Biography

Mentioned in 18380517BJS_WHS: "I requested Mr. Dickson to write Orlando Hastings to mention to any opposing counsel that might be employed, that we were now as we had ever been, willing to adjust the matter by a written contract for payment ten years." From The Hastings Memorial in Google Books: "Orlando Hastings, Son of Dr. Seth and Eunice (Parmlee) Hastings, born March 7 1789; married (1st) November 12, 1812, Betsey Clarke, daughter of John Clarke, born June 27, 1789, and die November 15, 1818, in the 30th year of her age. He married (2d) August 31, 1823, his cousin, Mrs. Lydia F. Hamilton, daughter of Elijah and Jerusha (Billings) Hastings of Amherst, Mass. He was at first a merchant of Clinton, afterwards a lawyer of Genesee, then in Rochester. Had 6 children"