Hastings Strickland (1768 - 1829)

Born 18 Aug 1768 in Oakham, Worcester, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Husband of Sally (Perley) Strickland — married 16 Jun 1793 in Gray, Cumberland, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 9 Mar 1829 at age 60 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

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Biography

Birth

Hastings Strickland was born at Oakham, Massachusetts, on 18 Aug 1768, the son of Rev. John Strickland and Patty (Stone) Strickland.^[1] (The 1874 history of Livermore, Maine, says that he was born on 17 Aug 1768 at Nottingham, New Hampshire.^[2])

Marriage

Hastings Strickland married Sally Perley at Gray, Maine (then in Massachusetts) on 16 Jun 1793.^[3]

Residence

The 1874 history of Livermore, Maine, says that Hastings Strickland moved to Livermore in 1795, where he "had a large farm, with an extensive orchard and a cider mill, on the main road."^[2] Hastings and Sally Strickland recorded their first child at Livermore on 10 Sep 1794.^[4] There are many cases in the Livermore records of recorded births of children who were born before their parents moved to the town; whether this occurred in the Stricklands' case is not known.

Death

Hastings Strickland died at Livermore, Maine, on 9 Mar 1829.^[2] He is buried with his wife and their son Hastings, who died in childhood, at the Brettuns Yard Cemetery in Livermore, where his gravestone gives his age at his death as 61.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Oakham, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Worcester, 1905), 48
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Israel Washburn, Notes, Historical, Descriptive, and Personal of Livermore, in Androscoggin (Formerly in Oxford) County, Maine (Portland, Me., 1874), page 37
3. ↑ Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, database, FamilySearch, Hastings Strickland and Sarah Pearley, 16 Jun 1793; citing Gray, Cumberland, Maine, reference ; FHL microfilm 10,932
4. ↑ Birth records of children of Hastings Strickland, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine; Vital and town records, 1797-1910; "Livermore Vital Records, 1786-1840," page 69; FHL Microfilm 11332, Image 65 of 718
5. ↑ Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1990, database with images, FamilySearch, Stevens - Stromwell > image 3383 of 3493; Maine State Library, Augusta.