Daniel Haskell was a cordwainer of Gloucester. A cordwainer was a worker in leather, and/or a shoemaker.
Reference
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
Ira J. Haskell
Ellis Printing Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1943
Page 220
Marriage Notes for Patience Haskell and John Roberts
MARRIAGE: According to Gloucester Vital Records, Births: "Patient Haskol married John Roberds at Beverly, 17 March 1720-23 (sic)."
In the name of God Amen, this fourth day of July one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine, I Benj Haskell of Gloucester in ye county of Essex, in ye Province of Massachusetts Bay in New England & being something weak of body but of a sound mind and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die and calling to mind the mortality of my body and thinking it my duty to get my house in order before I die, do make and ordain this is my last will and testament. That is to say first and principally of all I give and recommend my soul into ye hand of God that give it, and my body to ye earth to be decently buried at ye discretion of my executors. Nothing doubting at ye resurrection I shall receive ye same by ye mighty power of God and on touching my earthly estate which God has graciously given me, I dispose of in the following manner.
I give to my beloved wife, Elizabeth one room in my house which she shall choose to live in so long as she shall remain my widow and a cow to be kept for her will run winter and summer and twenty five bushels of corn, one hundred weights of pork and one hundred weights of beef, two barrels of cyder, ten bushels of apples, one bushel and one half of malts, one bushel of potatoes & half ye winter pears, so much of each of these particulars yearly and to have as much good white oak wood or other good wood to her satisfaction yearly as she find needful for one fire during ye time she remains my widow, to be cut and hauled to ye door from my woodland or pasture land and cut up all ye door fit for her said fire and ye use of a horse when she needs. During ye time she remains my widow and four pounds ten shillings to be paid to her out of ye improvements to my estate yearly and privilege in ye cellar for those things she needs to keep there and ye privilege of two beds and bedding and all my pewter brass and iron and all my wooden ware and all my books and a seat in my pew in the meeting house. These during her life and a privilege in ye wells and these things and privileges to be instead of her thirds or in full of her part of my estate.
I give to my eldest daughter Experience Bennett or her kin ye sum of nine pounds lawful money, to be paid to her or her heirs out of my estate by my executors within one year after my decease and this together with what she hath already had shall be in full of her parts or portion out of my estate.
I give to my daughter Prudence Herrick the sum of fifty four pounds six schillings and two pence lawful money, to be paid to her or her heirs out of my estate by my executors within two years after my decease likewise I give to my said daughter and her heirs one seventh part of a saw mill and all ye ... ... of ite which town in ye west parish in Gloucester and al forms of my beds and furniture and one half my pew in ye meeting house in ye west parish in Gloucester after my decease and these together with what she hath already shall be in full of her part or portion out of my estate.
I give to my son in law Andrew Haskell ye sum of five pounds of lawful money also I give to my granddaughter Elizabeth Gott the sum of five pounds lawful money to be paid to them or their heirs of my estate by my executors within three years with what my daughter Elenor Haskell and said son in law Andrew Haskell and Elizabeth Gott had before shall be in full of their part or portion of my estate.
I give to my daughter Patience Davis the sum of twenty pounds fourteen shillings lawful money to be paid to her or her heirs out of my estate by my executors within four years after my decease and this together with what she hath already had shall be in full of her part or portion out of my estate.
I give to my youngest daughter Elizabeth Haskell and to her heirs all my estate and assign all my estate both real and personal either in Gloucester or elsewhere I shall die ... off excepting my wearing apparel which I order to be equally divided by my executors to my three grandsons (viz) Benj Herrick, Benjamin Davis and Benjamin Haskell. Excepting what I have ordered before for my daughter Prudence and ye legacy for her sisters and mothers dowry to be paid out of my estate and funeral charges and all ye rest to my said daughter Elizabeth and assigns forever.
I do constitute my youngest daughter Elizabeth Haskell as Executrix together with her husband William Haskell and Jonathan Bennett as executors to this my last will and testament and receive all my just dues and to pay all my just debts and to give me and my wife decent Christian burial after death.
Note these words and assigns between ye forty eight and forty ninths lines and also these words and appoint between ye seventy seven and seventy eight lines and also ye words after my wives decease between seventy nine and eighty lines were interlinked before signing and sealing confirmation of all and that all above written is my last will and testament. I have set to my hands and seal this fourth day of July one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine and in the thirty third year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George ye second by ye grace of god of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, defender of ye faith.
Signed and sealed by Benjamin Haskell
In presence of
Nathaniel Haskell
Peter Jeffrey
Thomas Jaques
Thomas moved to Falmouth, Maine in 1726. He had a house at what is now the comer of Fore and King Streets.
He was one of those embodied in the First Church of Falmouth in 1727 on the settlement of Rev. Thomas Smith, and was on the committee to layout the land in 1732.
He was a deacon of the church and a selectman of the town.
He later lived near the line of New Marblehead (now Windsor) and in 1743 upon the establishment of the church there, he was formerly dismissed from Falmouth.
His negro servant, Prince, was baptized there on November 11, 1751.
Another description of his location is, "he then went back six miles and took up a tract of land on the north side of the Presumpscott River (opposite Saccarappa).
Reference
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
Ira J. Haskell
Ellis Printing Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1943
Pages 236-237
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During King George's War 1743 1748, Thomas, with his sons, Benjamin, Solomon and William, served in Captain George Berry's company from 18 May to 29 June 1747. Thomas, Benjamin and Solomon served in Captain Daniel Hill's company from 3 September to 30 November 1748. William served another term in Captain Berry's company from 15 December 1747 to 30 November 1748.Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Page 19
Note:
Marion Anderson paid Steven Bailey for reseaech in 1991. Recorded as:
Family records and notes courtesy of Steven D. Bailey, Nevens Manuscript analysis and MiscThe children listed in this research are not the children of Samuel Gookin and Sarah Haskell.
Richard Keith Hascall
Haskell Family Association genealogist
Research conducted in 2019
Hannah Pride died young, most likely before March 1732.
Marriage Notes for Mary Dodge and Deacon Peter Woodbury
MARRIAGE: The town of Essex, Massachusetts, was incorporated in 1819. It was previously a part of the town of Ipswich and was then called Chebacco Parish.