This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mills Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3Y.2ADI/321.337.1 Message Board Post: My records show that a son Luke was mentioned in the will of Edward Mills.It does not give any further info about him. I would be interested in comparing some of the info about the Mills family with yoou. e-mail me at [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morris, Disharoon, Pollitt, Covington, Hayman, Pusey, Vickars, Anderson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3Y.2ADI/1466.1 Message Board Post: The Lesslie Dryden collection also contains many typewritten letters that he wrote in response to correspondence like the letters I wrote him. Not only are most of my letter to him included but his replies to me. Hence, he summaries his notes and they become ledgable. I learned to make out his handwriting through the years. His work is an invaluable contribution to my research. Best of luck. Paul Morris

TO: [email protected] RE: Message #3 - 16 Oct 2002 SUBJECT: WARREN, DICKERSON et al - PARKER - You wrote re Rhoda BENNETT WARREN - Eli Warren, died before 14 Nov. 1795, son of Wrixam & Rhoda (Bennett) Warren of > Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex Co., DE. A Eli Warren and wife Amy had a > daughter Maria Warren (born 7 May 1789) baptized on 30 Jan 1790 at St. > George's Church, Dagsboro Hundred. Eli was listed on the Reconstructed 1790 > Census of Sussex Co., De in Broadkill (Broadkiln) Hd. Eli Warren was dead > before 14 Nov. 1795 when his father, Wrixam Warren, wrote his will, which > mentions Eli's son William and Eli's widow (not named). Also mentioned in > Wrixam Warren's will was a grandson Purnal Warren. > > On 14 February 1807, Charles Dickerson petitioned the Sussex County Orphans > Court that Purnel Warren, late of Broadkiln Hd, dec'd, was seized of land > in Cedar Creek Hd, and that he had died intestate and without issue, he > left two sisters; Sally, the wife of your petitioner (Charles Dickerson) > and Polley Warren, petition to divide lands. Ishmael Steel, Zachariah > Reynolds, William Robbins, Bethuel Watson & Curtis Shockley were appointed > to divide said lands. (Sussex Orphans Court Records, Lib. IJ fol. 517) > > Does anyone know if Purnel / Purnal Warren was the son of Eli Warren or one > of his brothers? > > Parker - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carolines/ > > Have you or has anyone else done any research on Rhoda Warren's BENNETT > family? The name PURNAL/PURNELL keeps coming up among Bennetts. I have > Alafare Bennett (Mrs. James) HASTINGSk prob. b. ca or after 1775, d/o of > John BENNETT for whom I would like to find a wife and create a family > group. [ Also for James's father Obadiah HASTINGS] Margaret Hastings Hendrix - Mostly searching DE/MD for Obadiah HASTINGS (d.1820-30) and Alafare BENNETT's father John - both ca 1750 - 'Block Walls'

Hello, I have posted some of this before but it has been quite some time so I am posting again in search of some new information. Looking for children born to Dora Elizabeth HITCHENS and Joseph W. COOPER married 4Sep1893, Wicomico Co, MD. I know of at least one childe and there is possibly another. Dora remarried 23Feb 1899 to George Thomas BRITTINGHAM First child of Dora and Joseph: Willey M. COOPER (possibly Wilhelamina ... M could have been May/Mae). In 1900 census Dora had stated she had given birth to 3 children and that 3 were still living children. However she only lists Willey and a new child with the new husband ... New child is Helen L. BRITTINGHAM. Cant account for 3rd child. Would almost have to have been a child with Joseph W COOPER. This second child wouldnt have been older than 5 years old in 1900 or younger than 2 years, is my guess since Dora was remarried by 1899 and if this child is still living in 1900, and not living with Dora and George BRITTINGHAM, then where would it be. Was Joseph still living? Was child with him if he was still living? Was child with Grandparents on day of census, or living permantly with Grandparents? Also looking to see if Dora and Joseph were divorced, or was she widowed and when. Would there be a record of the parents and siblings of Joseph on anything such as marriage license, death certificate regardless of date of death (leaving her a widow or even if death ocurred in later years.) They seemed to have lived in and around Delmar sometimes in Maryland and sometimes in Delaware. Sometimes Sussex CountyDE and sometimes in Wicomico County, MD. Their families (BRITTINGHAM, COOPERS, HITCHENS, and Dora's maternal side the SHUMANS) all seem to be from in and around those areas. In the 1900's Dora and George lived in Wilmington Delaware (New Castle County). Dora died there in 21Jan1924 but was transported by train to Delmar for burial. Im not sure if it was Delaware or Maryland and I do not know where the burial took place, burial was 24Jan1924. By here death, Dora and George had 3 more children. Mary Virginia, John Washington and James L BRITTINGHAM (this last child was born in 1915) Hoping to find information on Dora's other child, as well as information in Joseph's family. Thanks. Vickie [email protected]

