Alice Hastings: A Brief Biography

Alice Hastings was born in 1721, in New York. Her father was John Hastings and her mother was Madyson Hastings. Her father was a farmer who sometimes liked to write and often traveled into the busier parts of their town with her older brother Nathan. Her mother worked at home and sometimes would work for a woman who would pay her to clean parts of her house. Alice attended school for part of the day and then would help her mother when she was not in school. Alice had taken after her dad and loved to write in her free time and at school. She had two close friends, their names were Liza and Emily. Her older brother also went to school, but he would help their father work whenever he was not at school. Alice and her mother would

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