In a message dated 12/8/2002 7:05:15 AM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I am interested in learning whether there is any established pattern of > migration for families from Sussex County, DE to western states. My MOORE > and POWDERS ancestors essentially disappeared from Delaware after the 1830 > Census leaving me to believe that they may have left the area for more > fertile faming land in the developing mid-West. My ggg-grandfather, Jesse > MOORE, and his family had resided in the Broadcreek Hundred area of Sussex, > while the POWDERS were found further East in the Blackwater area. While > some of them might have died between 1830 and 1840, the complete absence of > any identifiable members of either family have led me to postulate that > they went West in search of better farm land. I would welcome any advice > on how I might most efficiently explore this theory.Jack Gracey HI Jack Gracey - Margaret Hendrix here -- My Waitman HASTINGS & Solomon COLLINS anc. left DE/MD 1847 and settled in Mercer Co., on the central western edge of OHIO. Record indicates they stayed 6 months in Cincinnati area. DID THEY HAVE RELATIVES WHO HAD ALREADY GONE AHEAD AND SETTLED THERE? Waitman's mother was Alafare BENNETT - did some of the Bennett's precede them? I have found some Bennett's in Indiana across the line from Mercer Co., OH, but no contacts so far. Nancy Hayden ([email protected]) is the only related Collins researcher I have found. Max McDaniel ('snowbirding' in March 2002) who seemingly dropped off the map before he went 'back north' ,wherever that may be, is a COLLINS desc. of Fanny B. b. 1830s who married Thos. McDANIEL in Mercer Co., OH. [Where are you, Max McDaniel ?????? (<[email protected]> on rented computer at that time.-now not a known member at aol.)] As to HASTINGS contacts, dear departed Elaine Hastings Mason who compiled so many Sussex Co. land records is/was the only person I've found who is in my direct Hastings line. Is there anyone carrying on her work????? 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.)