Hi Dan, This could be a big clue. Thank you for taking the time to send this information. And thank you to the other two people who also provided leads in this query. Sincerely, Beth Zaring > >I have a copy of a little book by Lois Barton titled /A Quaker Promise >Kept, >Philadelphia Friends' Work with the Allegany Senecas, 1795-1960/, which >tells the story of a Quaker school at Tunessassa on the Allegany River in >southern New York. One person mentioned is William C. Hoag, a Seneca who >had been a student in 1872. > >After 1850, the school added dormitories for students who came from a >distance. > >-- >Dan Treadway >P O Box 72 Gilbert IA 50105 >treadway@netins.net >http://showcase.netins.net/web/treadway/ > >-----Original Message----- >From: Elizabeth Zaring [mailto:bethzaring@hotmail.com] >Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 7:03 AM >To: QUAKER-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Q-R] Seneca Indian Hoag > > >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 > > > > >==== QUAKER-ROOTS Mailing List ==== > HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS LIST: Send an email to: > QUAKER-ROOTS-L-REQUEST@RootsWeb.com > The ONLY word in your message should be UNSUBSCRIBE. >