Abel Janney HATFIELD

                   BIRTH: Sept 13, 2000, a Michael Van Baaren posted the following: "Jonas Hatfield, b c1762 in Wales, came to America a t 9yrs of age.  Tradtition says he migrated to Kentucky and married a widow(?), Rachel (Llewellyn) Janney and had 9 children...Quaker records show them being recieved.... in 1788.  Rachel had been disowned in 1779for committing fornication and having a child born out of wedlock.  This child was Abel Janney (the father was also Abel Janney) and little Abel was born 30 Sept 1779 in Loudoun Co., Virginia. HIs father may have been a married man? She named her son after him. Jonas Hatfield was only about 16 years old when Abel was born, married Rachel when he was in his early 20's and Abel was about seven years old.  He raised Abel Janney as his own son.  The whole family was later taken back into the Quaker church in 1806