Need subjects wife's name, and whether his son James had brothers Jesse, Joshua, Jacob, or were they cousins. James d. abt 1833, Obediah in 1820 census Little Creek Hd. Sussex Co., Delaware, but not in 1830.

James m.Alafare BENNETT, son Wateman (my ancestor m. Mary Elinor COLLINS in DE, oldest ch Eli Thomas born there before Wateman and M.E. moved to Mercer Co., OH.

Did other children of James Hastings move westward? Still a lot of Hastingses in Sussex Co., DE. Are any of them interested in genealogical connections?