Served in War of 1812
Enlisted September 19, 1814
Served under Captain Benjamin Haskell in Massachusetts Militia
Served as a sargeant under Lieutenant Colonel James Appleton at the Battle of Gloucester
Discharged October 12, 1814
Bounty land warrant # 102849-160-50, claim # 319279
Widows certificate # WO7438Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Page 103
A historical discourse delivered at Chelsea, Mass., Sept. 20, 1866 at the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Winnisimmet Congregation
Micajah Haskell was born at Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 16, 1801, professed religion at Bangor, Me., and united with the First Congregational Church there in 1830; removed to this place in 1841; died, full of hope and peace, Oct. 30, 1850.
Henry Bailey Hascall prepared for college at the Malone Academy, entered Norwich University from Plattsburg in 1854 and remained for two years. He enlisted in the Navy at the outbreak of the Civil War and served until 1865.
Civil War Pension File
Mothers cert # 3744
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Report to 49th Congress
April 6, 1886
The evidence on file in the Pension Department shows that the claimant was appointed acting assistant paymaster in the United States Navy June 30, 1862, and was discharged September 9, 1865. The following is a summary of the services, exposures, and sufferings of claimant while in the service:August 7, 1862, reported to Rear Admiral Du Pont for duty on board the United States gunboat Madgie and did duty on her from that date to October 11, 1863; she was acting as a blockader and picket-boat in the marshes and inland channels and rivers of Georgia and South Carolina; before that she had been condemned as unseaworthy by a board of survey, and was twice so condemned while he was on duty on her, her boilers and flues continuously bursting; her hull was water soaked and leaky, requiring constant pumping; the rain came through her deck in the officers quarters and wet their berths and the living rooms occupied by twelve of the officers, including the claimant, the room being 8 feet by 14 feet in size, and located directly over the furnaces and in the rear of the engine. While in her the claimant was constantly exposed to dampness and the malaria of the marshes. This boat foundered October 11, 1863, the officers and men escaping in small boats and being taken to Hampton Roads. This exposure to dampness and malaria brought on rheumatism.
In January 1864, he reported for duty on board the steamer Chenango. In April 1864, in New York Harbor, the boilers of the steamer exploded. The chief engineer and three other officers were scalded to death. The exertions of the claimant in caring for his dying friends and the shock of the explosion brought on nervous debility, which resulted in sciatic rheumatism, abhorrence of food, inability to sleep and general prostration. After being cared for while on shipboard, he was carried to the house of a friend in Brooklyn. While on the Chenango, Assistant Surgeon D. P. Goodhue, of New Hampshire, attended him.
In August 1864, and before he was fully recovered, he was ordered to take charge of stores on board of the chartered steamboat Aphrodite, bound for the Gulf of Mexico. On the second voyage of that vessel she was wrecked at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, and was a total wreck. Twenty men were drowned and missing. The claimant and others were landed on a barren, sandy island, exposed to the weather, which was stormy and cold, with very little food and no fuel for six days. They were taken off in lighters, each containing from seventy to eighty men, through the channel to the fleet, then at Beaufort, a trip lasting twenty four hours, in the midst of a heavy rain, with no covering over them, and so crowded that there was not even room to sit down.
He was then transferred to the United States steamship Mercedita and was ordered to begin transferring men to Admiral Farragut's squadron. This continued about thirty days, when, by proper orders, he reported for duty at the Brooklyn navy yard, where he was directed to take charge of the payment of bounty of the enlisted seamen, paying large sums of money - sometimes as much as $150,000 in a day - until at last, in consequence of his sickness and debility occasioned by his exposure, he was compelled to and did resign.
[ the remaining text covers various testimony on the health before and after the war, and finalizes with recommendation of Commission of Pensions to approve the requested pension]
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New York Herald-Tribune
March 11, 1887
HASCALL - At his residence, 98 Monroe st., Brooklyn Bailey Hascall aged 48 years.Bailey Hascall served as a paymaster in the USN in the Civil War.
John Avery Haskell was a blacksmith.
Lemuel Haskell was a cordwainer in Gloucester, MA. In the 1855 Massachusetts State Census of Gloucester he is listed as a mariner.
Jacob Haskell was a yeoman.
The Gloucester birth record for Josephine B. Haskell is in error in listing her as Joseph B. Haskell.
CAPE ANN ADVERTISER
NOVEMBER 5, 1897Mr. Benjamin Haskell, an old time and respected citizen, whose serious illness was alluded to in our column last week, died at his residence on Spring Street, at an early hour Sunday morning at the advance aged of eighty years.
