March 6, 1613/14 is his baptismal date at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England.
Roger Haskell, in the company of his brother and sister, William and Joan, his step-father and mother, John and Elinor Stone, and perhaps two sons of John Stone's previous marriage, sailed from England probably in the spring of 1635 and settled in the "Basse River" section (the Cape Ann side, now Beverly) of Salem, Massachusetts.
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In 1636, Hugh Laskin received from the town of Salem, probably an original 300 acre farm, and on 6 April 1654, sold it to Roger Haskell, which included his dwelling, also four score and eighteen acres of upland and the 6 acres of Meadow in the bounds of Salem.Roger worked as a farmer and also with John Hardy as a fisherman. The first few years of the Salem Colony, they followed the sea and made fishing their livelihood.
It is also quite evident from the Will of John Hardy that he enjoyed great fishing interests and also other interests, for he possessed shares in the following ships; 1/4 in the "Aligator", 3/4 in the "Guift", 1/2 in the "Return"', also a boat and a canoe. Hardy's Will was proved 30 January 1652 and he bequeathed all his land lying near the Basse River to Roger Haskell - my Son-in-law (being all the land given him by the town of Salem). He gave Roger a steer & a cow which Roger was then taking care of, also an Ox which John's wife Elizabeth was to pick-from three in the William Flint herd.
John Hardy also made provision for his daughter, Eliz. Hardy Haskell, of a two year old heifer and he also gave her four children, John, William, Mark, and Elizabeth, four sheep. To his widow, Elizabeth, she retained the house and 10 acres.
The will of Elizabeth was filed 1 October 1654 and showed she still owned the Hardy dwelling and 10 acres in the South field.
Roger Haskell and Elizabeth Hardy marry before 1644, when his father-in-law interceded for the 6 acres of Meadow Land for Roger. They lived with the Hardy's for several years before moving to a house of their own.
Roger served on a Jury 1655, 1662, and 1664, also was the Constable of the Basse River side for Salem for two years 1657 and 58. He was in the Court Record several times in connection with his job.
An interesting court case involved a clay pit on the Haskell farm. Osmond Trask had previously been told not to take any more of the clay from the pit, but three weeks later had journeyed to the pit and loaded his wagon. Roger and his son, William, had gone down to confront Mr. Trask about it, at the pit. Trask struck Roger and Roger struck him back with a pitchfork. During the court proceedings, it was stated that Roger was a Surveyor. Roger sustained the fine.
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Copied from the original on file in Essex County Probate Office.The 27: of May: 1667. I Roger Haskell being sick in body, but of perfect memorye, doe make this my last will & testament
-I doe bequeathe & give to my wife two cowes, the one being at our son in lawes, William Dodges, and one at home named Coll.
-I likewise doe bequeathe & give to my three youngest sons Roger, Josiah & Samuel three other cowes, as young white face, velvett & Colly
-likewise I give to my daughters Hannah & Sarah 2 heifers, a red one named Cherry, a yoake of oxen, called Brownie & broade
- I likewise give to my son William, 2 oxin named black & Butler & the horse I had of Nhemiah Grouer
-I likewise give to my son John a lynd ox.
-I likewise to my sister Joane a heifer as soone as the calf is taken of.
-I likewise give to my son marke my Black horse,-and to Roger my Roaned horse,-and to my sons Josiah & Samue1 my two mares.
-Likewise I give to my wife a yearling- and to my daughter Elizabeth the browne yearling-& a yearling to my 3 youngest sons.
-likewise I leave my sheep to a my wife & children to pt them as they think fitt.
-I likewise give to my 3 youngest sons all my lands and houses where I now live, to be equally divided when they come to age, out of same land my will is that they pay to my two daughters: Hannah & Sarah, ten pounds sterling apeace.
-I likewise give to my sons Marke my Barne close, with that meadow that joyne to it, out of the which my will is, that this my sonne is to pay to Hannah & Sarah ten pounds sterling when they come of age
- I likewise bequeathe and glve to my son John & William, forty acres of land apeace, behind the great pond. And likewise that land at Drapers poynt caled mr Gaffords, with time meddow, my will is that my wife shall have the one half & my 3 sons Roger, Josiah & Samuel the other halfe. And my meddow at Bunkers to be devided equally, between my two sons John & William. A likewise my meddow at wenham meddow, either of them an equal proportion.
