Attests to deed of sale at Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, 27 Jun 1816 (Leon Lalanne, Notary)
Calvin Moulton was a farmer
Original pewholder at St James Protestant Episcopal church, 1822, Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. (Church floor plan from church archives; p. 7, Parish Anecdotes, St. James Church 1822-1845, St. George's Church 1845-1904, Bishop's University Old Library, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)
Benjamin Haskell was a farmer and laborer
Purchased Lots 7 and 8, Range 7, Ascot Twp, Quebec, Canada, from Benjamin Stone of the same place, for $280, 19 Aug 1812 (Leon Lalanne, Notary)
Purchased W pt. Lot 8, Range 7, E of saw mill and brook, 13.5 acres; E end of Lot 8, Range 8, 11.5 acres; from Nathaniel Kendall for 18 pounds, 15 shillings: 05 Jun 1820 (Leon Lalanne, Notary)
Layout of a Kings Highway in Ascot [Haskell Hill road], 12 Jul 1830: ..."thence in a direct a line as practable across lot No. 8 in the said 7th Range to the dwelling House of Benjamin Haskell"... File 83-209: Ascot Twp Roads, 1830-1965, No. 43 [The unimproved road existed prior to this time.]
John Haskell was a farmer and laborer.
National Archives of Canada, Manuscript Division, Lower Canada Land Petitions and Records: RG 1, L3L: Vol. 103, pp. 50772-50773
Quebec and Lower Canada Land Petitions: John Haskell, 1820, Vol 103, C-2532, Vol 122, C-2540: Sale of Crown Reserve land.
Lot 9, Range 7, 200 acres, for 21 years; first 7 years annual payment of 25 shillings or 8 bushels of wheat; 2nd 7 years payment of 50 shillings or 16 bushels of wheat; third 7 years, payment of 75 shillings or 24 bushels of wheat; to be paid to the Sheriff of the District of Three Rivers at the town of Three Rivers yearly by the first of January and July in equal parts. 30 Nov 1820.
Layout of a Kings Highway in Ascot [Haskell Hill road], 12 Jul 1830: ..."thence upon upon lot No. 9 in the 7th Range passing between the Dwelling house and Barn of John Haskell"... File 83-209: Ascot Twp Roads, 1830-1965, No. 43 [The unimproved road existed prior to this time.]
Abigail Haskell was unmarried.
Harriet Haskell was unmarried.
John Springer was a shoemaker
Sylvester Haskell was unmarried.
John Bradley Haskell was unmarried.
John Bradley Haskell was a shoemaker
Rebecca Haskell was unmarried.
Hiram Adolphus Cutting Doctor (Md & Ph.D)
Hiram Cutting was a physician.
Dr. Hiram CUTTING is a native of Concord, Vt where he was born in 1832. His father, Stephen C. Cutting, son of Oliver Cutting, was one of the first settlers of the town. His ancestry is prominent in Revolutionary war battles. Hiram was educated in the district schools, Essex county grammar and St. Johnsbury Academy. He became a teacher at age sixteen, beginning with a school of forty-five scholars, more than half older than he. This school was called the best in the county. Due to ill health he resigned teaching and entered the mercantile business. His business flourished. In July 1866 a fire destroyed not only the business but also his scientific library of about 1,000 volumes, and a cabinet of more than 25,000 specimens. New buildings were built and contained an observatory. He was a member of the Smithsonian corps of observers for many years. Such was his scientific leanings. He married Maranda E. Haskell of Lennoxville, C.E., February 3, 1856. She died on March 3, 1886 aged fifty-four years. Their union was childless. He has however, adopted a son.
Source: Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, VT; 1764-1887, by Hamilton Child, May, 1887, page 470.
Sewell Haskell was a carpenter, joiner, millwright, and farmer.
He built schoolhouses for the British American Land Company in Scotstown and other locations in the Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada.
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Joined Masonic Lodge, Victoria No. 11, 1819, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Purchased pt. Lot 11, Range 6, Ascot Twp, Quebec, Canada, 25 acres, from Hezekiah Hancock, 02 Aug 1819 (Daniel Thomas, Notary). Sells this land to to Tyler H. Moore for 100 pounds, 30 Apr 1825 (No. 596, William Ritchie, Notary)Purchased pt. Lot 18, Range 7, [Sherbrooke] Ascot Twp, Quebec, Canada, 4 acres, W. side of highway, from W. B. Felton for 5 shillings with 100 pound mortgage to C. T. Goodhue, 30 Apr 1825 (No. 595, William Ritchie, Notary)
Resided on Wellington St. in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada in 1826. (The highway mentioned above.)
Sewell Haskell, one of six men that accepted a donation of 2 acres, pt. Lot 11, Range 6, along the highway from Lennoxville to Compton, for a Protestant Episcopal church, from E. Elliott and W. Hunting, 08 Jan 1822. (Daniel Thomas, Notary) This became St James Protestant Episcopal church and cemetery in Lennoxville.
