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GenMassachusetts-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 498

Today's Topics:
#1 [GM-L] Chelmsford Historical Socie []
#2 [GM-L] Chelmsford Library Book Sal []
#3 [GM-L] HASTINGS of MA & Charlestow []
#4 Re: [GM-L] Family Tree CD #354 ["E MOHR"
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#5 [GM-L] WHEELER ["Andrea M. Brown"
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#6 [GM-L] John Brady []

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Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 20:48:27 EDT
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Subject: [GM-L] Chelmsford Historical Society (from the Chelmsford Handbook
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Chelmsford Historical Society
President:James Scarth
55 Boston Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824
(978) 256-8305

Vice-President: Bernard Ready
31 Clover Hill Road
Chelmsford, MA 01824
(978) 256-6058
Month in which elections are held: May
Founding date: 1930
Approximate number of members: 200
Purpose: To stimulate interest in the history of Chelmsford and show its
development by collecting and preserving records of Chelmsford citizens and
their accomplishments, exhibit and make available the collections for
research, education, and enjoyment
Activities: Program meetings, study groups, lectures, tours, research,
maintenance of the Barrette-Byam Homestead Museum and the Watt-Stevens
Educational Center (open to the public June to September every second and
fourth Sunday afternoon from 2-4 p.m., or by appointment), Christmas Open
House (first Friday and Sunday in December), third graders' field trips,
annual antique auto meet in September
Membership requirements: Open to all with an interest in the town's history
and the preservation of articles related to it
Fees and dues: Individual $10, Senior Citizens/Students $6, Family $18, Life
Membership/person $100. Museum admission - adult $2, student $1, free for
members
Frequency and location of meetings: Speakers 4 times a year, monthly board
meetings

http://www.netway.com/~chelmlib/handbook.html

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The Chelmsford Friends of the Library are getting ready to have another
Giant Book Sale!
This year there has been a change of location.

The Book Sale will be held
September 15, 16, & 17, 2000
in the old gym at the rear of the Town Office Building,
50 Billerica Road, Chelmsford.
Click here for
directions.
http://www.mdc.net/~chelmlib/Friendsindex.htm

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Subject: [GM-L] HASTINGS of MA & Charlestown, NH
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Surname: HASTINGS
Source: History of Charlestown, NH - The Old Fort 4, by
Rev. H. H. Saunderson pub. 1876

p.392
John Hastings ancestor of the Hastings families at
Charlestown, NH, was first of Fort Dummer, then an early
settler at Fort 4. In l753 he was elected Town Clerk.

He was a physician and son of Dr. Thomas Hastings of
Hatfield, MA John was b. l689 and m. (1) Lydia_____
who d. l7l6. He had two children by this marriage:
both named Lydia Hastings and both died young.

He m. (2) l720 Hannah White, dau of Deacon John White. She b.
l695. She d. l744. Issue:

