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From: "M. Hendrix" <>
Subject: Re: Colonial Families of Delaware
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 18:26:21 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <bf.707bf84f.320a0237@aol.com>

What was the criteria for being an authentic Colonial person of DE or MD ? HOH? Beginning and ending when? Landowner? Tithe payer? Baptism? Marriage?
Margaret Hastings Hendrix

wrote: These families are not in the Delaware series, but the Maryland, volume 7 for Hastings and volume 8 for Bennett. I don't have those books. I did look through the DE ones, but though there are a few Bennett's, none of the names you listed.

Elizabeth
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[input] [input] [input] [input] Dear Elizabeth -
My ancestry was in Old Somerset in or around the town of Delmar when my great-grandfather Waitman/Wateman HASTINGS' oldest son Eli was born there about 1845.

Waitman's father was James Hastings b. + or -1775 and his mother Alafare/Allifair (various other spellings) daughter of John BENNETT and _____. [Mrs Bennett may also have been Allafare/Allifair/......, as it was the name given the oldest daughter who died young.]

Recently it has been reported that an old Bible shows James Hastings' mother as Allifair WILLS. James' 1833 will names his father as Obediah - birth ca 1750 or before (1772 land patent).

I am a little skeptical that James's mother and wife had the same very uncommon given name. If it were 'Mary' or 'Margaret' or 'Elizabeth', I wouldn't quibble.

The name Allifair - again, variously spelled - appears several times in other families in the area and in that era. Was it a valid, pretty-sounding name or did the compiler of that Bible record (who probably knew or heard of James' wife Alafare/Allifair/ ...) make a mistake ?????

John Lyon purports that the surname may have been read WILLS for WELLS from old script.

Do the COLONIAL FAMILIES of DELAWARE show this WILLS/WELLS gal connected with this HASTINGS-BENNETT family?

Thank you for consideration and the time it takes.

Margaret Hastings Hendrix - North Tustin, CA

PS: - Re Vols. 8 and 9 - Do new additions contain newly-found material and/or corrections to previous volumes?
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PPS:-Also haven't been able to find parents for Solomon COLLINS or
wife Nancy WALSTON, or John BENNETT and his unknown wife.

Margaret Hastings Hendrix -
HASTINGS / BENNETT, COLLINS / WALSTON in Sussex Co., DE, surrounding MD 1700s, > Mercer Co.,west central Ohio 1846.

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