Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)

Notes


3176. Dorothy Haskell

The 1795 birthdate in George Randall's "Genealogy of Roger Haskell" is incorrect.


3178. Dr. Joseph Haskell

Joseph Haskell was a physician.  He served in the War of 1812.

Widow Pension
wo 21525
wc 15180
Bounty Land 43771 160 65
Widow, Susanna, died May 5, 1891
Joseph died September 18, 1873
Joseph was a sargent in Captain Wilder regiment, Massachusetts Infantry. He was drafted June 21, 1814, honorably discharged July 10, 1814.


8107. Elizabeth Morton Haskell

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8119. Charles Hart Rhett

Charles Hart Rhett was a cotton broker.


3184. Charles Thomson Haskell

Request for Pardon
State of S. Carolina
To his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of the United States. The humble petition of Charles T. Haskell, respectively ....
That he is a native citizen of the state aforesaid, residing in Abbeville District, Sixty Three years old, that he did not bear arms in the late rebellion, and participated in it only in sympathy & contributions. That he comes under no one of the Exceptions made by the Amnesty Proclamation of the 29 of May last except the 13th which has reference to the 20 thousand dollars. That he accepts the result of the late contest and is desirious of being restored to all the rights af a loyal citizen of the United States, whose duties he is willing to perform. He therefore prays your Excellency, in the liberal exercise of clemency to grant to him a full & free pardon for his participation in the rebellion with amnesty of his past and complete restoration of all his rights an he will ever pray.
Signed Charles T. Haskell.
Reference: Fold3.com
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Follow on letter
Abbeville Dist. So. Ca.
25 June 1865

To his Excellency
Andrew Johnson
President of the U.S.A.
Sir
Possesing landed property in South Carolina and Arkansas the estimated value of which is over twenty thousand dollars. I am "excepted fron the benefit" of your proclamation dated twenty ninth day of May eighteen hundred and sixty five.
I now, under provision of said proclamation do address to you a "special application for pardon" declaring my readiness to take the oath of allegiance - faithfully, obey the law and sustain the government. I have to add that I am a private citizen having held no public position under either government, that I am over sixty three years of age and have taken no active part in the war.
Trusting that this application will be considered and hoping that I will be restored to the rights and protection of my position as a citizen.
I have the honour to subscribe myself very respectively your obed servant.
signed Charle T. Haskell


Sophia Lovell Cheves

Sophia Lovell Cheves, daughter of Langdon Cheves of Charleston, South Carolina. Langdon Cheves's mother died shortly after his birth, and his father, a Loyalist during the Revolution, fled to his native Scotland after the war leaving Langdon to the care of his uncle." Sophia's mother was Mary Elizabeth Dulles who is descended also from the Heatlys (of Welsh descent) and the Courtonnes (a Huguenot family who fled from France to Holland and thence to Charleston, South Carolina).
Source
Family records and notes courtesy of Preston Hampton Haskell III
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Mrs. Charles Thompson (sic) Haskell (Sophia Langdon Cheves, daughter of Colonel Langdon Cheves) had seven sons in the army around Richmond when I met her at Mrs. Stanards, in one of the several visits she made to tend their wounds. All of them had been privates in the army before the firing on Sumter. She was ever quiet, but genial; hiding what suspense and anguish held her; making unknowing, great history for her state and for all time.
Source
Belles, Beaux, and Brains of the Sixties
By Thomas Cooper De Leon (1839-1914)
Published by G.W. Dillingham Co., New York


8130. Charles Thomson Haskell Jr.

Civil War Confederate Officer. After his service with Company B of the 1st South Carolina Infantry, he transferred to Company D (Calhoun Light Infantry). On the morning of July 10, 1863, he was mortally wounded in action defending Battery Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina. He was commanding a detachment of his command on the peninsula of the island in a forward position away from Battery Wagner in an effort to thwart a Union amphibious assault. With supporting fire from Union monitors, the Union forces were able to flank his position and it is thought that his death occurred at this time.
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Charleston Mercury
July 13, 1863

Even in the midst of our dangers and our preparations for the coming trials we must pause in grief at the loss of some of our best and bravest, who fell early in action of Friday last. Conspicuous amongst these were Captains Langdon Cheves and Charles T. Haskell. [Langdon Cheves was the uncle of Charles Thomson Haskell]

Captain Charles T. Haskell had reached his 28th year. He was a grandson of Langdon Cheves the elder, and also of Major Haskell of Revolutionary fame. After graduating with honor at the Citadel Academy, he became an engineer on the Charleston and Savannah Railroad, and was entrusted with the construction of the trestle work over Rantowles and at the other places on the road. Subsequently he served with distinction as Engineer of the Northeastern Railroad and (under Government employ) in leveeing the Mississippi.

When the war began, he promptly returned to this, his native State, and volunteered. For a long time he acted with great usefulness and success as recruiting officer, but was afterwards appointed Captain and placed in command of a company on Sullivan’s Island, where he was usefully employed in defending the Island and stranded vessels, and in scouting. At the time the attack began, he was just preparing to make a foray within the enemy’s lines; but circumstances having prevented this, he was appointed to the command of three companies at the point where he fell.

Amiable and affectionate in disposition, and endowed, morally and physically, with an indomitable courage he made for himself warm friends wherever he went. He has been cut off in the bloom of youth, at the time when his prospects were most brilliant and promising.