-Likewise my will is that my son William Dolge shall have half my medow at the great pond, & John & William the other halfe.
-Likewise my will is that William Dodg, shall have ten acres of land most convenient for him, neere his how dwelling. And my two daughters Hannah & Sarah twelve acres apiece out of the same land and the rest of that land to be equally divided amongst my 3 youngest sons provided that the waye my still remain out of that land to my now dwelling.
-I likewise give Roger my steere called Goulding, & Josiah a steure called gallant my son Marke to him I give that land my father in law, John Stone line upon, after his decease,
-I likewise give to my wife one Roome which she please, And that my wife shall have the disposing of this my estate till my sons & Daughters come to age. And upon the same she is to bring them up in the fear of God, and to prouid for them, & my desire is that my brothers, William & Mark Hascall be the over seers to see this my will truly pformed.the mark of R ROGER HASKALL.
Witnes Thomas Pickton.
And also Elizabeth ye wife of said Roger deceased is declared by time court. to be executrix of ye said will. Thomas pickton & John Hill gave oath in court at Salem 26: 4 MO: 1667: that the above named Roger Haskall signed to the above written, & declared it to be his last will & testament, & there was no other will of him the said Roger made alterwards that they know of.
Atest HILLIARD VEREN Clerk
Reference
The Descendants of Thomas White of Marblehead and Mark Haskell of Beverly
Compiled by Perley Derby, Press of David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1872
Elizabeth married Edward Berry, seaman and weaver, before 10 October 1668, for on this date certain rights and property were deeded to one another. The men never thought too much of Berry, for he contested the Will of Roger through Elizabeth, the widow, over some property that Rogers sons sold to Nicholas Woodbury.
William, the brother of Roger, made an appeal to her to not let her new husband dictate his wants to her and thus render the "Will" illegal. Finally the widow went and swore an affidavit to the effect that she had freely given all her inheritance to Roger, her former husband, and wished her children to enjoy it. Edward never got anything from the widow, because of the watchfulness of Uncle William Haskell.
Reference
400 years with Haskell
Ivan Y. Haskell
Digitized copy available on FamilySearch.org
November 8, 1618 is his baptismal date at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England.
William Haskell, in the company of his brother and sister, Roger and Joan, his step-father and mother, John and Elinor Stone, and perhaps two sons of John Stone's previous marriage, sailed from England probably in the spring of 1635 and settled in the Basse River section (Cape Ann side, now Beverly) of Salem, Massachusetts.
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The first mention of William being in Gloucester is in 1643. It is possible, even likely, that he spent the summer of 1643 laying out a farm and building a house on land that was recorded two years later as being on Planter's Neck (now Annisquam).In 1656 William purchases the 10 acres of upland, and 8 acres of salt marsh belonging to Richard Window, together with the house and barn. He arranges for the town clerk to record the purchase in the town records. Then in the next seven years William makes twelve additional purchases of parcels of land (some as small as 2 acres, some as large as 6 acres) for a total of 36 acres. He has the purchase of each parcel recorded and its location carefully described together with a record of the person he bought the parcel from and in some cases he lists the owner before that.
Looking over the old records you can see that William wants no doubts about the legal ownership of the parcels he is buying to come up in the future and you suddenly realize that he is working on a plan. All of the parcels are on Walker Creek as it runs north to the Chebacco line from his new farm and every single parcel is composed solely of salt marsh.
The settlers in New England knew that salt marsh was as valuable as upland if not more so. Not only was tidal marsh valuable for the creatures that could be hunted, fished or trapped there and the clams and mussels that could be dug out of its sandy edges, but salt marsh also produced a superb annual crop of hay without any work other than harvesting. Salt marsh maintains and renews itself with no need to clear it of trees and stumps and no need for plowing, sowing, fertilizing nor any cultivation, weeding, crop rotation or lying fallow.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 34, Spring 1993
Richard Window, William Haskell and subsequent owners of a 1651 grant of land in the Walker Creek Valley, of West Gloucester, Massachusetts
Page 567
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Willliam was mentioned frequently in the early records including 1648 when he, Christopher Waler, and Ralfe Elwood were presented [to the court] for insufficient fences next to the com field on Cape Ann side. He also was quite active in public affairs. He was a Selectman in Gloucester in 1672, 1673, 1678, and 1688. He also served as a deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts in 1672, 1680-1682, 1685, and 1692. In addition, William served on the Jury of Trials in 1657 and 1674, as well as on the Grand Jury 28 November 1682, and 22 April 1683.In 1678, as Sergeant Haskell he returned, to the court held in Ipswich. A list of those men who had taken the Oath of Fidelity included the names of his sons Joseph and John. William was appointed Lieutenant of the "Train Band," 16 March 1680/81 and later made Captain of the same group. He was also one of the first two men appointed Deacons of the First Church in Gloucester where he was a member from 1659 until his death.
