|
|
Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Deacon Walter Hastings |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
Abt 1631 |
England |
| Marriage |
12 Nov 1661 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesWalter Hastings and Sarah Meane were step-siblings.
to Sarah Meane |
| Marriage |
23 Jul 1674 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Bright |
| Marriage |
7 Jan 1702/03 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Cook |
| Residence[1] |
|
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death[1][3] |
5 Aug 1705 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Alt Death[3] |
6 Aug 1705 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Burial[3][4][5] |
|
Old Burying Ground Harvard Square, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Walter Hastings, in Paige, Lucius Robinson. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877: With a Genealogical Register. (Boston, Massachusetts: H. O. Houghton, 1877)
575.
"2. Walter (Hastings), s. of John (1), … Walter the f. d. 5 Aug. 1705, a. 74; his w. Elizabeth survived. He res. on the estate inherited by his first wife, at the corner of North Avenue and Holmes Place, and obtained large tracts of land elsewhere by purchase. He was by trade a tanner, but was much employed in the public service. He was a Selectman, with the exception of only two years, from 1673 until his death. He was also Deacon of the Church as early as 1681."
Walter Hastings [#2], s/o John Hastings [#1], … m. (1) 10 Apr 1655 Sarah Meane, m. (2) 23 Jul 1674 Elizabeth Bright, m. (3) 7 Jan 1702-3 Elizabeth (_____) [p. 510: Elizabeth Cook] Clark (widow of Elder [p. 510: Jonas] Clark).
- ↑ Holman, Mary Lovering. Ages from Depositions in Middlesex County, Mass., 1675-1695. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Oct 1931)
85:454.
"Hastings, Walter, 60 in 1691."
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
Vol. 2, p. 591.
"HASTING, Walter, Dea., [died] Aug. 6, 1705 (Aug. 5, 1705, in this 75th y., (grave record, cemetery at Harvard Square))"
- ↑ Deacon Walter Hasting, in Find A Grave.
HERE LYES [BU]RIED
Ye BO[DY] OF D[EAC]ON
WA[LT]ER HASTING[S?]
WH[O DIED] AUGst Ye 5
IN Ye [??] YEAR OF HIS [AGE]
& IN Ye [YEA]R OF OUR L[D?]
1[?]0[?].
[Note: the surface of the gravestone is chipped in many places, obliterating what was originally in those spots. Some spots can be inferred based on typical wording, but others are specific to this person.]
- ↑ Harris, William Thaddeus. Epitaphs from the Old Burying Ground in Cambridge: with Notes. (Cambridge, Mass.: J. Owen, 1845)
35.
"Memento Fugit
mori. Hora.
Here lyes buried
ye body of Deacon
WALTER HASTING
who died Augst. ye 5th.
in ye 75th. year of his age
& in ye year of our Lord
1705."
"Deacon Walter Hastings, born in England, in 1631, was son of John Hastings — of Braintree, freeman 1645, who removed to Cambridge in 1655 or 1656, and was a deacon of the church — and of his wife Anna Meen [unknown first wife; Anna was his second wife and two of his sons married her two daughters]; Walter married, first, Sarah Meen, April 10, 1655, and second, Elizabeth Bright, July 23, 1674; was deacon of the church; and selectman, 1673-1681, 1683, 1685-1702."
|
|