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Original pewholder at St James Protestant Episcopal church, 1822, Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. (Church floor plan from church archives; p. 7, Parish Anecdotes, St. James Church 1822-1845, St. George's Church 1845-1904, Bishop's University Old Library, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)
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Superior Court, District of St. Francis, Quebec, Canada, Vol. 1: 1823-1834: Signatory to the following actions:14 Jun 1826: (Sewell Haskell with David Moe) appointing Curator of the Estate of Gilbert Hyatt and Anna Canfield, and appointing tutor and subtutor for the three sons of Gilbert Hyatt.
08 Oct 1827: (Sewell Haskell with Benjamin Haskell) appointing tutor and tutrix for Ephraim and Harriet Hancock, nephew and niece of Ezekiel Elliott, children of Hezekiah Hancock of Ascot.
05 Apr 1828: (Sewell Haskell, carpenter, of Sherbrooke) petition of Susanna James, widow, appointing Curator for the estate of John James, and tutor and subtutor for his minor children.
31 Jan 1833: (Sewell Haskell) appointing Curator for the estate of William Hunting, tutor and tutrix of minor children.
18 May 1833: (Sewell Haskell, village of Sherbrooke, carpenter, with Benjamin Haskell, Ascot, yeoman) appointing tutor and subtutor for Ephraim and Harriet Hancock, since their tutor William Hunting had died.
02 Oct 1827: (Sewell Haskell with Benjamin Haskell) appointing tutor for William Hunting, since tutrix Betsey Hancock had died.
Vol. 3: 1841-1847:02 Jun 1842: (Sewell Haskell) appointing tutors for children of Thomas Hughes: Eleanor, age 12 years; Mary Elizabeth, age 9 years, 3 months; Margaret, age 6 years, 2 months; Thomas, age 9 months. Court appointed Thomas Sleeper [maternal uncle].
13 Feb 1844: (Sewell Haskell) appointing tutor and tutrix of children of Hiram Abiff Amsden.
Purchased 40 acres in Beaver Dam Twp, Dodge, Wisconsin, from the U.S. Government Land Office at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 27 Aug 1846 for $50; patented 01 Feb 1848: The NW quarter of the SW quarter of Section 21, Township 12, Range 14. (This land currently crosses part of Wisconsin State Road 33 and McKinley Beach Road, generally northwest of their intersection, with the south portion being in the current city limits of Beaver Dam. Beaver Dam Lake is a quarter mile to the west. The northwest portion is part of a golf course. The homestead was probably in the northeast or southeast corner of the parcel, near Highway 33, which road appears on an 1860 township parcel map.) Another purchase of 80 acres in Section 23, Township 12, Range 14, on 25 Aug 1847 was not patented. GLO, Vol. 41
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The Dodge County Citizen (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin),
January 18, 1877:DIED. HASKELL - Sunday, Jan. 14th, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. G. Shaw, in the town of Fort Winnebago, Columbia Co., Wis., SEWELL HASKELL, in the 87th year of his age.
The deceased will be well remembered by old residents, as he moved to Beaver Dam with his family, in June 1847, and has resided in the state ever since, with the exception of about one year's residence in Iowa.
He was born in Chesterfield, N. H., Sept. 9th, 1790. Before becoming of age, he went to Malone, N. Y., where he learned his trade, that of carpenter and joiner. At the age of 24, he moved to Sherbrooke, Canada, at which place he resided until May 21st, 1847, when he started for Wisconsin; a son and daughter having taken up their residence here a year or so before, prompted him to move hither with the rest of his family.
Dec. 28 [sic] 1821, he married Miss Mary Moe, who provided a faithful and prudent helpmate, a devoted wife and mother, which whom he lived happily until 1856, when she died. There was born to him five children, 2 sons and 3 daughters, one of the daughters dying in infancy; four survive him - Wm. S. Haskell, in Helena, Montana, H. M. Haskell, in Maryland, Mrs. M. R. Manchester, of Biggs Station, Cal., and Mrs. Geo. G. Shaw, of Fort Winnebago, about five miles from Portage, besides Thos. Hughes, of this paper, who is his adopted son. Since the death of his wife, he has made his home, with the exception of about three years, with his daughter Mary, Mrs. Geo. G. Shaw.
He was made a Free and accepted Mason, in 1819, at least 57 years ago, and was, therefore, one of the oldest Masons in the state. His attachment to the order remained unabated to the last, one great consolation in his last illness being the recognition of a Master Mason.
