In a message dated 9/26/2002 10:24:43 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: (cut/pasted) - > My Hastings are the Quaker lot from Swerford, England > to Chester County, PA, 1679 or thereabouts. > > Kate Hastings > ------------------------------------------ I have just about come to the conclusion that the HASTINGS families in Delaware (almost exclusively with Old Testament 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 to which he had been given a royal charter was held by the Delaware (Leni Lenape) Indians. Although the document has not survived, it is believed that in 1682 Penn signed a treaty with the natives who occupied the land paying them 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." Anyone pursuing Hastings in Delaware area want to discuss this or enlighten me pro or con? Kate - <[email protected]> Do have documentation on the Swerford Hastings? More than one Hastings family immigrate? How far is Swerford from Hastings in Sussex, England? Margaret Hastings Hendrix - Mostly searching DE/MD ca.1750 Obadiah (d.1820-30) HASTINGS et al. - 'Block Wall' - there are 'jillions' of Hastings families in DE in that era.