In a message dated 10/31/2002 2:36:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > > book on the Bennett family of Sussex Co., DE which Bob Smith has > graciously shared. I checked the index but no Alafare (or variation thereof) > Bennett is listed nor any Hastings. Sorry. > > mmhh here - I'm sorry too. Maybe across state line in MD? Does BENNETT > book deal only with DE Bennetts? I''m beginning to think Alafare may have gone by nickname Allie or perhaps Elizabeth. I suppose there are more than a few Johns and Elizabeths in the era around 1800 in that area. ----\------------------------------------------- A note of trivia re- > Witness ........ & Corn. Paynter .............. Oct. 25, 1832, rec'd of Mr. > Allison Dickerson $40 for the use of Sarah Dickerson." - > > Corn. Paynter is also the signature of witness on Will of James HASTINGS in > 1833, Sussex Co., DE. Also a Hastings and a Dickerson later married. Margaret Hastings Hendrix Mostly climbing 'craggy block walls' in DE & MD ca.1750 Obadiah HASTINGS (d.1820-30); John BENNETT same area & era (need wives for both); also John CAMPBELL m. Cynthia FUQUA ca. 1822, ch b.VA, IL, MO, grfa of Mary Minnette C. TOMLINSON, but not a bro. of Alex. of Disc. of Chr. Ch.