Dr. Waitstill Hastings

Biography

Dr. Waitstill Hastings (1714-1748), son of Dr. Thomas Hastings and Mary A. Field, married on October 1, 1736 to Abigail Marsh (daughter of John Marsh & Hannah Barnard and great-granddaughter of Governor John Webster of Connecticut), in Hatfield, MA.

Together they had the following children:
Hon John Waitsfield Hastings;
Abigail Wolcott (Hastings);
Hannah Bernard Kellogg (Hastings);
Mary Hastings;
Samuel Hastings.

After his death, his widow married John Prentice Bulkeley.

Notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield,_Massachusetts

One family supplied many of Hatfield's physicians for generations. The Hastings family, descendants of English Puritan immigrant Thomas Hastings, was originally settled at Watertown, but within a generation members of the family had relocated to Hatfield, where they produced a succession of Hatfield physicians, including Dr. Thomas Hastings (1652–1712); Dr. Thomas Hastings (1679–1728); Dr. Waitstill Hastings (1714–1748); and Dr. John Hastings (1765–1845).[3] The first Thomas Hastings, aside from serving as physician to Hatfield and surrounding communities, was also the town's first schoolteacher.[4] He authored a contemporary account of the devastating 1704 Indian attack on nearby Deerfield.

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References

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hastings-1557
• http://www.hastingscountry.com/hastings.html
• Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Silver Books, Volume Sixteen, Part 2, The Descendants of John Alden Through His Daughter Elizabeth (Alden) Pabodie, 2002 Edition, Published 2002, Page 220
• Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston: To which is Appended the Early History of the Town. (1860). < GoogleBooks >