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Subject: [DESUSSEX] Some DE HASTINGS families possibly Quakers?
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:43:01 EDT

I just sent something into the ether without a subj. or message - Sorry
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I was about to 'paste' the following to reiterate my hypothesis re early
HASTINGS families as Quakers, though they may have married into other
denominations later, and the ones I know good Christians, whether Presb.,
Bapt. etc. who denounced slavery.-

(almost exclusively with Old Testament given names) must have derived from
the lines in PA. Wm. Penn formed DE from the Lower Three Counties of PA in
1682. Pulled from 'Google' - "Penn realized that much of the land towhich
he had been given a royal charter was held by the Delaware (LeniLenape)
Indians. Although the document has not survived, it is believed thatin 1682
Penn signed a treaty with the natives who occupied the land payingthem a fair
value for its use by settlers." Voltaire wrote, "It was the only treaty made
by the settlers with the Indians that was never sworn to, and the only one
that was never broken."

To strengthen my idea, I have not found that my immediate line in DE (James
HASTINGS m. Alafare BENNETT ca 1800) held any slaves.

Does anyone in touch with the Quaker communities in eastern OH - Mt.
Pleasant? Barnesville? - have record of any of them migrating from Delaware
or Maryland + or - 1800?


Margaret Hastings Hendrix - Mostly searching DE/MD ca.1750 Obadiah HASTINGS
(d.1820-30) et al. - 'Block Wall'

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