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: derry Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3Y.2ADI/1462.2 Message Board Post: The number for the town hall in georgetown,sussex county is 302-856-7391.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: perry,derry Classification: Lookup Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3Y.2ADI/1462.1 Message Board Post: This family is also in the 1930 census living at st. johns road.The only person missing is their daughter,laurie or louise.Hard to make out the 1920 census.William is here at the age of 10.What's strange is I didnt find Basil Derry in the 1930 census,so I used the soundex and gave me Basil Perry.I looked at both the 1920 census and 1930 census and they both look like perry.There wasnt a basil derry in the ssdi but there is one basil perry born 22 july 1887 and died in georgetown,sussex county sept 1966.The age of 32 in the 1920 census and 42 in the 1930 census matches his birth year of 1887 because he didnt turn 33 until july and the census was before this.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COLLINS, HAZZARD, HOPKINS, CARR and more Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3Y.2ADI/1466 Message Board Post: Trying to find the correct COLLINS line for my JOHN COLLINS who were on the E. Shore very early on. There are a jillions JOHN COLLINS in the area and I have done spread sheet on land records for the COLLINS' Hasn't helped me so far as wives were hardly ever mentioned in land records. JOHN'S wife was already deceased when he d. in Bourbon Co KY 1815. He went from DE/MD to Washington Co PA to Bourbon Co KY. His daughter, RHODA m. DAVID HOPKINS. My spreadsheet goes back to 1679. Does anyone know if the DRYDEN papers have been transcribed into readable form. He wrote COLLINS family up, but it is impossible to read. Too small. He seems to think there were 3 seprate COLLINS families in the area. I feel sure that he could solve my brickwall if only the papers he wrote could be deciphered. Verna

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Charles and William Dockerty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3Y.2ADI/1465 Message Board Post: Does anyone have info on Charles or William Dockerty that were in Sussex Co abt 1733/34? They were brothers. Charles died abt 1734 . Found some info in land records but that is all.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3Y.2ADI/236.247.291.402.456.756.989 Message Board Post: I read with interest your Collins/Tatman connection. I have the original land deed of Bowen's HighHills deeded to John Bowen and subsequently sold to a Mitchell Tatman of Delaware in 1770. Would you have any record of a land purchase in Worcester County, MD near Nanicoke River/Broad Creek? I'm trying to find out why I have this deed. Thanks for any help you may be able to give me. Jan in MO

Ever since beginning my search for Obadiah Hastings - d. or disappears 1820-30, I find HEARNs popping up as neighbors and/or collaterals DelMar-Laurel area. Did some of them precede or follow my Hastings anc. to western OH or eastern INdiana mid-1800s? Margaret Hastings Hendrix - Mostly searching DE/MD ca.1750 Obadiah (d.1820-30) HASTINGS et al. - 'Block Wall'

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis/Manlove Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3Y.2ADI/1179.2 Message Board Post: Read with interest your query re Jabez. I have him in my data base. What exactly are you interested in?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: KIMMEY, LITTLETON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3Y.2ADI/1464 Message Board Post: A small article on my g-grandfather Aaron Kimmey (1867-1927) is in the latest edition of the Lighthouse Digest. He was a lighthouse keeper at Taylor's Bridge, Delaware in the early 1900's. While he was a keeper in New Castle County, Aaron was born and raised in Sussex County, mostly in Lewes and Rehoboth Hundred. To read the article go to: http://www.lhdigest.com/Digest/StoryPage.cfm?StoryKey=1432

I just sent something into the ether without a subj. or message - Sorry -Return Key is vicious sometimes. I 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'

I am searching for the ancestry of Stephen Reavill (Revill, Revell, Reavell, Reaville) who died about Oct 1783 in Sussex Co., DE. His children were William, Sarah, and David and his spouse was Miss Crow. David A. Reavill 468 Delbert Drive Idaho Falls, Idaho 83401-4246 Phone: (208) 523-6989 E-mail: [email protected]

