death_date death_place religion birth_place profession office birth_date term_start signature article_title term_end name spouses
c. september 15 , 1685 -lrb- aged 80 -rrb- watertown , massachusetts puritanism england farmer , deacon , public official member , general court of massachusetts c. 1605 1673 thomas hastings signature.gif thomas hastings -lrb- colonist -rrb-
 1673 thomas hastings susan -lrb- na -rrb- _____ -lrb- 1600-1650 -rrb-
thomas hastings -lrb- colonist -rrb-

thomas hastings -lrb- c. 1605 -- c. september 15 , 1685 -rrb- was a prominent english immigrant to new england , one of the approximately 20,000 immigrants who came as part of the great migration .
a deacon of the church , among his many public offices he served on the committee of colony assessments in 1640 and as deputy for watertown to the general court of massachusetts in 1673 .
he held property in nearby dedham between 1636 and 1639 , although there is no evidence that he ever lived there .
