A personal narrative of Edward Wilder Haskell, Jr.
Haskell Journal, Issue 1, 1898Edwards grandfathers Prince Haskell and Timothy Newton were captured by the Indians at the time Royaltown was burned. Timothy Newton escaped, Prince Haskell was exchanged after ?.
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Revolutionary War pension file, Prince and Leah Wilder Haskell file 7651Enlisted May 1, 1775, Worcester county, Mass., Capt. Hazelton's company as a drummer, Col. Fellows' regiment, of the Mass. troops for eight months.
Stationed at Roxburg until after the battle of Bunker Hill, then to Dorchester, served to Jan. 1776, requested to serve 1 added month and agreed.. Returned home.
In 1776 answered call for 4 months to march to Ticonderoga, serving in place of Deacon Paige, served as drummer until December, then returned home.
In August 1777, at the alarm of Bennington battle, Capt. Timothy Paige of Hardwick called for volunteers on horseback to Bennington. He went and returned to Hardwick, recieved 10 days pay., Immediately there was a call to go west to stop the British from going down North River, enlisted for 3 months as drummer, Capt. Crawford's company, Col Cushing's regiment. He was present to see General NBurgoyne surrender at Saratoga.
Family bible included in pension file
Per family bible, Prince and Leah arrived in Barnard, Vermont February 11, 1785
Nathaniel and Hettie had no children.
Polly Haskell was unmarried.
Note: Some genealogical records show George and Comfort (Knowlton) Haskell born and living in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. Other records show Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Hardwick and Greenwich were neighboring towns. Land, previously part of Hardwick, was transferred to Greenwich in 1765. Greenwich no longer exists, being submerged by the development of the Quabbin Reservoir in 1938.
Note: Some genealogical records show George and Comfort (Knowlton) Haskell born and living in Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. Other records show Greenwich, Hampshire, Massachusetts. Hardwick and Greenwich were neighboring towns. Land, previously part of Hardwick, was transferred to Greenwich in 1765. Greenwich no longer exists, being submerged by the development of the Quabbin Reservoir in 1938.
Bela B. Haskell died young.
Nathaniel was on a descriptive list of men raised to reinforce the Continental Army for the term of 6 months, agreeable to resolve of 5 June 1780; returned as received of Justin Ely, Commissioner, by Brigadier General J. Glover, at Springfield 7 July 1780; Nathaniel, aged 18 years stature, 5ft-8in, complexion, light. He was engaged for the town of Hardwick; marched to camp 7 July 1780 under command of Captain Dix. He was discharged Dec. 23, 1780; service, 6 months and 4 days, in state of New York Including 9 days (180 miles) travel home.Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Pages 54, 59
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Revoltionary War Pension File
Application # 23252, October 9, 1832
Resident of Brookfield, Madison, New York
Born July 25, 1762, Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts
Enlisted April 1778 for 3 months, Captain Whipple
Enlisted Fall 1778 for 1 month
Enlisted June 1780 fo 6 monts, Captain Benjamin Warren
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Probate file, Madison county, New York, Nataniel Haskell, file 1023
executrix, Mary Haskell, wife
survivor, Nathaniel Haskell, Jr.
William Stacy Haskell
Thirteen years after marriage to Rebecca Marsh they left for Fremont, Ohio but being threatened by Indians they continued on to Fairport where they settled, subsequently living in Mentor.
Reference
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
Ira J. Haskell
Ellis Printing Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1943
Page 101
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Jesse Haskell and Rebeckah Marsh were born at Brookfield, Madison county, NY...On July 11, 1811, they started for Ohio and arrived at what is now Freemont on Sandusky Bay July 19, 1811. Just before the War of 1812 the Indians were so threatening that they were forced to move and settled first at Fairport and later at Mentor.
Reference
Haskell Family Notes written by Virginia Root while researching the family in Mentor, Ohio. No references given.
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Jesse Haskell lived for a time at Sacketts Harbor, New York, while there building a boat in which he and his family sailed across Lake Ontario, from there hiring a team to take the boat, household goods, and family to Lake Erie. He intended to locate at the mouth of Raisin River, but the savages proved very hostile, one Indian saying, "Three moons we kill all white folks," so he continued his journey down the lake to Grand River landing at Fairport in 1812. A sound of heavy thunder was heard and a black cloud apparently overhung them, but the noise, however, and the cloud proved to be the sound and smoke of that famous battle in which the gallant Commodore Perry won his great victory, the scene of the conflict being sixty miles away.Subsequently locating in Lake County, Jesse Haskell, who had a land warrant, settled in Kirtland, but soon found that he had taken possession of the wrong tract of land. He then settled at Skinner's Landing in Grand River, on the property now occupied by U. S. Breed, it being a mile north of Painesville. He cleared a farm from the forest, and lived there until his death at a good old age.
Reference
History of the Western Reserve, Volume III
By, Harriet Taylor Upton
The Lewis Publishing Company, 1910
Page 1673
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Based on will, Court of Common Pleas, County of Geauga, State of Ohio, Book A., pp 163, 174, 175, 236, 237.
Appointed administrators Sabe Bronson and Sebastian Adams on 4 Nov 1817. 3 March 1818 presented appraisers report. 2 Nov 1819 final accounting. Includes articles belonging to the estate set off to the widow for the maintenance and support of herself and children one year as per receipt of Rebecca Haskill.
Marriage Notes for Paul Haskell and Sally Carter
MARRIAGE: Marriage intentions are listed for different dates in the Vital Records of Brookfield and Hardwick. Where the marriage took place is not certain from the available records.
Abigail Haskell was unmarried.
Simeon was a farmer and a blacksmith. He lived in North Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1793 to 1804 and then went to Oakham, Worcester, Massachusetts, where both he and his sons were active in town affairs.
Silas Haskell lived in North Brookfield, Worcester county, MA where he operated a farm and taught school for 23 years.
Sarah Bond Haskell was unmarried.
Disappeared on a trip to Cuba.