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(III) Joseph Hastings, son of John Hast- ings, was born in Watertown and baptized July 10, 1698. His home was on the Trapalo
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road, now called North street. He was a housewright and farmer. He was selectman of Waltham in 1748. He died March 23. 1783. aged eighty-five. He married (first ), 1716, Lydia Brown, daughter of Captain Abraham and Mary ( Hyde) Brown, of Watertown. He married (second ), January 16, 1769, Sarah Stearns, born May 22, 1744, daughter of Dea- con Isaac and Elizabeth (Child) Stearns. Chil- dren: I. Elizabeth, born March 4, 1717, mar- ried. April 8, 1735, Samuel Whitney. 2. Lydia, born November 26, 1718, married, October 19, 1738, Lieutenant Zachariah Smith, Jr .: died July 18, 1796. 3. Grace, born April 2, 1720. married, May 3, 1739, Phineas Warren : died September 7, 1805. 4. Joseph, born June 1. 1722, married, July 10, 1744. Hannah Hast- ings : died February 1, 1805. 5. Infant, born and died 1724. 6. Lucy, born April 9. 1726, married, 1746, Moses Winship. 7. Josiah, born February 28, 1728, mentioned below. 8. Jonas, born September 15, 1729. married, February 26, 1756, Mary Benjamin. 9. Susanna, born May 26, 1731, married, November 16, 1749. John Cutter. 10. Eliphalet, born October 10. 1734, married, August 20, 1761, Susan Fiske. 1I. Thankful, born October 12, 1736, married, May 31. 1753. Elnathan Allen : died March 29. 1807. 12. Sarah, born November, died December, 1737. 13. Infant, born and died 1739. 14. Iois, born May 4, 1742, married. May 17. 1764. Elisha Hobbs.
(IV) Josiah Hastings, son of Joseph Hast- ings, born February 28, 1728, died August 10. 1802. He was a housewright and farmer, and resided on the homestead in Waltham. He was selectman and assessor during the period of the revolution. He served in the revolu- tion in Captain Abraham Pierce's company and answered the Lexington alarm. April 19, 1775. and was on guard duty until the Saturday after the fight. He was also in Captain Caleb Brooks' company, Colonel Dike's regiment, in 1776-77, and in Captain Abraham Pierce's company. Colonel Eleazer Brooks' regiment at Cambridge in 1778 on guard duty. He mar- ried, June 4. 1752, Lydia Ball, born August 6. 1730, died September 5. 1798, daughter of John and Mary ( Benjamin ) Ball, of Waltham. Children: 1. Lydia, born May 18. 1753, died May 6, 1754. 2. Lydia, born July 7. 1755, died August, 1755. 3. Susanna, born January 6, 1758, married, April 4. 1782, Jonas Viles : died December 14. 1784. 4. Josiah, born April 4. 1760, mentioned below. 5. Irene, born August 4. 1762, married, May 24: 1787. Jonas Viles. former husband of her sister Susanna. 6.
Samuel, born June 27, 1765, married, June 13, 1795. Abigail Stearns; died September 29, 1803. 7. Isaac, born October 12, 1768, mar- ried, December 6, 1803. Sarah Whitney : died May 3. 1805. 8. Elijah, born December 28. 1771. 9. Sally, born June 13. 1775, married. October 25. 1803, Ebenezer Cheney.
(V) Captain Josiah Hastings, son of Josiah Hastings, born Waltham, April 4, 1760, died at Weston, June 30, 1843. About 1790 he re- moved to Weston. He was considered a suc- cessful man, accumulating a fair property, be- sides raising a large family. He had much natural ability and was self-educated. took great interest in military affairs, and was captain of the Weston company of militia, which together with the Medford company formed the Governor's Life Guards. Captain Hastings, being the senior officer, commanded both companies. On one occasion, at the cele- bration of Cornwallis Day, he took the part of General Washington and old Deacon Abraham Hews the part of Cornwallis. He was fond of music and had a clear tenor voice, which he retained until his death. In personal ap- pearence he was of large physique and com- manding presence: he had blue eyes and a fresh complexion, and his unfailing good na- ture made him very popular. He was careful in his dress, and wore white vests until he was over eighty years old. Notwithstanding his weight he was active. He married ( first ). March 4. 1784, Mary Flagg, who was burned to death about 1818 in a fire which destroyed their home, while trying to save some of the household goods. She was daughter of Wil- liam and Lydia (Child ) Flagg, of Ashby. He married (second ) Susan Flagg, her sister, widow of Ephraim Adams. He died in Wes- ton, June 30, 1843, aged eighty-three. Chil- dren : 1. Jonas, born September 22, 1785. mentioned below. 2. Josiah, born May 1, 1787. flied November 5. 1850 : married. April 8, 1845. Zabiah C. Warren, of Weston. 3. Francis, married ( first), 1816, Nabby Pierce, of Wes- ton : (second). Sarah Pierce, born Novem- ber II, 1796. 4. Polly, born January 8, 1792, (lied March 24, 1841 : married, October 8. 1811. Jonathan Warren, Jr., of Weston. 5. Lydia, married. April 2, 1812, Abijah Coburn, of Weston : died September 26, 1813. 6. Sophia, married, March 16, 1814. Abijah Coburn as his second wife. 7. William, born November 6. 1799. married (first), July 23. 1823. Mary Pierce, born July 11, 1802, died June 26, 1826; married (second) Maria Pierce ; children: i. Mary, born July 12, 1824, married. November
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13, 1845. George Berkley Cutter, of Weston ; ii. William, born June 26, 1826, married, June 16, 1857. Jennie Wight, of Holliston; iii. Charles Augustus, born October 6, 1832, mar- ried. September 23, 1852, Sarah Kelley, of Boston. 8. Sally, born 1801, died November 30, 1842; married, September 18, 1823, Ezra Warren, of Weston. 9. Henry, born 1802, died April 5, 1833.
(VI) Jonas Hastings, son of Captain Josiah Hastings, was born at Waltham, September 22, 1785. He was brought up on his father's farm, and was educated in the district schools. He came with his father to Weston when a boy. He learned the trade of shoemaker, and like all thrifty farmers of his day followed a trade during the winter. His two eldest chil- dren, Jonas and Francis, were born on the farm where Ezra Warren lived. Later he bought the old Whitney place formerly owned by the proprietor of the famous "Punch-Bowl" Tavern of Brookline, Massachusetts, and the site of the Whitney tavern. Jonas bought the place about 1812 of General Gleazon and lived on it three years. His children, Eliza Jane and Henry, were born there. He sold it to Converse Bigelow and it is now owned or was lately owned by Thomas Coburn, but known generally as the "Old Bigelow Place." Jonas lived one year at Lincoln on a farm he bought of William May for $1,600. This farm ad- joined the place of his brother-in-law, John Wright Warren, who married Harriet Cooley. and who kept a general store at Lincoln. He returned to Weston and bought the present Hastings homestead, erecting the house now standing, and following his trade as shoemaker in addition to conducting the farm. In his later years he was assisted by his son Francis. The farm is now the home of his granddaugh- ter, Mary J. Giddings. Jonas died August 28, 1865, on his homestead. He was generally known by the title of major, though he held no military commission. He was a Democrat in politics and a Unitarian in religion, and was respected by his townsmen. He was a useful citizen of many good deeds, of noble qualities of heart and mind, and irreproachable charac- ter. He married (first ), July 29, 1806, Betsey Warren, sister of his sister Polly's husband, Jonathan Warren, Jr., and daughter of Jona- than and Elizabeth (Weston) Warren, of Weston. lle married (second), May 22, 1851, Zabiah C. Warren, cousin of his first wife. widow of his brother, Josiah Hastings, and daughter of the Rev. Silas and Abigail ( Smith ) Warren. Children of first wife: 1. Jonas,
born September 18, 1807, died January, 1871 ; settled in Concord. 2. Francis, born June 12, 1809, mentioned below. 3. Eliza Jane, born March 9, 1812, married S. H. F. Bingham, of Weston, and had Lucy L. Bingham, who mar- ried Otis Floyd. 4. Henry, born March 1I, 1813, died July 31, 1835. 5. George, born May 23, 1817, died October, 1866; resided in Cali- fornia. 6. Charles, born December 16, 1819, died September 4, 1843.