1.Sylvanus Hastings b. l72l m. Jemima Willard eldest dau
of Lieut. Moses Willard and wife, Susanna (Hastings)
Willard, b. at Turkey Hills (now Lunenburg) MA, l728.
Moses Willard was the son of Mary (Whitcomb) and
Simon Willard (d.1706) of Lancaster, MA His widowed
mother m. (2) Samuel Farnsworth of Groton, MA
Issue:
1. Susanna Hastings b. l746
2. Oliver Hastings b. l748 d. l757
3. Jemima Hastings b. l750 m. Jedediah Rice.
4. Sylvanus Hastings Jr. b. l752 m. Betsey____
1.Guy Hastings b. l788
2. and 3. Luke and Lewis Hastings (twins) b. l790
4.Joel Hastings b. l792
5.John Hastings b.l754 m. Miriam_____
1.Solemith Hastings b.l776 d.
1776.
2. Fanny Hastings b. l777 m.
Elias Olcott Jr. of Rockinham, Vt.
(10
children)
3. Sheloma Hastings b. l78l
6. Moses Willard Hastings b. l756 m. l780
Jerusha Spencer b.l758 He was 3d sel-
ectman in l795 and 97. He d. l834
7. Oliver Hastings b. l759 d. of smallpox
the same year.
8. Elizabeth Hastings b. l760 d. l76l
9. Oliver Hastings b. l762 m. Olive Reed
b. Townsend MA He was a physician.
He was a Capt. in l798 and a Major
General in 1817 Their issue:
1. Caroline Hastings b. l793 m.
Dr. John Duncan.
2. Oliver Hastings Jr. b. l806
m. l830 Catherine Reed dau of
Roswell Reed and wife, Char-
lotte (Minor) Reed of Saxtons
River VT
1. Olive P. Hastings
b. l83l m. l860
Charles C. Kimball
son of Brooks Kimball
and Pressilla Vinal
(Bisbee) Kimball b.
1829
2. Caroline Duncan Hast-
ings b. l835 m. l862
George Kimball son of
Benjamin and Mary
(Edwards) Kimball. b.
1827.
10. Hannah Hastings tenth child of Capt. Sylvanus
Hastings
and Jemima Hastings was b. l764 d. l8l7
11. Elizabeth Hastings b. l767 d. same day.
12. Phineas Hastings b. l769 d. l777
13. Lavinia Hastings b. l77l m. Capt. Joseph Parker
1. George Parker m. 2d _____Watson
l. Margaret Parker m. John Watts
Jemima Hastings d. l788 and Capt. Sylvanus Hastings m. (2) in l79l
the wid.Mary Putnam wid of Deac. Ebenezer Putnam.

2. John Hastings Jr. son of John Hastings and wife Hannah (White) Hastings
John Jr. b. at Hatfield, MA l722 m. in l762 Mrs. Susanna Johnson dau of
Lieut Moses Willard and the widow of Capt. James Johnson. She is famous
for her Memoirs of Captivity. She b. l729/30. Their issue:
l. Betty Hastings b. l763 d. same year.
2. John Hastings 3rd b. l764 died following year.
3. James Hastings b. l765 d. next day.
4. Waitstill Hastings b. l766 d. l768
5. Theodosia Hastings b. l769 m. Stephen Hassam b. l787
6. Randilla Hastings b. l77l d. unmarried. age 22
7. John Hastings b. l773

3. Oliver Hastings son of John Hastings and wife, Hannah (White) Hastings
b. at Hatfield, MA l724 did not settle at Charlestown, NH

4. Lemuel Hastings b. at Hatfield MA l727 m. Elizabeth_____ Their children:
1.Cynthia Hastings b. l763 m. Dr. Jonathan Arnold at St.
Johnsbury, VT

2. Joel Hastings b. l765 m. _____his children:
1. Eliza 2. Jane 3. Mary 4. Fannie 5. Moses 6. John
7.
George.

3. Elizabeth Hastings b. l767'

4. Lemuel Hastings b. l769

5. Rhoda Hastings b. l772
5. Hannah Hastings dau of John Hastings and wife, Hannah (White) Hastings
Hannah b. l729

6. Lydia Hastings b. l732 m. (1) Col. William Heywood, Esq.

7. Mehitable Hastings b. l735.

p. 634
Original Proprietors of No. 4
Waitstill Hastings, 2l house lots. Place of origin: Hat-
field.

p.636
Land Owners in Charlestown in l754
Silvanus Hastings
Juo. Hastings, Jr.
Lemuel Hasting

p.64l
Names of the Grantees of Charlestown, NH
Silvanus Hastings
John Hastings, Jr.
John Hastings, Sr.
Lemuel Hastings

p.642
Revolutionary Patriots of Charlestown, NH
Oliver Hastings
John Hastings, Jr.

p.649 Physicians of Charlestown, NH
Dr. Oliver Hastings studied under Dr. William Page of
Charlestown and subsequently under Dr. Frink of Rutland
MA and Dr. Blake of Montreal. On completing his prof-
ession he entered into partnership with Dr. Page, and
secured very soon an extensive practice which was only
relinquished when his health and strength would allow
him to attend to it no longer.

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