Born in Middleton, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Benjamin Dike
— married
2 Feb 1771 in Tewksbury,Middlesex,Massachusetts
Wife of
William Hastings
— married
31 Aug 1785 in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States
Descendants 
Mother of
Betty Dike, Samuel Stearns Dike, Benjamin (Dike) Dyke, William Hastings, Ruth (Hastings) Green, Benjamin Hastings and Dolly (Hastings) Hartshorn
Died
at age 78
in Amherst, Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 20 Jun 2011
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Biography
1749 Mar 9: Birthdate Dorothy Stearns from FamilySearch.org Family Tree: Dorothy Stearns K644-XW1 daughter of Samuel & Dorothy (Perkins) Stearns. Sources from handwritten books of Middleton. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001" Middleton, Essex, Massachusetts. 1) Family Register of Samuel Stearns & Dorothy his wife's children. 2) Same in another volume; perhaps older.
1771 Feb 2: Dike, Benjamin, 3d, and Dolley Starns of Amherst, marriage intention 2 Feb 1771. [Vital Records of Tewksbury, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849, by Town of Tewksbury, Incorporated 1734 (Salem, Mass: Published by The Essex Institute, 1912) marriages, p. 118]
1785 Aug 31: Marriage of William Hastings and Mrs. Dorothy Dike by Moses Nichols JP [Amherst Town Records, Volume I, p. 29]
DIED - In this town, 13th inst. Mrs. Dolly Hastings wife of Mr. Wm. Hastings, aged 78. Printers in Vt and New York are requested to insert this. [The Farmers' Cabinet, Amherst, New Hampshire; 17 Nov 1827, p. 3]
Sources
- Vital Records of Middleton, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, Massachusetts, Topsfield Historical Society, 1904), Births p. 50.
- Daniel F. Secomb, History of the Town of Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire (Concord, NH: Evans, Sleeper & Woodbury, 1883; facsimile, Somersworth, NH: NH Publishing Company, 1972). Pages 564, 615, 622
- Amherst Town Clerk, Amherst Town Records, Volume I typescript, 1760-1778 (Amherst Town Hall Vault, original at NH Historical Society), marriage William Hastings & Dorothy Dike.
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61356604/dorothy-hastings
- WikiTree profile Stearns-230 created through the import of Shurtliff Family.ged on Jun 20, 2011 by Mark Shurtliff. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Mark and others.
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