Josiah, of Templeton or Petersham, was in Captain Joel Fletcher's company, Colonel Ephraim Doolittle's regiment; receipt for advance pay, signed by said Haskell and others, dated Camp near Charlestown Road June 8, 1875; also order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Winter Hill, December 25, 1775.
Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Page 71
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Revolutionary War pension file 652, Josiah and Rebecca Edes Haskell
Josiah is the son of Stephen born in 1755 at Harvard, Worcester, Massachusetts.He volunteered May 1, 1775, 8 months, Captain John Fletcher's company, Colonel Doliitlle, Massachusetts regiment, marched to Cambridge, after 5 1/2 months discharged due to sickness.
He enlisted January 1, 1778, Captain John Morgan's company, served six months with state troops as a guard of military stores in Springfield Massachusetts.
He enlisted July 1778 at Templeton as a substitute for his father, engaged for 6 weeks, ordered to Rhode Island under command of General Sullivan., acting as attendant to horses of Artillery Company.
He died Feb 28, 1842 or 1843 at Templeton.
He married Feb 18, 1818 at Boston, Mass., Rebecca Ides.
Rebecca was 75 in 1855.
Brother Joseph was 79 in 1832.
Meigs County Telegraph
August 21, 1860In Rutland, O., on Tuesday, August 14th, 1860, Mrs. Susanna Larkin, in the 90th year of her age.
She was born in Nova Scotia, March 19th, 1771 -- was principally raised in Massachusetts, but went to Rutland, Vermont, while a young woman, and was there married to Abel Larkin, where they lived till they moved to Leading Creek, in Ohio, where they arrived in June, 1804, and on the farm where she died in March, 1808[sic] . In February, 1830, Mr. Larkin died leaving her a widow for more than 30 years.
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Abel Larkin, son of Matthias Larkin, was born in Lancaster, Worcester county, Massachusetts, August 29th, 1764, and married Susannah Bridges [= Bridge] in 1794, in Rutland, Vermont. She was born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. Her father, Mr. Bridges, was a surveyor, but started to Massachusetts on a vessel to prepare a place for his family, and the vessel never returned, nor was heard from after sailing. Her mother was a Haskell, and went to Massachusetts with her family, where she died.Source: The Pioneer History of Meigs County. Columbus, Ohio.
Lakin, Stillman Carter. 1908; Copyright by George Larking. Second author Emeline Larkin Bicknell, Reviser of the MSS. of S. C. Larkin"
Pages 49-50.
John Haskell was a school master.
The deaths of John and Mary (Haskell) Gates was probably due to a cholera and yellow fever epidemic.
Ebenezer and Mary Gates had no children.
Cambridge Chronicle
Volume XII, Number 43, 24 October 1857In this city, Mrs. Tamsin Haskell, relict of the late John Haskell, of Lancaster, Mass., 78 years 7 months.
Jacob Haskell was a farmer.
Marriage Notes for Jacob Haskell and Sarah Preston Howe
MARRIAGE: It is possible that this marriage was to a different Jacob Haskell.
Harriet Haskell was unmarried.