Oak family register, 1906

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FAMILY REGISTER
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law, Capt. Benjamin Hastings.
Possibly he may have been the
Nathaniel who
served
later
enlistments
(see
13-55).
If
so
he
sent his wife to Winchester, N. H., to
live with
his mother and
sister, where he soon followed, where most of his children were
born, and where in 1777-83 he bought
in three
lots
176 acres of
land for £508.
In 1790 he removed with his family to Chelsea,
Vt.,
his home
for
half a
century.
There he kept
a
hotel
in
a
building still standing (1900) the hall of which was long used as
county court house, for town meetings, and for meetings of the
Congregational
church.
Later he
lived
in
a
cottage,
also
still
standing; served
as pound-keeper and sexton; took great pride
in his garden
; and worked as a carpenter at odd jobs, being, like
all
his
tribe, "handy
with
tools."
The
large number
of
land
transfers in his name would indicate that he indulged somewhat
in
real estate speculation.
There
are
traditions of considerable
wealth and of extreme poverty, both perhaps well founded, but
exaggerated and
referring
to
different
periods
of
his
life.
In
later years he spent some winters with
his
oldest son
in Bos-
cawen, N. H.
; and
in
1839 went
to
live with
a younger son
in
Exeter,
Me.
There on
a Sunday
in
1840 he
died suddenly
in
church at the age of 89.
He was a man of robust physique and of
jovial temperament, as befitted a landlord
; well known and liked
wherever he lived
; in religion an active Methodist, but
at home
in the meetings of any denomination.
His descendants number
about 500.
Name always "Oak."
III.
CHILDREN OF JONATHAN' (8) AND REBECCA
BARNARD.
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Mary.
Ashburnham, Mass.; born Marlboro
(or Bolton)
July
16,
1741; married Harvard, March
14,
1758; from Middle-
boro to Ashburnham 1776; died September
13,
1794.
She died at a funeral
in church and was carried home on the
bier provided
for the occasion.
Her descendants number
1200.
the largest branch of the
tribe, though the record
in some
lines
is far from complete. Husband, Jonathan^ Sampson, son of PelegJ
and
a
lineal descendant
of Capt.
Miles Standish of the "May-

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