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the Society o f Friends. I lc w as a fanner, and buik a house on his farm. H e died about 1S 30 and is buried in the old Q uaker burying ground at Catawissa, Pa. He married E liiabeth Lew is, and to them were bom live sons and three daughters: Benjamin married Elizabeth V an Z an t; .Ann married Thomas Robbins; Hannah married Peter, son o f B en ­ jam in V astin e; M ary married William M arsh; John married Catherine O sm un; Jeremiah married H. R eeder; Thomas died unm arried; Jonathan married Nancy Ann Hughes. Amos Vastine. sixth son o f Benjamin and M ary (Griffith) Vastine, married Martha ‘ITiomas, and they were the parents o f two daughters: Dorothy married Benjamin, son of Benjamin V astin e; M artha married Robert C. Shannon. Benjamin Vastinc, son o f John and Rachel ( M o ^ n ) Vastine, married M aiy ’an Zant, and they were the parents o f three sons: Ben­ jamin. Tliomas and John. Benjamin A’astine, son o f Beniamin and M ary ( ’an zTant) Vastinc, married Elizabeth Hauck, and they were the p.irents of the follow ing: M aigarct, who married William S av id g c; A rm and; H arriet, who married Alem H ughes; .Algernon, and Thomas. Thom as Vastinc, son o f Benjamin and M ary (V an Zant) Vastine, married Sarah Ellis, and they became the parents o f four sons and secn daughters: .Ann (married George Pen­ t y l), Lucinda (niarricd John A dam s). M ary, Samantha, Bcnneville, Grace Ella, Jto n, R u ­ fus, Thomas J .. Jan e and Sarah Matilda. (V an Z.'int) Vastine. married .Sarah Scott, and their children w ere: Hannah, who mar­ ried Mahlon H u ff; E lle n : Sarah Ja n e; Ben­ jam in; Catherine, and Isabella. Peter Vastine, son o f Benjamin and Cath­ erine (E ato n ) Vastine, married Hannah, daughter o f Jonathan Vastinc. and thcir union w as blessed by the birth o f nine children: Catherine, unm arrieil: Elizabeth, who m ar­ ried John Colket; Benjamin, who married M ay Yoclcr; M aiy. who married Henry Jo h n ­ son; .Ann, who married H enry Boone; Lydia, married to Charles House! late in Hfc; T h on u s Jefferson, who married Harriet P a x ­ to n : Peter E .. who nurried M aiy M iller; and Jerem iah, unmarried. Benjamin Vastine. son o f Benjamin and Catherine (Eaton) Vastine. n urried Doro­ thy, daughter o f .Amos Vastine. T hey were the parents o f two ilaughters: Martha, w ife o f loci M ilk r; and Catherine, w ife o f Ben­ jamin Miller.
 * John Vastine. son o f Benjamin and M ary

Benjam in V’astinc, son of Jonathan and E lizab ^ h (L e w is) Vastine, niarricd E liza­ beth Van Zant, by whom he had one son and three daughters: Lew is married M artha Boone; M ary married Samuel Boone; Ann married Isaac W olverton; Rachel n u rried John M. Houscl. L ew is Vastinc, son o f Benjamin and E liz a ­ beth (V an Zant) Vastinc, married M artha Boone, and they were the parents of the fo l­ lowing children: Ilannah (m arried Dudley .Adams), M argaret (married Jacob B . G ear­ h art), Rachel Jane, Elizabeih (m arried Jo h n H . M orrall), Matilda (nu rried Abraham G u lick). S a r ^, M artha. William B., l.ew is B. and George. John Vastinc, son o f Jonathan and E liza­ beth (L e w is) Vastinc, inherited a part o f hts father's farm and in 18 33 buih what to his descendants is known as the "Stone H ouse" — now owned by Gessic P. Savidgc— where he lived. He married Catherine Osmun. T o them were bom four sons and three daugh­ ters: Elizabeth (died at the age o f seven­ teen), W illiam, Amos, M argaret. Sarah .Ann, T h on u s Princan d John (w ho graduated from Jefferson Medical College, and died shortly afterw ard, in his twenty-second ye ar). William Vastine, son o f John and Catherine (O sm un) Vastinc. on Jan. 24, 1833, married Elizabeth, daughter o f John and Salome (R e e d ) Hursh. When he was twenty-one years old they settled on a farm, then owned by his father-in-law, later descending to his wife. In 1843. in line with the custom of his forefathers, he built himself a house. It is now the property o f his granddaughters. Katherine M. and Ellen E .. daughters o f Si­ mon and Elizabeth ( F a u x ) Vastine. H e was a large landowner, cultivating between 450 and 500 acres. In religious faith he was a member of the Lutheran Church. Politically he was a W hig. H e died in 1839. T o Mr. and M rs. Vastine were bom six sons and two daughters: Amos. Jaco b Ilu rsh, Ilugli Hursh. Simon, Ezra, Elizabeth Ann, Daniel and E lk n, the two last named dying before reaching the age o f twelve. Each received an eilucation beyond the common schools. •Amos Vastine, eldest son o f W illiam and Elizabeth (H u rsh ) V'astine, is mentioned be­ low with the account o f his son WilUam. Jacob Ilu rsh Vastinc. second son o f Wil­ liam and Elizabeth (H u rsh ) Vastinc. grad­ uated from Jefferson Medical College in 1858. Jn i86t he marricil Sarah, daughter o f George Hughes. H e practiced in Numidia. Columbia Co.. Pa.. Liter removing to Danville, Montour