Charles Whipple Haskell was unmarried.
Albert Slack Haskell was unmarried.
Haskell Journal
Issue 24
Fall 1989
Some descendants of James and Joshua Haskell of Tennessee and Kentucky
Contributed by William Earl Haskell
Joshua migrated to Tennesse shortly before the War of 1812 in which he served as a lieutenant and forage master in Coffee's Regiment of Cavalry and Mounted Gunmen. He was living in Murphreesboro, TN in 1820. The following year when the Circuit Court of Madison County was established, his commission was issued 14 November 1821 and held his first court session 14 April 1822. He lived on Haskell Hill in the town of Jackson and was by all accounts, an interesting character.
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Newsletter of the Haskell Family Society
Volume 8, No. 1, March 1999FRONTIER JUSTICE AND THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE JOSHUA HASKELL
The eighth impeachment in the history of the State of Tennessee was against Judge Joshua Haskell. It began in the year 1829 and ended in 1831.
Joshua Haskell was born 9 April 1786 in faraway Providence, Rhode Island, son of Samuel and Mary "Polly" (Turner) Haskell of Gloucester and Wrentham, Massachusetts, later of Rhode Island. Joshua studied law and migrated to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1811. At the outbreak of the Creek Indian War in 1813, at age 27, he volunteered for the army and served with honour in General Coffee's Brigade of Cavalry and Mounted Gunmen.
In 1811 Indian Chief Tecumseh had sought the support of the Creek Indians for his confederacy, leading to uprisings against white settlements in Alabama. War began when the Indians attacked Fort Mims on the banks of the Alabama River, about 35 miles north of Mobile. They massacred 250 of the 550 persons in the fort and many others were burned to death. When the news reached Nashville, Major General Andrew Jackson of the Tennessee Militia issued a call for 2000 volunteers. Although units formed in Georgia and Mississippi as well, the Tennesseans fought all major engagements and Tennessee became, and is still, known as the "Volunteer State."
Both sides suffered heavy losses until the spring of 1814 when an attack by the combined forces of Generals Jackson and Coffee brought the Indians to defeat. On 9 August 1814 the Treaty of Fort Jackson, signed by both parties, ceded two-thirds of the Creeks land to the U. S.
After Joshua Haskell was mustered out of service, he returned to Murfreesboro and his law practice. He became a well-respected lawyer and a popular man in the community, numbering such influential frontiersmen as Daniel Boone (1734-1820) and Davey Crockett (1786-1836) among his friends. In 1821 Lawyer Haskell was appointed judge of the newly created Eighth Circuit Court in Madison County and moved to Jackson to assume this new responsibility. He very soon earned a reputation as the "judge who got things done", trying on one occasion forty cases in seven days before taking a half day's respite. Indeed, on 10 December 1821 the Jackson newspaper, Southern Statesman, described him as one who dispatched much business, in a manner reflecting the highest degree of credit to "his honour, Judge Haskell, in his promptitude and the ability with which he discharges the duties of the bench."
In 1829 all friends of the judge, in legal circles as well as in other walks of life, were shocked to learn that Judge Joshua Haskell faced impeachment by the lower house of the Tennessee State Legislature. Due to persistent rumours that Judge Haskell had been particularly neglectful, careless and undignified in the performance of his official duties, on 2 December 1829 a Mr. Overton introduced a resolution calling for an inquiry into his official conduct.
The resolution was adopted without the formality of a roll call, and eleven members, an unusually large number from a legislative body of only forty, were appointed to conduct the investigation. On 9 December 1829 the committee reported that, in its opinion, derived from testimony taken by the committee, "Joshua Haskell has so acted in his judicial capacity as to require the interposition of the constitutional powers of this House." The full House agreed with the committee's recommendation and on the following day notified the Senate of its decision.
On 24 December 1829 the Senate resolved itself into a court for impeachment, as was the Tennessee practice. Two articles were exhibited, in brief alleging:
I. That Haskell has been negligent in his official duties in that he has failed faithfully to hear, superintend and attend to the taking of testimony in judicial trials, and that he has habitually deserted the bench, leaving the trial to proceed without the directing aid of a judge, to the great damage of justice within his district; and specific allegations of this charge are set forth in the· following eleven separate specification
(There followed eleven instances of alleged neglect and negligence between 16 April 1828 and 15 May 1829 in trials for four murders, horse stealing, perjury, theft, slave stealing, and counterfeiting.)
II, That he negligently and illegally omitted, failed and refused to have and to hear read in open court the minutes of courts in which he has presided as judge, signed them as records of said courts, without having and hearing them read, and without knowing whether they were true or false.
(Two instances, one each in 1828 and 1829, were cited to support Article II.)