8132. William Thomson Haskell

Civil War Confederate Officer. Company H, or the "Haskell's Rifle Corps" of the 1st Regiment South Carolina Infantry (Greggs) was mustered into Confederate service in September of 1861.

William Thomson Haskell, a demanding disciplinarian, was the recruiter of these volunteers who amassed to defend the southern cause. Consequently, upon the organization of the company, he was commissioned a captain with authority to command the company he founded. His sternness did not go over well with the new recruits, however, in time the enlisted men became endeared to him.

One of these men remembered that Haskell was "the most thorough, yet the most discriminating disciplinarian, on the drill ground he was infallibly accurate, on the march he was indefatigable, in battle he was the very spirit of gallantry and self-possession."

His untimely end came on July 2, 1863 during the battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There on that day, he was leading his command when he was killed-in-action. With his death, the "brigade mourn his loss more than that of any man who [had] ever fallen in it."
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Charleston Mercury
July 23, 1863

William T. Haskell obtained his education at the Virginia University, and was prosecuting the study of law when the war broke out. He joined the Company raised by Captain, afterwards Colonel Perrin, and not expecting the length and bitterness of the strife, he sought no commission, but with exemplary alacrity did the duty did the duty of a private in Colonel Gregg's Regiment –  first in Perrin's Company near Charleston, and afterwards in Miller's Company in Virginia. When that regiment was disbanded, after the expiration of his term of service, he was, at the special desire of Colonel Gregg, appointed Captain, and having raised a company, joined the Regiment again upon its re-organization.

He passed through the battles before Richmond, 2d Manassas, Ox Hill, Sharpsburg, Botteler's Ford, Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville without receiving a scratch, although his cap and clothes were frequently cut with bullets. After he entered into service he never lost a day from sickness or other cause, and never asked a furlough, although once he was at home for a few days, when ordered back to duty. In battle, as in all his speech and conduct, he was cool and deliberate, but so unflinchingly firm that more than once he held his company under fire when others retired.

The most of two sets of noble lieutenants had fallen by his side –  his company had been reduced to a handful and in preparation for the movement into Pennsylvania, he was placed at the head of the battalion of sharpshooters of his brigade. Of the particulars of his last battle we know nothing, but we doubt not that in that, as in preceding ones, he exhibited the high qualities which characterized him. No officer was more kind and just to his men –  none enjoyed a higher degree their affectionate attachment and ready obedience. He indeed was the model of a soldier.


William T. Haskell obtained his education at the Virginia University, and was prosecuting the study of law when the war broke out. He joined the Company raised by Captain, afterwards Colonel Perrin, and not expecting the length and bitterness of the strife, he sought no commission, but with exemplary alacrity did the duty did the duty of a private in Colonel Gregg's Regiment


8147. Rev. John Bachman Haskell

Patent 230274 - John B. Haskell - Combined Cookin Can and Dinner Pail


8159. John Grimke Rhett

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Grimke Rhett
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: South Carolina
Regiment Name: 1 (McCreary's) South Carolina Infantry
Company: F&S
Rank In: Bvt. Second Lieutenant
Rank Out Expanded: Second Lieutenant
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Charleston Mercury
July 8, 1862
A letter from a private in the Carolina Light Infantry to his mother, reported that Lieutenant Grimke Rhett was killed in battle on June 27.
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Charleston Mercury
July 19, 1862
Lieutenant Grimke Rhett also was killed, being pierced through the head by a Minnie ball. A graduate of the South Carolina College with high honors - a lawyer by profession - he entered the service at the beginning of the war. As a soldier he is said to have been one of the most intelligent, active, prompt and efficient in the command.


8160. Julius Moore Rhett

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: Julius M. Rhett
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: South Carolina
Regiment Name: 1 South Carolina Artillery
Company: C
Rank In: Second Lieutenant
Rank Out: Captain
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State
March 16, 1895

Charleston, March 15. - Captain Julius M. Rhett, a gentleman farmer of Montmorenci, near Aiken, S.C., was killed today by Mr. Marion Toole. The two men's farm adjoined, and there had been bad blood between them for years, but the immediate cause of the quarrel was a drain which belonged to Rhett and which Toole obstructed. Rhett directed his foreman to remove the obstruction, and therefore Toole shot him dead.


8163. William Haskell Rhett

U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
Name: W.H. Rhett
Side: Confederate
Regiment State/Origin: South Carolina
Regiment Name: Battalion State Cadets, South Carolina Local Defense Troops, Charleston, S.C.
Company: A
Rank In: Private
Rank Out: Private
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State
June 19, 1909
Charleston, June 18, - Information has been received of the death of William Haskell Rhett of Hendersonville, N.C. He comes of the well-known Charleston family. He was formerly the agent here of the Ocean Steamship company and also of the Central Railroad of Georgia. He was in failing health for some time. He is survived by a widow, having married for the second time a few years ago.
Interment is in St. Peter's churchyard.


Eliza Cleveland Hastie

New York Herald
September 21, 1889
Rhett. -  At Morristown, N. J. on 19th inst., Eliza Hastie, daughter of the late William S. and Caroline Franklin Hastie and wife of W. Haskell Rhett, of New York.