.
 
 

Ann Pidgeon (born at Cullompton, Devon) and William Honey Cann were married at Topsham, near Exeter in 1869 before emigrating to the USA. After spending a year in New York City, the couple settled in Pennsylvania, first at Meadville and finally ay Oil City. Ann's brothers William and "George" Pidgeon followed her to the USA in 1872. They were both followed a year later by their wives and children. After setting initially at Meadville, PA they both moved to Rochester, New York, working in the shoe making business.

Samuel Pidgeon emigrated in 1888 and settled at Cleveland, Ohio.

Henry Pidgeon (born 1849 at Powderham) emigrated to Michigan in 1888 with his wife and family, and settled at Wilmot.

Mary Jane, the widow of Alfred Allen Pidgeon, emigrated in 1920 to Minnesota with her sons, but settled in Iowa. In 1828, her nephew Douglas Pidgeon followed her to Iowa, but later returned to England after an unsuccessful marriage.

Brothers John Hubert and Jonas PIDGEON changed their names to Hubert John "Chum" and James Gowing "Omey" MIDDLETON respectively and emigrated to New York and New Jersey about 1913.