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