Mr. Haskell was a native of West Gloucester, being the son of Zebulon and Judith (Herrick) Haskell and traced his descent in a direct line from William Haskell, who was born in England and came to Beverly with his brother about 1632, removing to Gloucester in 1643. He was born on the old farm near the old grist mill in the "upper parish, " the land having been granted to William and having been in the family since.
At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed to the late Nathaniel R. Webster for four years to learn the
blacksmithing trade, and at the close of his apprenticeship established himself in business near Easter Point Light, being employed in sharpening the tools of workmen employed upon the ledge near there among the stone quarried there being that used in his construction of the Boston custom house.
He then entered the employ of the Eastern railroad, being first located at Salem while the tunnel was being constructed, his blacksmith shop being located on the present site of the court house. He continued with the company all the way to Portland, about five years.About 1843, he entered into a partnership with the late Augustus M. Howe, but a year later commenced business on his own account, continuing till 1860, when in company with Mr. Nathan Richardson he established the Cape Ann Anchor Works and machine shop, setting up the first trip hammer to run by steam in the town. At the first trial, however, he lost the sight of one eye by molten iron striking it as the the blow from the hammer descended.
While in business individually, he took the contract to erect the spindle on the Londoner, near Thatcher's Island, and as the work could only be done at low tide, he employed his time in mackerel fishing from a boat, with such good result that the fish taken paid the expense of the job.
Mr. Richardson later retired from the anchor works, when Mr. Haskell took as partners Messrs. Tisdale D. Collins and John Clark, and in 1864 sold out his interest to them, the business being later removed to its present location on the Annisquam River near the railroad bridge. The following year he fitted out an expedition to the Georges to recover lost anchors, but though several were grappled the buoyancy of the cables attached caused the grappling irons to release their hold and the enterprise was unsuccessful.In 1866 with his sons Howard and Otis L., he commenced the grocery and provision business in the stores now occupied by E.K. Burnham and George A. Watson, at the junction of Main and Spring Streets, in which he continued for five or six years, when he withdrew to allow his sons Melvin and Loring B. to take his place; but for a long time he took a very lively interest in the business, in fact, until it was closed up in 1893. He married Miss Mary B. Nobel, who survives him. Their union was blessed with thirteen children, of whom only five survive, Howard, Melvin, Loring B. and Benjamin of this city and Otis L. of Denver, Colorado.
The deceased was a man of strict integrity and exceptional business ability. His nature was kindly and he was very broad and liberal-minded. Although always a persistent worker he still found time to be about and enjoy the good things of life. His judgment in business matters was very sound and he carried into his everyday life, a store of wisdom gained at the -- of experience and hard work.
His funeral took place from his late residence on Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
William Babson Haskel was unmarried.
GLOUCESTER DAILY TIMES & CAPE ANN ADVERTISER
NOVEMBER 20, 1933Melvin Haskell, who died yesterday at his home 316 Main street, in this city, was a well-known figure in this city, having been in his life time of 85 years, a merchant, member of the common council, state representative, and member of the Master Mariners Association.
Since 1893 he had been retired from business, devoting his time in looking after his real estate holdings, ice boating, motoring and yachting. He was a familiar figure at the Master Mariners' rooms, having been skipper of a mackerel seiner for several summers in his younger days.
Mr. Haskell was the son of Benjamin and Mary Babson (Noble) Haskell and was born in this city January 9, 1848. On his father's side he descended from William Haskell, who came from England and settled at West Gloucester in 1643, and on his mother's side from the Centers of this city, and the Babsons of Rockport. He married Lizzie H Thomas on May 18, 1880, his first wife having passed away previously, Mrs. Haskell died Sept 11, 1932.
At one time, Mr. Haskell was identified with L. B. Haskell and Sons, well known firm of merchants having three firm establishments at the foot of Union Hill: a grocery store, at the Corner of Vincent and Main streets, a meat store at what is now 284 Main street, and a outfitting shop where the United Fisheries establishment is now.
For many years he was the oldest, and one of the leading members of the republican city committee. He served one term as a member of the common council in 1886, and was a representative in 1908. He was member of the Independent Christian church, (Universalist).
Surviving him are a brother, Loring Haskell of Long Beach, CaI., a nephew, and several nieces, including Miss Marguerite Haskell of this city. William E. Bragg had made his home with the deceased since childhood.The funeral will be held from the home tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock with burial at Oak Grove cemetery.
Justine Haskell was unmarried.