I was not able to find a site to give me a lot of historical information on the Bastin surname origin. I will post what I have found and suggest that anyone with more information forward it to me.

Spelling variations include: Bastian, Basten, Bastin, Bastien, Bastion, Baston and many more.

First found in Cornwall where they were anciently seated as Lords of the Manor.

Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: the name represented in many forms and recorded from the mid 17th century in the great migration from Europe. Immigrants settled in the eastern seaboard from Newfoundland, to Maine, to Virginia, to the Carolinas, and to the islands