On 27 February 1688, Gloucester voted that every householder and young man upwards of twenty one years of age who was born in town or then living in town and bearing charges to the town and county, should have six acres of land. These lots were laid out alphabetically on the west side of "the cut" in an area known today as West Gloucester and Magnolia, William Haskell was granted lot number eleven in this. ("The cut" was a shallow, rock lined canal which united Massachusetts and Ipswich Bays and was just deep enough to accommodate shallops.
Also in 1688, during one of his terms as a selectman, William and five other prominent Gloucester men were arraigned and fined at Salem for the town's refusal to pay the taxes levied on it by Governor Sir Edmund Andros. For his part in this unsuccessful defiance of the crown, Haskell was fined 40 s, plus £ 3:1s in fees.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 34, Spring 1993
Richard Window, William Haskell and subsequent owners of a 1651 grant of land in the Walker Creek Valley, of West Gloucester, Massachusetts
Compiled by Howard V. Williams
Pages 558-576
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William Haskell made his will 5 July 1692 and it was probated 4 September 1693. He named his sons, Joseph and Benjamin, and his grandsons, Mark and William [sons of his deceased son Mark] as his executors. The instrument was signed by William with his mark in the presence of Timothy Day, John Riggs, and John Butman as witnesses. His inventory was taken 25 September 1693 by Thomas Riggs Sr. and William Goodhew and appraised at £ 548: 12 s, including £ 457:20s in real estate.William bequeathed to his wife Mary, in lieu of her dower, one-third for her support and maintenance, the use of the north-east end of his dwelling house for her lifetime, and all household goods except for firearms, edge tools, and all other tools and utensils used for husbandry. His executors were instructed to pay Mary £ 10 annually, and to keep two cows for her use winter and summer, and to provide her with sufficient wood for the year, each and every year.
To his eldest son William Jr., William bequeathed one equal half of his farm at Bradford, six acres of salt marsh in Gloucester, a lot called Hardie's lot, and one equal third of a salt marsh lot in Gloucester called Jackson's lot.
William left his son Joseph three acres of salt marsh, "next to that he sold to Thomas Pinny," a little island of marsh next towards Goodman Crosses, about three acres, and "upon consideration of his six acres that he had by the town's last division of land by way of exchange," he gave and made over to Joseph all that tract of upland lying south of his farm in Gloucester, about twenty acres.
To his son Benjamin, he left the upland where his house stood, seven acres, together with the six acres the town gave to him in the last division of lands, twenty acres more of upland at a place called Stool Rock, and twelve acres of salt marsh, including six acres that Benjamin already possessed, the other six to be given to his son after his decease. All the parcels were in Gloucester.
He gave his son John all that" 'Small Living,' I bought of Deacon Stevens in Gloucester," three acres of salt marsh which was his father Hardies, two-thirds of a salt marsh lot called Jackson's lot, twenty acres of upland next towards Goodman Lufkins, and two more acres of salt marsh to be laid out to him by the executors. All the land was in Gloucester.
He left his daughter Ruth Grover one-quarter part of his farm at Bradford, he bequeathed the other one-quarter to his daughter Mary Dodge. He gave his daughter Eleanor Griggs two acres of salt marsh, while to the heirs of his deceased daughter Sarah Harraden he left ten pounds current pay of the merchants.
