Beth, If you're still looking for Native American/Quaker Hoag family information the below description of Haverford College's Quaker archives might be of interest to you. http://www.haverford.edu/library/special/collections/quaker-specialtopics.html "The Quaker Collection contains a great deal of material on Friends and the Indians, including the archives of the Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, dating from 1795. The archives of the Lake Mohonk Conference of Friends of the Indians and Other Dependent Peoples (1883-1929) are also available as well as an extensive collection of the records of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs (1758-1929). Papers of Friends who were active in work with Native Americans include those of Henry Simmons (fl. 1796-1800), Joshua Sharpless (1746-1825), Enoch Hoag (1811-1884), Jonathan Richards (1812-1882) and John B. Garrett (1836-1924)." ~Craig At 08:02 AM 10/25/2004 -0400, you wrote: >Dear Folks, > >I am helping a friend research his great grandfather, who family legend >has it, was a Seneca Indian with the surname of Hoag. Bob Henninge's >grandfather was a careful family genealogist who researched his mothers' >and fathers' family lines. But late in his life, he told four close >family members that his father really was not his biological father. The >grandfather told the story that his biological father was a Seneca Indian >who was, and this is not a joke, the milkman. This took place in New >Albion and Little Valley, Cattaraugus County New York and the family name >was Lawrence. The story handed down through the family was when the >Indians were about to be rousted out of their homes, the Quakers would >alert the Indians so they could excape. Some of the Indians did escape, >but some were also taken into the Quaker homes and would be given the >Quakers' surname. In the Lawrence family case, a Seneca Indian by the name >of Hoag was the family's milkman and fathered a child by Mrs. Lawrence, a >son, the grandfather of my friend Bob. > >Has anyone ever heard of the Quakers in New York playing such a role as >this, taking Indians into their homes and giving them their >surnames? Were there Quakers in Cattaraugus County NY? I haven't been >given a time frame but it would be the entire 1800's. > >Thank you for any clues. > >Beth Zaring > > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >Quaker-Roots Archives - Search List Messages From 1996 On >http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl