Nathaniel Hastings

Biography

II. 6. NATHANIEL HASTINGS, sixth son of THOMAS and MARGARET (CHENEY) HASTINGS, born September 25, 1661; married MARY, born 1668, eldest daughter of JOHN and ELIZABETH NEVINSON of Watertown. Her father came from East Horsley, County Surrey, England, to America, in 1668, as attorney for his father, Rev. ROGER NEVINSON, a clergyman of the Church of England, at Hambledone, County Surrey, who was assignee of heirs of John Flemming who had died in Watertown. Το execute this business, John Nevinson came over. Being an Episcopalian he was debarred many of the privileges of citizenship enjoyed by the Puritans. He continued, however, in that faith, although his wife was admitted to the First Church in Watertown.

Nathaniel Hastings died December 25, 1694; his widow, October 14, 1732, aged 64. Their two children baptized June 26, 1698, in Watertown, by Rev. Henry Gibbs, at the desire of their mother, follow:

• 1. NATHANIEL, son of NATHANIEL and MARY (NEVINSON) HASTINGS, baptized 1698, perhaps then ten years oldbecame a mariner. His will, dated December 6, 1714, as he was bound on a voyage, and proved April 1, 1717, names his mother Mary, and brother John.
• 2. JOHN, son of NATHANIEL and MARY (NEVINSON) HASTINGS, baptized, as above, 1698, probably then some eight years old; married, 1714, MARY and settled in Watertown, near the old burying-ground. His estate, containing 8 acres, he bought of Richard Beers and others, February 27, 1719. This he exchanged with Samuel Stratton, and afterwards resided in the eastern or lower part of Watertown, near the north-east corner of Mount Auburn. In 1757, a strip of land, about one half of a mile in width, on the east side of Watertown, was annexed to Cambridge, and his homestead was thus brought within the limits of Cambridge. He died October, 1746. His 12 children follow, viz.: …

References

1. Thomas Hastings migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 3, p. 235) < AmericanAncestors >; (document attached)
2. The Hastings Memorial: A Genealogical Account of the Descendants ..., Volume 95 By Lydia Nelson Hastings Buckminster. Page 87. < GoogleBooks >
3. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Nevinson-23