Sarah Sawyer Hastings

Brief Life History of Sarah Sawyer

When Sarah Sawyer Hastings was born on 2 February 1795, in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States, her father, Jonathan Hastings, was 25 and her mother, Salome Burt, was 23. She married Gardner Snow on 30 November 1814, in Chesterfield, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. She died on 25 April 1855, in Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Manti Cemetery, Manti, Sanpete, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Gardner Snow
1793–1889
Sarah Sawyer Hastings
1795–1855
Marriage: 30 November 1814
Jonathan Hastings Snow
1815–1842
James Chauncey Snow
1817–1884
Warren Stone Snow
1818–1896
George Washington Snow
1820–1905
Eliza Snow
1823–1823
John Snow
1825–1825
Martha Jane Snow
1827–1891
Gardner Hastings Snow
1838–1838
Elizabeth Coolidge Snow
1840–1905

Sources (30)

  • Sarah Snow in household of Gardner Snow, "United States Census, 1850"
  • Sally Hastings, "New Hampshire, Birth Records, Early to 1900" (1795)
  • Sally Hastings, "New Hampshire, Marriage Records, 1637-1947" to Gardner Snow (1814)

World Events (8)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.

While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.

1808 · Concord Becomes the Capital

In 1808, Concord became the capital of New Hampshire. It was originally the Penacook Plantation given to the state by the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

1812

War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.

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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John Crawford, Manti Citizen

CRAWFORD, JOHN, farmer, of Manti, is one of a family of four and was born in Wickston, Peebleshire, Scotland, September 30, 1829. His parents were James and Elizabeth (Brown) Crawford. His father was …

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