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'