Brief Life History of Nathaniel
When Nathaniel Hastings III was born on 24 March 1773, in Berlin, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Nathaniel Hastings Jr., was 34 and his mother, Elizabeth Goodenow, was 28. He married Elizabeth Webster in 1799, in North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in York, York, Home District, Upper Canada, British North America in 1819 and Pickering, Ontario, Ontario, Canada in 1827. He died on 2 March 1834, in Pickering, Durham, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 60, and was buried in Pickering, Durham, Ontario, Canada.
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- Nathaniel Hastings, "United States Census, 1790"
- "The Hastings Memorial", This provides evidence for the following events for Nathaniel Hastings III: Name, Custom Event, Birth, Occupation, Gender
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1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776 · The Declaration to the King
"At the end of the Second Continental Congress the 13 colonies came together to petition independence from King George III. With no opposing votes, the Declaration of Independence was drafted and ready for all delegates to sign on the Fourth of July 1776. While many think the Declaration was to tell the King that they were becoming independent, its true purpose was to be a formal explanation of why the Congress voted together to declare their independence from Britain. The Declaration also is home to one of the best-known sentences in the English language, stating, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."""
1791
Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: habitational name from Hastings (Sussex), near which the English army was defeated by the Normans in 1066. The placename derives from an Old English personal name Hǣsta + the Old English groupname suffix -ingas. In the latter part of the 12th century, at the time of William the Lion, the surname was taken to Scotland, where it assimilated instances of the native Scottish surname Harestane.
English: variant of Hasting with Middle English genitival -s.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hOistín ‘descendant of Oistín’, the Gaelic form of the personal name Augustine (see Austin ).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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Advertisement Nathaniel Hastings, III BIRTH 24 Mar 1773 Berlin, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA DEATH 2 Mar 1834 (aged 60) Pickering, Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario, Canada BURIAL Hast …
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