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Howard3 Hastings was born c1703. Howard died 1747 at 44 years of age.
Macauley: His eldest son, Howard, a well-conducted young man, obtained a place in the Customs. 4. Penniston2 Hastings (Penyston1) was born in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire 19 October 1677.
He married Priscilla Gardiner in Guiting Power, Gloucester, 1 January 1703. Priscilla was born in Guiting Power Grange, Gloucester 5 October 1680.
Story of Churchill: Penystone Hastings' third son, Rev. Penystone Hastings, was born in 1678 and was the grandfather of Warren Hastings. In 1695 he went to Balliol College, Oxford, took his B.A. degree in 1699, and was ordained in 1701 and presented by his father-the Squire of Daylesford-with the living of Daylesford, which had been vacated by the Rev. Charles Penystone, Fellow and later Vice-President of Magdalen College. (He had probably kept the living until Penystone Hastings was ordained.) Two years after he became Rector of Daylesford, he married Priscilla, daughter of Will. Gardiner, of Lower Guiting (Glos.). He had a son (besides three other children) named Penniston (as it is now spelt), who was the father of Warren Hastings. In 1715 Squire Hastings sold the Daylesford estate to Jacob Knight, a Bristol merchant, the manor of Yelford having been sold to Speaker Lenthal. By 1730 the Rev. Penniston Hastings had left his house at Daylesford (though not the living) and taken a house in Churchill. A dispute with the new Squire over a matter of tithes was said to be the cause of his move.
Macauley: The Hastings of that time was a zealous cavalier. He raised money on his lands, sent his plate to the mint at Oxford, joined the royal army, and, after spending half his property in the cause of King Charles, was glad to ransom himself by making over most of the remaining half to Speaker Lenthal. The old seat at Daylesford still remained in the family; but it could no longer be kept up; and in the following generation it was sold to a merchant of London.
Before this transfer took place, the last Hastings of Daylesford had presented his second son to the rectory of the parish in which the ancient residence of the family stood. The living was of little value; and the situation of the poor clergyman, after the sale of the estate, was deplorable. He was constantly engaged in lawsuits about his tithes with the new lord of the manor, and was at length utterly ruined.
His eldest son, Howard, a well-conducted young man, obtained a place in the Customs. The second son, Pynaston, an idle worthless boy, married before he was sixteen, lost his wife in two years, and died in the West Indies, leaving to the care of his unfortunate father a little orphan, destined to strange and memorable vicissitudes of fortune.
Penniston Hastings and Priscilla Gardiner had the following children:
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Howard3 Hastings was born c1703. Howard died 1747 at 44 years of age.
Macauley: His eldest son, Howard, a well-conducted young man, obtained a place in the Customs.
Howard HASTINGS - International Genealogical Index/BI Mrs Howard Hastings 2034373 Gender: M Marriage: Abt. 1730 Westminster, London, England
Howard HASTINGS - International Genealogical Index/BI Jane MASON M019021 Gender: M Marriage: 22 Jan 1741 Saint George Mayfair, Westminster, London, England
Joseph Creswicke was one of his executors.
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Penniston Hastings was born 27 February 1704.
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Priscilla Maria Elizabeth Hastings was born 15 September 1706.
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Elizabeth Hastings was born 9 September 1708.
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