(VII) Francis Hastings, son of Jonas Hast- ings, born Weston, June 12, 1809, died there April 3, 1889. He received his education in the district school, attending winters until he was about fifteen years of age, and assisting his father on the farm. He early learned the trade of shoemaker, and as was the custom worked in the little shop near the house with his father. The business was profitable, and furnished employment to many of the towns- people. His work received the first prize in the forties given by the Charitable and Me- chanics Association of Boston. Francis was the only son who remained on the farm, and he cared for his parents in their declining years, sacrificing his ambitions for a more ex- tended field of labor. He and his father made the farm a profitable business, and at his father's death Francis inherited the home- stead, which consisted of about eighty acres on North avenue, the old Concord road, in the north part of Weston. This road is a direct continuation of North Beacon street, Boston. The farm was run on business prin- ciples and by the most improved methods. Mr. Hastings was always interested in politics, both of the town and nation. He was a Republican, and a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln. He served on the school and other committees of Weston, and did well his part as a useful citi- zen. At the age of eighteen he joined the mili- tia company, but was finally exempted on ac- count of his bad eyesight. His reputation for honorable dealing in all business transactions was of the highest, and it was his pride to pay cash for everything, and he taught his children to do the same. In religion he was a Unitarian. He was beloved by all, and was affectionately called "Uncle Frank" by those who knew him. He married, June 20, 1833, at Dana, Massachu- setts, Mary Warren Cooley, born at Somers, Connecticut, December 17, 1810, died at Wes- ton, February 9. 1888, daughter of Weston and Mary ( Warren) Cooley. Her father was a farmer of Dana. Children: 1. Mary Jane, born April 20, 1834, married, February 9, 1854, Joseph Warren Giddings, son of Dr.
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Joseph Giddings, of Dana. 2. Francis Henry. born July 13. 1836, mentioned below. 3. Clark Cooley, born October 20, 1838, married, Octo- ber 9, 1862, Mary Jane Bemis. 4. Sarah Lu- celia, born October 20. 1841, died November 30, 1865 ; married. September 22, 1850, Francis Copeland, of Sterling, and had Mary G. Cope- land, born September 27. 1861, died December 22, 1880; married J. B. Smith. 5. Charles Luke, born April 4, 1843, shot by accident De- cember 5. 1866. 6. Ella Antoinette. born Aug- ust 14, 1845, died July 30, 1850. 7. Clara Sophia, born August 16. 1848, died December 20, 1871. 8. Fannie Verlina, born September 26, 1850, died January 25. 1853.
(VIII) Francis Henry Hastings, son of Francis Hastings, was born at Weston, July 13. 1836. He attended the public schools of his native town, and worked on his father's farm during his boyhood. At the age of four- teen, his uncle, Samuel H. F. Bingham, became interested in him and gave practical instruc- tions in mechanism for two or three years. Later. when nineteen years old, in 1855. he was employed as bookkeeper at the church organ factory of E. & G. G. Hook. His man- val training by his uncle and a natural apti- tude attracted him to the technical part of business, a work in which he was so greatly interested that for a time he did much of his regular office work at his home out of business hours, to gain time for work in the mechanical departments, and in acquiring the art and science of organ-building as then known in this country. In ten years of earnest endeavor he was able to design, devise and direct the entire construction of all parts and pipes which were comprised in what were then the largest organs contructed in this country, and was a partner in the firm which became E. and G. G. Hook & Hastings until 1880 when, after the death of the Hook Brothers the name became Hook & Hastings, although Mr. Hastings then became the sole proprietor of the business. In 1887 he commenced to build his new factory at "Hastings," in the town of Weston. The site was chosen with good judgment ; the rail- road facilities were excellent. He built cot- tages for the employees, and the plant to-day is the largest and best equipped organ factory in the world. The business was incorporated in 1893 under the name of the Hook-Hastings Company under the laws of Massachusetts. Mr. Hastings' son, F. Warren Hastings, was associated with his father as president of the company, and Mr. Hastings, Sr. its treasurer. The business has been in existence since 1827
when Mr. Elias Hook, who had learned the art of organ building with William M. Good- rich, a noted pioneer in the business, began to manufacture pipe organs in partnership with his brother, George G. Hook, in Salem. The firm soon moved to Boston, and under the firm name of E. & G. G. Hook made an excellent reputation. During the half century in which Mr. Hastings has been connected with this house, its name has continued to grow and its business to greatly increase and flourish. Mr. Hastings has spared no effort or expense to develop and elevate the standard of organ building art, and his success is manifest by the high and far reaching exhibit of the reputationof the house. Since 1885 Mr. Hastings has resided in the country home he built for his son on what was the old Hastings farm in that part of Weston now known as Kendal Green. In reli- gion he is a Unitarian, in politics a Republican.
