DESCENDANT LINE:
John HASTINGS (1603 - 1657) & (Unknown)
Deacon Walter HASTINGS (1631 - 1705) & Sarah MEANE (1638 - 1673)
Hannah HASTINGS (1666 - 1732) & Deacon Samuel COOPER (1653 - 1718)
Sarah COOPER (1687 - 1753) & Captain Ephraim FROST (1682 - 1769)
Ephriam FROST III (1715 - 1799) & Mary CUTTER (1715 - 1805)
Amos FROST (1762 - 1850) & Lydia BEMIS (1767 - 1855)
Susan FROST (1801 - 1866) & Thomas TEEL (1799 - 1873)
Abner Gardner TEELE Sr. (1837 - <1870) & Ellen SMITH (~1847 - )
Gardner Abner TEELE Jr.* (1868 - ) & Emma A (1868 - <1920)
Louis Gardner TEELE Sr. (1889 - 1982) & Grace BOULTON (1890 - 1943)
Louis Gardner TEELE Jr. (1913 - 2004) & Margaret Catherine SLINE (1943 - )


THE “HARVARD LAW SCHOOL” CONNECTION:

FROM “AN HISTORIC GUIDE TO CAMBRIDGE”, PUBLISHED BY THE DAR IN 1907:

MEANE-HASTINGS HOUSE— GANNETT HALL (B and C58).

“The corner lot on the turnpike* was granted to John Meane in 1635, who died March 19, 1646, leaving a widow, Ann, and two daughters, Sarah, six years old, and Mary, four. His widow married John Hastings, the tanner, who lived on Brattle street, and was his second wife. His two sons, born in England, married her two daughters. Walter Hastings, the eldest son, married Sarah Meane in 1655, and Samuel Hastings, the second son, married Mary Meane, in 1661. Walter and Sarah Hastings inherited the Meane homestead, and nine children were born to them here, of whom only three lived beyond childhood. A son. Dr. John Hastings, Harvard, 1681, died before 1705 in the Barbadoes; Hannah, who married Samuel Cooper, son of John; and Jonathan. Mrs. Sarah (Meane) Hastings died in 1673, and her husband married, eleven months later, for his second wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Deacon Henry Bright, of Watertown. There were three children by the second marriage, one of whom, Abigail, married Moses Bordman in 1700. The second Mrs. Hastings died in 1702, and six months later, at the age of seventy-two, Deacon Walter Hastings married Elizabetli (Cook), the widow of Elder Jonas Clarke, who survived him. Walter Hastings was deacon of the First Church for twenty years, selectman for thirty years, and was prominent in all public affairs of his time.

*Believe “turnpike” refers to the “road to Concord”, which is roughly modern Massachusetts Avenue, a couple hundred yards north of where it passes the “Old Burying Ground” in Cambridge.

MAP NOTES: This reference has 1776 maps of Cambridge - see maps B and C, locations B58 and C58 therein for the location of the “Meane-Hastings” house. If you roughly overlaid the location of this house on a modern map, you will see it falls within 100 feet of “Hastings Hall”, a building on the campus of the Harvard Law School. And a more recent Harvard description confirms the family connection as follows:

“Originally built as a dormitory, Hastings Hall was a gift to Harvard University from Walter Hastings, whose ancestral home was nearby. The building provides living quarters for ninety-six students in sixty suites. Nine scholarly journals edited by Law School students are located throughout the lower level as well. (NOTE: The “Walter Hastings” who made the gift, was the 3G Grandson of the Deacon Walter Hastings discussed herein.)