In a message dated 12/8/2002 10:27:54 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > about the migration from Sussex > County, Delaware to Mercer County, Ohio, please let me know too. > > I grew up in Mercer County, Ohio and my gg greandparents (DONOVAN)were both > from Broadkill Hundred area of Sussex County, DE. > I have not been able to find the reason, but there seems to have been a > mass > migration from DE to Mercer County in the > mid 1830's. > ---------------------------------------------- > How many other names, and dates, can you (or anyone reading this) supply in that mass migration of the 1830s? Do Mercer Co. land records give any indication of what the attraction was for people migrating from the east coast (my Hastings and Collins--your Donovans --what was her maiden name?), and many as far away as Germany? Margaret Hastings Hendrix 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 - m1. Cynthia FUQUA ca. 1822, m.2. Emily FORD - 12 ch b.W)VA, IL, MO, grfa of Mary Minnette Campbell TOMLINSON. (John was not a bro. of Alex. of Disc. of Chr. Ch. - that seems to be a figment of orphaned Minnette's imagination.)