He married ( first ). September 16, 1857 Married ( second ), April 27, 1899, Anna Cutter Coburn, born at Weston, February 7. 1853. daughter of Isaac and Julia ( Cutter ) Coburn, of Weston. Child of first wife: Francis Warren, born July 10, 1862, mentioned below.
(IX ) Francis Warren Hastings, only son of Francis Henry Ilastings, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, July 10, 1862. died in War- wick, Bermuda, May 11, 1903. He was a graduate of the Roxbury Latin School, and member of the class of 1885, Harvard Univer- sity. Near the end of the third year of his successful course with loving and respecting associates, his high hopes and expectations were crushed by failing strength. He sought recovery by unavailing sacrifices, and though separated from his class-mates he kept to the course he had adopted for his life work, main- taining his plan of study as his broken health allowed. As a diversion, and for a time, he associated himself with his father and in 1893 was elected president of the Hook-Hastings Church Organ Company. Continued ill health compelled him to seek a milder climate. In- creasing weakness and partial blindness inter- rupted the studies he had resumed. He could not avail of his books except as they were read to him by those engaged daily for this purpose. Shut out from all else of common life, his studies and books were all that were left for his closing years in Bermuda, away from old friends and relations, yet with new and devoted friends drawn by his rare per- sonality, his patient resignation, and cheerful courage. Dying in Bermuda in 1903, he was buried there in the old Pembroke church yard.
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William French, the immigrant FRENCHI ancestor of this family, was born in Halsted, county Essex, England, March 15, 1603. and died at Billerica, Massachusetts. November 20. 1681, aged sev- enty-seven. He married first, Elizabeth ( surname believed to be Symmes, sister of Rev. Zachariah Symmes), and had four chil- dren born in England. He came to America on the ship "Defense," with Rev. Thomas Shepard and his brother Samuel, Roger Harla- kenden and George and Joseph Cooke, in the summer of 1635. He settled first in Cam- bridge, and in 1652 was one of the original proprietors and first settlers of Billerica. He was lieutenant of the militia, and afterwards captain ; was the first man chosen to sit in the "deacon's seat." 1659 : commissioner to estab- lish the country rates in 1659: selectman in 1660, and for nine years in all; was on a committee to examine children and servants in reading, religion and the catechism in 1661 : was the first representative or deputy to the general court at Boston, elected 1660, and taking his seat 1663. A tract written by him, entitled "Strength out of Weakness," in which he gives a detailed account of the testimony of an Indian convert to Christianity, was publish- ed in London and afterward republished in the "Massachusetts Historical Society Collec- tions." He bought part of the old Dudley farm in Billerica, and his house stood near the turnpike, east of the Bradford road, near Ralph Hill's house. Hill called him brother in his will. French was a tailor by trade. His wife Elizabeth died March 31. 1668, and he married second, May 6, 1669, Mary, widow of John Stearns, daughter of Thomas Lathrop, of Barnstable. Massachusetts. Ilis widow married, June 29. 1687. Isaac Mixer, of Water- town. His estate was divided December 6, 1687, between the widow and three daugh- ters-Mary Sharp, and Sarah and Hannah French. Children of William and Elizabeth French : 1. Frances, born about 1625. 2. Elizabeth, born 1629-31 : married - Ellis, of Watertown. 3. Mary, born 1633. 4. John, born 1635: mentioned below. 5. Sarah, born March 1638. 6. Jacob, born March 16, 1639- 40. 7. Hannah, born February 2, 1641-2: died June 20 following. 8. Samnel, born December 3. 1645 : died July 15, 1646. 9. Samuel, born after 1646, pioneer in Dunstable, Massachu- setts. Children of William and Mary French : 10. Mary, born April 3, 1670: married Na- thaniel Dunclee. 11. Sarah, born October 29, 1671 ; married ---- Sharp, who died in mili-
tary service ; married second, Joseph Crosby. 12. Abigail, born April 14, 1673; died April 13. 1674. 13. Hannah, born January 25, 1676; married October 5. 1693. John Child, of Water- town.
