Hi - To Karen Bennett - Mercer Co., OH - you wrote - <<We do believe that the Bennetts may have come from Delaware or New Jersey, but we are not sure. No one has been able to connect them positively to that state. The Bennetts and Grants settled in Mercer County fairly early, before 1840>>. Can you give me BENNETT first names, dates, marriages of that era who went to Mercer Co., OH? -------------------------------------------------- << corresponds with any of your names is Cummins. Jonathan Grant married Sarah Lee Cummins. That information was given to me by someone else and I have no documentation for it.>> The CUMMINS name is a collateral - Mary E. (Mrs. Waitman Hastings) COLLINS's sister Betsy b. 1832 in DE m. 1. a Clark, and m. 2. a Cummins - Mercer Co., OH. Margaret Hastings Hendrix DE & MD ca.1750 - Obadiah HASTINGS (d.1820-30) and John BENNETT, same area & era . Obadiah Hastings' son James m. John Bennett's dau Alafare/Allifair. also DE & MD ca. 1750 - who were the parents of Nancy WALSTON who m. Solomon COLLINS in 1824 Worc. Co., MD; Dau Mary E. m. Wateman/Waitman HASTINGS, son of James. All of them to Mercer Co., OH. 1846. and my husband's and kids' family - (W)VA, IL, MO - John CAMPBELL - m1. Cynthia FUQUA ca. 1822 - 5 ch; m2. Emily FORD - 7 ch. Ch b.(W)VA, IL, & MO. Oldest of the 12, Edward CARRINGTON CAMPBELL, was fa of Mary Minnette Campbell TOMLINSON of Hannibal, MO. ********* Is CARRINGTON A FAMILY NAME IN THEIR ANCESTRY? ********** (John was NOT a bro. of Alexander Campbell, founder of Disciples. of Chr. Ch. - that seems to be a figment of orphaned Minnette's imagination. (I spent years researching Disciples of Christ Church Campbells, to no avail.)