Does anyone know if there was a Page family in Sussex Co? My brick wall is gg-grandfather, Edward P. Dazey. My grandfather's brother was Raymond Page Daisey, and he named his son that, as well. I don't know of anyone within my memory (or research) who was a Page. Perhaps Page was Edward's mother's maiden name. Does this ring any bells with anyone? Janet T. Smith Gloucester City, NJ [email protected] Torpey/Tarpy, Flannery* Riley, Wallace* Dazey/Daisey, McComrick, Handcock/Hancock (in DE)* Tonkin, Miller, Rambo* Hughes, Sithens, Nieukirk, TenEyck* Wilson, Andrews, Clare, Kurtz*

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3Y.2ADI/2.42.161.2.1 Message Board Post: I have this family in my Lynch notes as well. Could Elijah have been married twice? I have him listed with Elizabeth Carey but also with a Hester? Kids I have listed for Elizabeth are: James, Caleb (married Hettie C.), Nancy, Margaret, Sarah, Lemuel (married a Lettie), Edward, Elizabeth, and Gilbert (married Mary E.). The kids under Hester are Samuel, Stephen, and Josephine.

----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 2:02 AM Subject: [DESUSSEX] Sussex Co. Cemeteries > Hi Parker, > I hope you will keep us posted on your cemetery safari. Are you going to > record the graves you find?? Are you going to private family cemeteries?? > Thanks. > xxBetty Gordy > > ______________________________ Hi Betty, I didn't get to go last weekend but plan to try again either this weekend or next. I will add those cemeteries that I find to my web-site for all to use. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carolines/ Does anyone know when Vol.2 of Tombstones of Sussex County, Delaware will be published? I have Vol. 1 but only 4 very small family cemeteries are listed for all of Dagsboro Hundred. Parker

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3Y.2ADI/625.683.815.820.972.973.975 Message Board Post: In some Coulter information of Sussex County DE there is a Sarah Coulter Campbell who married second Robert West; children Wrixam, Robert, Joseph, John, Levin, Peter m Comfort with daughter Ruth and Lewis (Lewes?) see http://www.coulterfamily.com/eleanor_coulter.htm

Does anyone have information on the Curtis Shockley mentioned below? His approximate birth year, parent(s) name, etc? In a message dated 10/16/02 7:45:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > On 14 February 1807, Charles Dickerson petitioned the Sussex County Orphans > Court that Purnel Warren, late of Broadkiln Hd, dec'd, was seized of land > in Cedar Creek Hd, and that he had died intestate and without issue, he > left two sisters; Sally, the wife of your petitioner (Charles Dickerson) > and Polley Warren, petition to divide lands. Ishmael Steel, Zachariah > Reynolds, William Robbins, Bethuel Watson & Curtis Shockley were appointed > to divide said lands. (Sussex Orphans Court Records, Lib. IJ fol. 517) > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Warren, Dickerson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3Y.2ADI/1463 Message Board Post: Need help with Eli Warren, died before 14 Nov. 1795, son of Wrixam & Rhoda (Bennett) Warren of Cedar Creek Hundred, Sussex Co., DE. A Eli Warren and wife Amy had a daughter Maria Warren (born 7 May 1789) baptized on 30 Jan 1790 at St. George's Church, Dagsboro Hundred. Eli was listed on the Reconstructed 1790 Census of Sussex Co., De in Broadkill (Broadkiln) Hd. Eli Warren was dead before 14 Nov. 1795 when his father, Wrixam Warren, wrote his will, which mentions Eli's son William and Eli's widow (not named). Also mentioned in Wrixam Warren's will was a grandson Purnal Warren. On 14 February 1807, Charles Dickerson petitioned the Sussex County Orphans Court that Purnel Warren, late of Broadkiln Hd, dec'd, was seized of land in Cedar Creek Hd, and that he had died intestate and without issue, he left two sisters; Sally, the wife of your petitioner (Charles Dickerson) and Polley Warren, petition to divide lands. Ishmael Steel, Zachariah Reynolds, William Robbins, Bethuel Watson & Curtis Shockley were appointed to divide said lands. (Sussex Orphans Court Records, Lib. IJ fol. 517) Does anyone know if Purnel / Purnal Warren was the son of Eli Warren or one of his brothers? I would appreciate any help with this family. Parker http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~carolines/