In his case, the attaining of the age of nearly four score years and ten, is remarkable, as at the age of 30, he was supposed to be afflicted with consumption, and has suffered very much with various ailments and accidents since then, was a hard working man, and the tender and solicitous care he has received in his old age, can alone account for it. He was taken to bed from his final illness, on Thursday, Jan 4th, and died of old age, superinduced by dysentery, on the 14th inst., rational and uncomplaining to the last. He was a public spirited man, generous to a fault, and in all relations and circumstances, candid and outspoken. True to his friends and acquaintances, none will miss his council, fraternal regard and companionship, more than his surviving relatives, who, while deploring his demise, can but submit to "Him who doeth all things well."
The Republican and Sentinel (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin)
April 15, 1856:DIED. In this city, on Sunday the 6th inst., of consumption, Mrs. POLLY, wife of Sewell Haskell, aged 54 years - formerly of Sherbrooke, Canada East.
Thomas Hughes, an orphan, was "adopted" and taken to Wisconsin by Sewell and Mary Haskell.
02 Jun 1842, Thomas Hughes, age 9 months, was assigned a tutor [guardian], who was his maternal uncle, Thomas Sleeper, with Sewell Haskell as signatory, Superior Court, District of St Francis, at Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Thomas Hughes was a printer, editor, and publisher; and postmaster of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.
Hubbell, Homer Bishop, Dodge County, Wisconsin: Past and Present. Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1913.
p.202THE DODGE COUNTY CITIZEN
"It was purchased by Shaw and Hughes, who issued a paper on Oct. 8, 1862, and continued its publication until Oct. 29, when it was published by Reid & Hughes. Oct. 22, 1868, Mr. Reid retired and Mr. Hughes was its sole owner until October 14, 1869, when S. B. Allen purchased a half interest. In 1872 the Citizen was enlarged to an eight-column folio. Mr. Hughes purchased Mr. Allen's interest in the paper October 5, 1876, and was its editor until Apr. 1, 1898, when he was appointed postmaster of Beaver Dam. He put the management and editorship of the paper in the hands of E. E. Parker, which position he occupied until Jan. 1, 1909, when he was appointed assistant postmaster under Mr. Hughes. Frank W. Jillson was manager and editor of the Citizen from Jan. 1, 1909, until Feb. 28, 1910. Mr. Hughes sold the Citizen to E. E. Parker & Son, February 28, 1910."
p. 264: "Thos. Hughes joined Old Settlers Club Mar. 1875."
p. 323. "Thos. Hughes of Pioneer Club arrived 1847."
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Postmaster of Beaver Dam, 3 Mar 1899 to 11 Feb 1912
David Abbott Parker was a carpenter and farmer
David Abbott Parker of Ascot Twp purchased 200 acres, Lot 11, Range 9, Ascot Twp, from Francis Wilcox of Ascot Twp, for $200, on 22 Feb 1815 (Leon Lalanne, Notary)
David A. Parker of Hatley Twp purchased 100 acres in Lot 8, Range 8, Ascot Twp, from Asa Alger Jr. of Ascot Twp for 8 pounds, on 15 Mar 1825 (William Ritchie, Notary)
Original pewholder at St James Protestant Episcopal church, 1822, Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. (Church floor plan from church archives; p. 7, Parish Anecdotes, St. James Church 1822-1845, St. George's Church 1845-1904, Bishop's University Old Library, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)
Benjamin Parker was a farmer, sawyer and saw mill owner.
Edmund Heard was a farmer.
The following are extracts from an article that appeared in the Lewiston Journal on the day of Mr. Bray's death, Jan. 29, 1890:
"Israel R. Bray, the great Franklin County wool merchant, died this morning, aged 82 years. He was the richest man in the county and one of the richest in rural Maine. He made the most of his money in buying and selling wool, of which he hand-led greater quantities in his lifetime than any other man in the state. He rode thousands of miles every year, buying of the farmers from barn to barn, himself, and having many agents in the field; keeping up this strenuous work notwithstanding his great age and unwieldy proportions, until his last illness of a few weeks: As he always had the means to pay cash and enjoyed the confidence of the farmers, he could buy on the most favorable terms. Of large frame and swelling proportions, Mr. Bray weighed over 250 pounds. He dressed more like a poor man than a wealthy trader. He cared nothing for appearance and where he was not known was often taken for a tramp."
"Frequently he used to carry about with him thousands of dollars loose in a hand satchel or in his pockets. He was an unusually brainy man, a vigorous thinker and speaker, quaint and original in these as in all his habits. Indeed, had he chosen to enter public life he might have made his mark as an orator - as those who have heard him speak when excited will admit. He bad a sonorous voice, a quick wit and sometimes delivered himself of saying's worthy of Bob Ingersoll.
"A great interest in politics was always taken by Mr. Bray, although he did not seek office, and he was a power in Franklin County. He was a remarkable man, keen and far-sighted in business matters. He was a thoroughly honest man and despised a cheat more than aught else under the sun. He has been known all over Maine - New England, in fact - as a very large owner of sheep and buyer of wool. "