The Hastings of Boylston, Massachusetts

＂The fascinating history of the Hastings family of Boylston, Massachusetts. Thomas Hastings arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634 as part of the Great Migration. His decendants, beginning in 1724, made their way through the wilderness to an area in Central Massachusetts that would later become the Town of Boylston. They established themselves as farmers and through five generations built a family enterprise lasting into the 20th century. The Hastings were stewards of the land and stalwarts within the community during a period in which family farms were critical to the Central Massachusetts economy and society.＂--

Gordon Hastings is the ninth generation of Hastings living in the ＂New World.＂ He is a writer and the author of an up-coming memoir of his childhood in Boylston Massachusetts titled Rocky Road to Dublin. He is co-author of the memoir A Man And His Medium. He writes the book blog Gordon’s Good Reads @ gordonsgoodreads.com