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- H. Thomas HastingsEst 1605 - Bet 1682 & 1685
- W. Susan _____Est 1600 - 1650/51
m. Bef 1634
Facts and Events
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Thomas Hastings ( – c. September 15, 1685) was a prominent English immigrant to New England, one of the approximately 20,000 immigrants who came as part of the Great Migration. A deacon of the church, among his many public offices he served on the Committee of Colony Assessments in 1640 and as Deputy for Watertown to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1673. He held property in nearby Dedham between 1636 and 1639, although there is no evidence that he ever lived there.
References
- ↑ Thomas Hastings (colonist), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- Bond, Henry. Early Settlers of Watertown, MA
1860.
Thomas Hastings age 29, & wife Susanna age 25 embarked Ipswich, Eng. April 10, 1634 in ship "Elizabeth"; Susanna died Feb. 2, 1650.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Thomas Hastings sketch, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).
ORIGIN: Unknown. MIGRATION: 1634 on the Elizabeth (on 30 April 1634, "Thomas Hastings," aged 29, and "Susan his wife," aged 34, were enrolled at Ipswich as passengers for New England on the Elizabeth [Hotten 280]). FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown. OCCUPATION: Yeoman [MLR 2:13, 366, 368, 3:287].
BIRTH: About 1605 (aged 29 on 30 April 1634 [Hotten 280]). DEATH: Between 12 March 1682[/3?] (date of will) and 7 September 1685 (probate of will).
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:374.
"THOMAS, Watertown, came in the Elizabeth 1634, aged 29, with w. Susan, 34, from Ipswich, and may be thot. a Suffk. man, freem. 6 May 1635; his w. d. 20 Jan. 1651, without ch. and he m. Apr. foll. Margaret Cheney, had Thomas, b. 1 July 1652; John, 1 Mar. 1654, William, 8 Aug. 1655, drown. at 14 yrs.; Joseph, 12 Sept. 1657; Benjamin, 9 Aug. 1659; Nathaniel, 25 Sept. 1661; Hepzibah, 31 Jan. 1664; and Samuel, 12 Mar. 1666, bef. ment. was deac. rep. 1673; and date of his d. is unkn.; but the will, pro. 7 Sept. 1685 was made 12 Mar. 1683."
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