Thomas Eastin 
Thomas was born in 1725 in Devonshire, England. Thomas' father is Jean or Joachim? D'+ Estaing and his mother is Nm+ X. He had two brothers named Phillip and Nicholas. He was the oldest of the three children. He died at the age of 68 on June 14th, 1793 in Albemarle Co., VA.General Notes
The information handed down by my family holds that our D`Estaing/Eastin lineage was of a family of French Huguenots who intermarried with Swiss, Irish, and English during their long exodus down the Rhine River, fleeing after Edict of Nantes was revoked.
The first US Census, Albemarle Co., 1785, shows aThomas Easton (Eastin) with "5 white souls" in his household.
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Thomas Eastin was a resident of Albemarle County in 1778, according to records. "..at age 53, he bought land from Thomas Walker. He was still a legal resident of Albemarle Co at the time he sold the land to Chiles Tyrell in 1850 (Albemarle County Deed Records)." This land comprised 171 acres "on top of the little mountains". According to "Albemarle County of Other Days", by Mary Rawlings, (Charlottesville, VA, The Michie Co. 1925, pg 22), "Nicholas Meriwether was the original grantee of a large tract of land which was partitioned as early as 1739, a large portion 'east' of South West Mountain going to the widow of Nicholas Meriwether III. When the widow Meriwether married Dr. Thomas Walker, this portion of the original grant became known as 'Castle Hill'". This property was later subdivided many times, "resulting in plantations named 'Cismont', 'Castalia,' 'Music Hall', 'Belvoir', 'Kilmnloch', 'Merrie Hill', and others." Source (link below) states that "we know he once lived or certainly owned property on the Fluvanna and Albemarle County lines, as his grandson, Stephen L. Eastin, subsequently homesteaded property in Fluvanna County from which Monticello may still be seen 'when the leaves have fallen.'"
SOURCES: <a href=http://hometown.aol.com/Beastin498/Eastin/d1565.htm>B. Eastin Family</a> (with excerpts above credited to this source.)
Family member and historian Rose Haddle, and Sources 10 and 67.
HISTORICAL HI-LITES: Thomas shares his birth year with the great lover Casanova, Nicolas Appert (father of canning), and Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, who designed and built the first automobile.
‌Thomas and Sarah were married in a religious ceremony in 1744 in Albemarle, Savannah Co., VA. They had ten sons and a daughter, named Samuel, Walker, John+, Augustine, Stephen, James, Philip, William, Aechilles, Reuben and Exoney.
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Children
John+ Eastin
John+ was born in 1746 in Albemarle, VA. He died at the age of 91 in 1837 in Madison Co., KY.
Augustine Eastin
Augustine was born on September 8th, 1750 in Albemarle Co., VA. He died at the age of 83 on November 14th, 1833 in Bourbon Co., KY.
Stephen Eastin
Stephen was born in 1752 in VA. He died at the age of 63 on September 15th, 1815 in Madison Co., KY.
Philip Eastin
Philip was born in 1755 in near Alexandria, Fairfax, VA. He died at the age of 62 in 1817 in near Madison, Jefferson Co., IN. He was buried in Rykers Hill Burying Ground near Madison, IN.