A descendant of Lieutenant William French through his second son, John, himself named William French, a resident of Dummerston in the New Hampshire grants, was the celebrated victim of the Westminster massacre in 1775. As this was the direct result of the first orga- nized resistance to British authority in the American colonies, William French has been claimed as the first martyr to the cause of American independence. On his gravestone is this quaint inscription :
"In memory of William French Son to Mr. Nathaniel French. Who was shol at Westminster March ye 13th, 1775, by the hands of Cruel Ministerial tools Of Georg ye 3d, in the Corthonse at 11 o'clock at Night in the 23d year of his Age.
"HERE WILLIAM FRENCH his Body lies For Murder his Blood for Vengeance Cries King Georg the third his Tory Crew that with a Bawl his Head Shot threw For Liberty and his Countrys Good he Lost his Life his dearest blood '
(II) John French, son of Lientenant Wil- liam French ( 1), was born in England early in 1635, and was brought over when but five months old by his parents. He died in Bill- erica, Massachusetts, October, 1712. He re- sided on the south side of Fox Hill, on the east road. Ile was a soldier in King Philip's war and was a corporal in the fight at Brook- field, 1675. He was wounded in this assault at Quaboag ( Brookfield ), and in petition subse- quently describes himself as a "poor, wounded" man. He was poor enough for a time, and was harassed by the constable before he recovered from the losses of the war. He was an influ- ential citizen of Billerica, and held many town offices from time to time. He married first. Jime 21, 1659. Abigail Coggan, daughter of Henry Coggan of Barnstable, Massachusetts. She died April 5, 1662, aged twenty-four, and he married second. July 3. 1662, Hannah Bur- rage, daughter of John, of Charlestown. She died July 7. 1667. aged twenty-three. He mar- ried third, January 14, 1667-8, Mary Rogers, daughter of John. She died June 16, 1677. and he married fourth, January 16, 1677-8. Mary Kittridge, widow of John. She died October 7. 1719, surviving him. Children of John and Hannah French: 1. Hannah, born January 20, 1663-4: married John Kittridge.
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2. Abigail, born December 6, 1665: married Benjamin Parker. Child of Mary ( Rogers) : 3. Mary, born March 4, 1669-70: married Na- than Shed. Children of John and Mary ( Kit- tridge ) French: 4. John, born May 15. 1679. 5. Elizabeth, born July 24. 1681 : married De- cember 25, 1706, Thomas Abbott. 6. William, born November 26, 1683 : died April 21, 1685. 7. Sarah, born September 15, 1685; married Flint. 8. William, born August 8. 1687: mentioned below. 9. Hannah, born February 18, 1602-3: married Jonathan Rich- ardson and Benjamin Frost.
