Sarah (Fiske) Hastings (1685 - 1731)

Born 4 Jul 1685 in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of John Hastings — married 8 Jan 1707 in Watertown, Middlesex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 15 May 1731 at age 45 in Lunenburg, Lunenburg, Worcester, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

Sarah (Fiske) Hastings was born 04 Jul 1685, in Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Nathaniel Fiske. Sarah married John Hastings, as his second wife, in Watertown, Massachusetts, on January 8, 1706-7.^[1]

In 1720, at Concord, John was one of the 80 men allotted land in Turkey Hills, which was to become Lunenburg.^[2] Then he, Sarah, and their children removed from Watertown to Lunenburg, Worcester County, sometime between 1722 and 1731.

John and Sarah Hastings had, in Watertown:^[1]

• Sarah, b. 8 Nov 1707, p. 36
• Susanna, b. 4 Apr 1710, p. 39
• John, b. 4 Feb 1711-12, p. 44
• Nathaniel, b. 4 June 1714, p. 53
• Hannah, b. 24 Jan 1716-17, p. 58, m. David Farnsworth in Lunenburg 15 Aug 1735
• Eunice, b. 30 Sep 1722, p. 71

and in Lunenburg:^[3]

• Mary, b. 6 July 1731, m. Nicholas Dike on 20 July 1748
• Lois, b. ??, m. Edward Hartwell Esq. 5 April 1764

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Watertown Records Comprising the Third Book of Town Proceedings and the Second Book of Births Deaths and Marriages to the end of 1737 also Plan and Register of Burials in Arlington Street Burying Ground (Prepared for Publication by the Historical Society)(Watertown Mass Press of Fred G Barker 1900)(Free e-book)(Records are also available at ma-vitalrcords.org) p. 23
2. ↑ Worcester, The Early Records of the Town of Lunenburg . . ., p. 15
3. ↑ Worcester, The Early Records of the Town of Lunenburg . . ., p. 303, 248

Acknowledgments

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