Attorney Pleasant M. Miller ably defended Judge Haskell, and numerous prominent men from his home town of Jackson, Tennessee, as well as elsewhere, concurred in finding him in all his social relations humane, kind, generous, hospitable and, in the language of Governor Carroll, "possessing some of the finest feelings of the human heart."
It was not a question of honour and character, however, but of whether the judge had the right to leave the courtroom for various reasons during a term of court, according to some witnesses for up to two hours. Most witnesses agreed the judge left the bench when perhaps he should not have done so, but could not agree on how long or how far away he was, nor for what purpose. One testified the judge once went to look at a horse, another that he had been seen at a stall selling cakes and cider. One said he had gone to eat a watermelon in the yard, adding that the house where court was held was very uncomfortable, as when court was not in session, it was occupied by hogs and therefore infested with fleas!
In one of the shortest answers to an impeachment on record Judge Haskell declared himself innocent of any impeachable offence. In just 200 words he denied generally and specifically the accuracy of all allegations against him.
The Senate acquitted Judge Haskell by a very close margin, with nearly tied votes on three specifications. However, the judge was embarrassed and afterwards paid very close attention- to the dignity and proprieties of his office. That he served justice efficiently in his later years was shown by the great respect and goodwill the people of his district demonstrated when he retired in 1835. The Nashville Union saw fit to quote from the Jackson Truth Teller that "his friends considered Judge Joshua Haskell had through his ability, philanthropy, hospitality and other admirable qualities rendered himself worthy of their highest confidence and warmest affections."
Joshua Haskell married Nancy Ready in 1813 and they had eight children.
The town of Haskell and Haskell County in Texas were named for Charles Ready Haskell. Charles was killed by Mexican soldiers in the Goliad Massacre at Goliad, Texas, on 27 March 1836.
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Haskell Journal
Issue 24
Fall 1989
Some descendants of James and Joshua Haskell of Tennessee and Kentucky
Contributed by William Earl HaskellCharles was still attending school, at seventeen, when news of the revolt in the Mexican province of Texas came. He joined a group of others from Tennessee and went to Nacogdoches and enlisted on 18 February 1836. He first served in Capt. B. L. Lawrence's Company and later joined Capt. Burr H. Duval's Company under the command of Col. James Walker Fannin. He fought in the battle of Coleto on 19-20 March 1836. After surrendering to the Mexican Army he was killed at the Goliad Massacre on 27 March 1836.
The following notes from Ancestry.com:
The Wright Family Project.
Compiled by Thomas Wright.In early manhood he engaged in the manufacture of nails, and later settled on a tract of sixty-five acres of land, known as the Nicholas Brown place, now owned by Judge Feeley, of Woonsocket. He was industrious and successful, and devoted most of his life to agriculture. The town owed him much for faithful and conscientious public service, acting long as a member of the town council, being several years president of the board. He also represented the town in the general assembly, and was always ready to devote time and influence to anything calculated to promote the general welfare. He was a director of the Cumberland Bank, which was founded in 1823, and other financial institutions, and his advice in business matters was often sought.
Was educated in the district schools of his native town, working on the homestead farm as soon as he was old enough, during vacation periods. At the age of eighteen years he began an apprenticeship to the trade of machinist in the shops of Ebenezer and Joseph Metcalf, of Cumberland. In 1840 he went to Woonsocket, where he continued at the same trade, and a year later to Fall River, where he continued as a journeyman until 1845. He then went to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where he formed a partnership with Nathaniel S. Collyer in conducting a machine shop. In 1850 he became a member of the firm of Pinkham, Haskell & Company, manufacturers of bolts and screws, and seven years later became the sole owner of the plant. From 1861 to 1868 Robert Sherman had an interest in the business, by purchase from Mr. Haskell, which the latter repurchased. The business was incorporated in 1881, with Mr. Haskell as president, under the title of the William H. Haskell Company, and in 1898 the concern absorbed the Pawtucket Nut Company, whose business was removed to the Haskell plant, on Main street. At this time the style of the corporation was changed to William H. Haskell Manufacturing Company. Mr. Haskell continued as president until his death, which occurred at his home in Pawtucket, April 19, 1900. His body was deposited in Oak Grove Cemetery, at that place. For many years he was president of the board of trustees of the Park Place Universalist Church. At one time he was vice-president of the Pacific National Bank, and at the time of his death he was a director of the Pawtucket branch of the Industrial Trust Company.
Ruth A. Haskell was unmarried.
