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The eldest child of this marriage was
Dr. Thomas Hastings, born July I, 1652,
in Watertown, died July 23, 1712, in Hatfield,
Massachusetts. He studied medicine
and practiced in Hatfield, North-
ampton, Hadley and Deerfield, being for
many years the only physician in those
towns. He was also the first school
teacher in Hatfield, and a remarkable
thing for the times is that girls were ad-
mitted to his school on the same footing
as boys. Elsewhere in New England,
until after the Revolution, girls were not
taught in the public schools, not even in
Boston until 1789. He married, October
10, 1672, Anna Hawks, baptized August
4, 1649, m Windsor, daughter of Sergeant
John and Elizabeth Hawks, of Hadley.
She died October 25, 1705.
Their eldest son, Dr. Thomas Hast-
ings, was born September 24, 1679, in
Hatfield, was like his father a school
teacher and physician, and died April 4,
1728, a comparatively young man. He
was taken ill on a visit in Boston and predicted
the date of his own death. He mar-
ried, March 6, 1701, Mary, daughter of
John and Mary Field, born February 20,
1680, died November 9, 1764.
Their fourth son, Hopestill Hastings,
born April 13, 1718, in Hatfield, was a
farmer there, and died November 24,
1766, in his forty-eighth year. He mar-
ried, in 1 741, Lydia Frary.
Their second son, Dr. Seth Hastings,
was born December 6, 1745, in Hatfield,
and settled in the practice of his profession
at Washington, Connecticut, whence
he removed, in 1777, to Clinton, Oneida
county, New York, and there died April
29, 1830, aged eighty-four years. He
married, November 10, 1779, Eunice
Parmlee, eldest daughter of Captain
Thomas Parmlee, born December 30,
1763, died May 2, 1821.
Their eldest child, Seth Hastings, was
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born August 23, 1780, in Clinton, and
after due preparation commenced the
practice of medicine there in 1802. He
married, September 12, 1802, Hulda,
daughter of John Clark, of Clinton, form-
erly of New York, born May 14, 1783.
Their second son, George Hastings,
was born March 13, 1807, in Clinton,
graduated at Hamilton College, in 1826,
when nineteen years of age, and engaged
in the practice of law at Mount Morris,
Livingston county, New York. He was
a member of the Congregational church.
He married, October 10, 1832, Mary H.
Seymour, born July 31, 1808, in Herkimer,
died February 25, 1845, m Mount
Morris, daughter of Norman Seymour, of
Rome, New York.
Their eldest son, George Seymour
Hastings, was born September 24, 1836,
at Mount Morris, and became very con-
spicuous in public life. For some time
he served as private secretary to Gov-
ernor Fenton, of New York, and subse-
quently engaged in the practice of law in
New York City. At the beginning of the
Civil War, he raised a company which
became a part of the Twenty-first Artil-
lery of New York. He was made pris-
oner by the Confederate forces in battle,
but finally escaped from captivity and
returned to his practice in New York,
where he died January 1, 1909. He mar-
ried, January 27, 1876, Harriette Mills
Southworth, who was born in West
Springfield, Massachusetts, daughter of
Wells and Maria (Gillette) Southworth,
descended from Edward Southworth,
born about 1590. in England, and died
about 1621. He was a silk worker in Leyden,
one of the Pilgrim exiles who
formed Rev. John Robinson's church, a
descendant of the Southworths of Sam-
ulesbury Hall, Lancashire, established in
the thirteenth century. He married,
May 28, 161 3, Alice Carpenter, who after