I am currently in the process of researching and assembling all of the various Staats families from the New Castle, DE area from their arrival there in the early 1700's through the early 1800's. In order to ensure the results are as accurate as possible, I am including only source documents in my findings(i.e. probate, Orphan's court, deeds, etc). If anyone is descended from these families and would like to know if I have information that might be of help to your research, please let me know. Likewise, if anyone has undertaken any original research on any of these families, I would love to hear from you.

My personal DE Staats connection is Jacob Staats m. Sarah ?.
Jacob died about Mar 1783 (Not 1785 as is often listed for this Jacob. The 18 Jan 1785 date is the date the account of the administrators was accepted. However, the administrator's bond was dated 1 Apr 1783 - making the date of death most likely sometime in late March of that year.

According to three deeds I've found thus far, Jacob had eight children. From those deeds, I have been able to identify five of those children as follows:
Jacob, Elijah, Lydia (married Robert Standly), David, unk. daughter (married an Irons).

I have not been able to determine who the other three children are yet, but they were alive at the time of the three deeds mentioned above - two dated 27 Feb 1792 (David Staats to Jacob Staats, and Robert Standly and wife Lydia to Jacob Staats), and the other dated 7 Oct 1800 (Elijah Staats to John Callahan. Hopefully, further research will determine the others.


Chris Staats
Cleveland, OH