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Ruth A. Haskell, daughter of W. Turner Haskell was born September 9, 1832, on the paternal farm in Cumberland, where she attended the public schools for some time, was later a student at the Friends' school in Providence, and the Normal School of the same city, which was a private institution at that time. She attended Professor Russell's school of Merrimack, New Hampshire, and afterwards engaged in teaching, her first school being in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Later she taught in Cumberland and the public schools of Providence. After the close of the Civil War, she opened a private school, known as "The Miss Haskell School," which she conducted successfully for many years. She is now retired from the profession and resides in Providence, where she takes an active interest in social and religious work. She is an active member of the Rhode Island Woman's Club, and a member of the Congregational church, in which she has, taught in Sunday school for upwards of half a century. She is a woman of keen intelligence, and has contributed much to the uplifting influences of city life.
Reference
New England Families Genealogical and Memorial Volume 1
By William Richard Cutter
Lewis Historical Publishing Co., NY, 1915
Ellen Maria Haskell was unmarried.
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Ellen M. Haskell, sixth daughter of W. Turner Haskell, was born September 17, 1835, in Cumberland and has devoted most of her long life to teaching. After attendance in the public schools of her native town and the Friends' school in Providence, taught by Silas Cornell and his wife Sarah, she entered the Normal School of Providence, a private institution which was the foundation of the present State Normal School. The faculty at that time consisted of Professor Samuel S. Greene; Dana B. Colburn, later principal of the State Normal School; William Russell, subsequently principal of the State Normal School at Merrimack, New Hampshire, and Arthur Sumner, a cousin of Senator Charles Sumner. Upon leaving school she immediately took up teaching at the Potter avenue school in Providence, and after one term was transferred to the Bridgham street school, where she was several years assistant to the principal. Following this she taught in the high school of Providence, where she served several years, afterward becoming principal of Wheaton Seminary at Norton, Massachusetts, where she continued three Years. She then became a member of the faculty of the State Normal School of Worcester, Massachusetts, where she continued twenty years. At the end of this period she resigned and has since made her home in Providence with her sister, Mrs. Brown
Reference
New England Families Genealogical and Memorial Volume 1
By William Richard Cutter
Lewis Historical Publishing Co., NY, 1915
10010. Elizabeth Boyce Haskell
Elizabeth Boyce Haskell, youngest child of W. Turner Haskell, was born May 31,
1837, and was educated in the schools of Rhode Island. She married (first) Dr. Charles Frederick Saunders. of Pawtucket. After his death she married (second) Henry Tyler Brown, a native of Voluntown, Connecticut, born in June, 1830, son of Asher and Mary (Prentice) Brown. Mr. Brown was for some years a well-known citizen of Providence, where he entered the employ of the Gorham Manufacturing Company, as head of the retail department, finally opening a retail jewelry store in that city under the name of Gorham Company & Brown. He later purchased the Gorham Company's interest in the store, which was afterwards conducted under the firm name of Henry T. Brown, & Company. After retiring from this business he became agent of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, continuing in the same until his death, For many years, his home was at Arnold's Mills on the Haskell homestead, which he improved and beautified. He died November 25, 1893 and is buried in the Swan Point Cemetery at Providence.Reference
New England Families Genealogical and Memorial Volume 1
By William Richard Cutter
Lewis Historical Publishing Co., NY, 1915
James G. Haskell was a farmer.
Rhode Island, Wills and Probate Records, 1582-1932
Name: Levi Haskell
Probate Date: 1873
Probate Place: Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1873
Inferred Death Place: Rhode Island, USA
Case Number: 1585I Levi Haskell of North Providence in the county of Providence in the State of Rhode Island being of sound and disposing mind and memory do make this my last will and testament as follows that is to say
First, I leave and bequeth to Ebenezer Swift of Vineland New Jersey the sum of three hundred dollars to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
Second, I give to my daughter Eliza Anah Haskell the sum of four thousand dollars to her, her heird and assigns forever also to my daughter Eliza Anah Haskell all my household furniture the same to her heirs and assigns forever.
Third, I give and bequeth to the Morning Star Lodge No. 13 of Free and accepted Masons of Moomsocket in said County of Providence of which I am a member, the sum of twenty five dollars to be paid to them by my executor heirin after named within one hear after my decease.
Fourth, I give and bequeth my Masonic Lodge No. 10 of Pawtucket the sum of twenty five dollars to be paid to them by my executor heirin after named within one hear after my decease.
Fifth, I give and bequeth to my my lawful heirs all the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal, wheresoever situated to them, their heirs and assigns forever in equal shares that portion of property assigned to my son Jacob S. Haskell. I give and bequeth to William Henry Haskell of Pawtucket, in trust, to pay himat his discretion.
Lastly, I hereby nominate and appoint William Henry Haskell of Pawtucket sole executor of this my last will and testament and do herby revoke all other and former wills made by me made and published this and this only as sound for my last will and testament.
In testimony wherof I have set my hand and seal at North Providence this twenty second day of October A.D. 1872.
Signed by Levi Haskell
Augustus Holmes was a farmer.
Amos Haskell was a cordwainer. Cause of death was consumption.