( III) Sergeant William French, son of John French (2), was born in Billerica, August 8. 1687, and died there February 25. 1745-6. He married Mehitable Patten, born February 28. 1686-7. daughter of Thomas Patten. She died January 15, 1742-3. Ile ( Patten ) lived on the west side of Long street, south of the common. Billerica, and in the time of Indian alarms his house was used for a garrison. He owned a saw-mill near Pattenville: married. April 1. 1662, Rebecca Paine, daughter of Thomas Paine, of Dedham. Rebecca died May 19. 1680, and Patten married second, May 20. 1686, Sarah Didson, widow of Reading. Thomas was son of the immigrant, William Patten, of Cambridge and Billerica. Children of William and Mchitable French : 1. Wil- liam, born January 25, 1712-3, mentioned be- low. 2. Elizabeth, born April 13. 1716; mar- ried Ephraim Kidder. 3. Mehitable, born August 29, 1718; married September 23, 1741 John White. 4. Nathaniel, born February 2. 1720-1 ; married September 28, 1744, Elizabeth Frost, daughter of William ; their son William was the Westminster martyr, mentioned above. 5. Jonathan (twin ), born May 28, 1724; died June 20 following. 6. David (twin), born May 28, 1724. 7. Sarah, born April 28, 1728; married March 17. 1746, Daniel Kittridge. 8. John, born May 27. 1730.
( IV) William French, son of Sergeant Wil- liam French (3), was born in Billerica, Janti- ary 25. 1712-3. Ile removed from Billerica about 1775 to Hollis, New Hampshire, where several of this family settled. Afterward he made his home at Bedford, New Hampshire. He was a farmer. He married Tabitha Children, born at Billerica: 1. Jonathan, born October 10. 1737: died at Billerica. 2. Wil- liam, born February 16, 1738-9: died at Bed- ford, New Hampshire. 3. Joseph, born De- cember 10, 1740 : resided in Hollis. 4. Tabitha. born December 31, 1742. 5. Benjamin, born February 18, 1744-5, tanner, resided at Dra-
cut, Massachusetts, and at Milford, New Hampshire. 6. Nehemiah, born March 29. 1746; settled in Hollis and Lyndeborough, New Hampshire, and removed finally to Ver- mont, where he died. 7. Mehitable, born Feb- ruary 5, 1747-8 : died young. 8. Stephen, born 1749, baptized December 31, 1749; mentioned below. 9. Ephraim, born November 10, 1751 ; died at Amherst, New Hampshire. 10. David, born September 15. 1754: married Lydia Par- ker, daughter of Josiah; moved to Bedford, February, 1782: died June 13, 1790; was soldier in the revolution. 11. Mehitable, born August 18, 1756: married Job Bailey, of Wil- ton, New Hampshire. 12. Betsey, married Daniel Bailey, of Hollis, New Hampshire.
(V) Stephen French, son of William French (4), was baptized in Billerica, Decem- ber 31, 1749. He removed from Billerica to Bedford, New Hampshire, about 1773, and lived there the rest of his days. He married. January 7, 1773. Dolly Coburn, of Dracut, Massachusetts, born June 10. 1754, daughter of Ebenezer and Sarah Coburn and grand- daughter of Jonathan and Phebe Coburn, of Dracut. Children, born in Bedford, New Hampshire: 1. Ebenezer, born April 28, 1774: mentioned below. 2. Stephen, Jr., born No- vember 7. 1775, died September 4. 1850, mar- ried, 1800, Hannah Swett, born May 15, 1777 : Lad many children. 3. Dolly, born November 9. 1778: married Gawn Riddle. 4. William, born March 20, 1780: married Nancy Riddle, born January 5. 1781 : settled at Prospect, Maine. 5. Sarah W., born April 10. 1782, mar- ried William McD. Ferson, of Bedford, New Hampshire ; ten children. 6. Leonard C., born February 10, 1785 : selectman, town treasurer, representative to legislature : married January 26, 1808, Nancy Hutchinson, of Merrimac. born April 20. 1787; had many children. 7. Betsey, born April 28, 1789 ; married February 12, 1807, William Bursiel, of Bedford; had many children. 8. Phineas C., born December 14. 1791 ; resided in Bedford; married March 13, 1792, Hannah Cutler ; second, Mary Pat- ten, of Pepperell. 9. James, born November 22, 1794, tanner, unmarried, resided at Bed- ford. 10. Rev. Daniel, born January 2, 1796 ; married Polly Riddle : elder of the church, and later settled minister at Nelson, New Hamp- shire II. Robert W., born October 31, 1801 ; married Harriet Parker, of Merrimac, born June 23. 1802: resided at Merrimac.
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