Hi Selma - Thanks for the info- You wrote -
: Re: Bennetts in Jay Co., IN
Date: 2/18/2003 8:01:49 PM Pacific Standard Time
From: bearfoot(a)tds.net (Dem Bones)
To: MHastingsHendrix(a)cs.com
From somewhere in NJ prior to 1804 then to somewhere in Pa for a
couple yrs
then by 1816 into Wayne Co., Ohio. Part of them, were there until 1839
and
then to Jay Co. Indiana. The other part of the family was in Wayne co and
then in Lorain co Ohio and into Wabash Co. Ind. about the same time.
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Can you give names of any Bennetts who went to Jay Co., IN in 1839?
Thanks!
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KAREN BENNETT - DO YOUR BENNETTS CONNECT WITH ANY OF THE ABOVE?
Margaret Hastings Hendrix
DE & MD ca.1750 - Obadiah HASTINGS (d.1820-30); also John BENNETT same area &
era (need wives for both). John Bennett's dau Alafare m. Obadiah Hastings'
son James abt 1800, prob. Sussex Co., DE or Old Somerset, MD.
James' son, Wateman/Waitman HASTINGS m. Mary E. COLLINS 1824. She was dau of
Solomon b 1800 and Nancy WALSTON COLLINS b. 1798 - m. Worc. Co., MD, 1824.
The Wateman HASTINGS and Solomon COLLINS families migrated together to Mercer
Co., west central OH on IN state line in 1846.