William bequeathed to his grandsons Mark and William, sons of his deceased son Mark, "that new house where Elizabeth, Mark Haskell's widow now liveth." He also left his grandsons, a small orchard called Mark's orchard, containing one acre. William stipulated that his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth could occupy and improve all the share of Mark's estate that he had given to his two grandsons, her children, as long as she remained a widow and until the said children came of age. He also said that if Elizabeth did not re-marry and if both of her sons pre-deceased her, she could occupy and improve the children's portion during her natural life after which the estate would revert to the male heir of his son William.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 32, Summer/Fall 1992
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
The English Background and First Generation
Pages 526-531
Marriage Notes for William Haskell and Mary Tybott
MARRIAGE: William Haskell, II, and Mary Tybott may have been married in a civil ceremony performed by a magistrate in Salem, MA, but the marriage is recorded in the Vital Records of Gloucester, v2 (marriages), p 265. Ref: Howard V. Williams in the "Haskell Journal, Journal of the Haskell Family Society" v9, #2, pp558-576.
The youngest son, Mark, on 26 April 1635 was apprenticed by the Overseers of the Poor for Charlton Musgrove to John Whiting, a broadweaver of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, for a period of nine years. The overseers were probably acting "in loco parentis" rather than alleviating a poverty case. There are no disbursements to any Haskell and no record that William's widow or his children ever became a burden to the parish. By custom all orphaned or fatherless children were the responsibility of the parish. At age 14 or older a child was allowed a say in the choice of a guardian (or master in an apprenticeship). Since he was less than 14 when his mother was planning to take the family to New England with John Stone, we do not know if he or his mother was allowed any say in his future or if the overseers, backed by the parish courts, arranged the apprenticeship. The clerics of the parish courts were not likely to be Puritans, or were they likely to look kindly upon emigrants. By April 26th, the date of his apprenticeship, the family may already have embarked for the New World.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 34, Spring 1993
Richard Window, William Haskell and subsequent owners of a 1651 grant of land in the Walker Creek Valley, of West Gloucester, Massachusetts
page 560
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Mark Haskell was baptized 6 April 1621 in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England and died prior to 16:11:1668 in Beverly, MA. He married between 1 September 1658 and 5 June 1663, Hannah (Woodbury) widow of James Patch and daughter of William and Elizabeth (Patch) Woodbury. She was born circa 1620 in South Petherton, Somerset, England and died circa 1703, Ipswich, MA.While we know less about Mark than his brothers, yet the general story told of the others would be more or less true of him. He is spoken of as of "Salem" but this doubtless means "Basse River Side." He appears to have been a mariner and possibly the lack of records about him and the fact that he did not participate in public life is explained by his long trips at sea. He apparently did not arrive in Massachusetts prior to 1644 and the first time his name appeared in print was 30 September 1652, when he appeared in court and was fined for wearing "broad lace." The law at the time stated that "no person whose estate did not exceed £ 200 should wear any great boots, gold or silver lace, buttons, or silk hood, ribbons, or scarves under penalty of 10s." It appears then that Mark had less than £ 200 in assets. In the Salem book of grants on 24 February 1756/57 he petitioned that Jeffrey Massey and Mr Conant should "sets at rights the land that is in difference between him and Richard Haines and have power to issue it." These persons were of "Basse River side." His tax that year was 8s 4d.
Mark died prior to the sixteenth of the eleventh month 1668 when his account was rendered in Salem. The slip of paper on which the probate is written is very hard to read, but we quote in part:
"the holl o estate of mark haskoll debts deducted is 370-8-3 ... Given by the court to the tew children 200-0-0. The eldest to have a dubbell porsion. William being the elldes. The youngest named Mark. Rest to hanah haskall 170-8-3."
The inventory taken on 27 January 1669 by Thomas Lathrop and Richard Brackenbury mentions "money, wearing apparel, musket, two blunder-busses, household furnishing, a house and orchard, domestic animals and a ketch at sea to be appraised on its arrival home." Additional appraisal was rendered later by others. Some of the debts from the estate were to "John Budd of Long Island, Mr Brown of Salem, his daughter-in-law, William Haskell, John Haskell and Thomas Chubb." From the mention of a daughter-in-law it would appear that either he had another son who died before him without issue, or that his wife did, or as was common at the time daughter-in-law could have meant step-daughter. Hannah had one son and two daughters by her first husband James Patch.
Reference
Haskell Journal, Issue 42, Winter 1996
Descendants of Mark Haskell
Page 765
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Sometime between the end of Mark's apprenticeship and 30 Sept 1652, when he was fined by the Salem Court for "wearing broad-lace", he had arrived in Massachusetts and settled in the Basse River section of Salem.