This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HASTINGS, WILEY,COLLINS, WALSTON, GIFFEN, BENTLEY, THOMPSON, CLARK, NICHOL, WOODBURN, et al. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3Y.2ADI/1415.1 Message Board Post: Some time ago, someone mentioned HASTINGS families as Quakers in PA. Am I right in assuming that would be Wm. Penn's time? Also, when I got my 1790 and later Hastings Sussex Co., DE, census info, I think I remember noting that most did not have slaves (or were they 'free men)'? [My early genealog. searches, I'm sorry to say, were not well documented. If current Hastings searchers could fill me in on this, I'd appreciate it.]