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Subject: [LDR] Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V03 #62
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 15:29:20 EST


In a message dated 03/17/2003 12:05:06 AM Pacific Standard Time,
LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D- v.03-62 Message #4 - dadadata writes:

> Quakers weren't welcome in Virginia and quickly moved to Md and Penna.

I've wondered if at least some of the Hastings family(-ies) of Sussex Co.,
DE, might have either been Quakers coming after Wm. Penn, or if they had gone
south from New England where there are so many Hastings families in the
1600s.

Some of my addressees above have Hastings Quakers in PA (earliest dates?; in
or near the 'three lower counties'?).

And, of course, Hastings, England being in Sussex might have been the
starting point to DE/MD, but perhaps via many routes on the way over a
century or two.

Mine were Methodists when Waitman/Wateman b. 1819, s/o James s/o Obadiah, was
growing up in Sussex Co., DE.

Were they likely to have switched denominations? 'Once a Quaker, always a
Quaker'?

How many Quaker Hastings families show up among these I have emailed?

Thanks for input!

Margaret Hastings Hendrix
Orange Co., CA


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