Herbert Reading Sargent was a merchant in Belfast, Maine.
The following note is from the Gloucester marriage records: "Herbert Redding, and Sarah Rust, intentions Oct. 23, 1824. (Banns forbidden by Herbert R. Sargent, Jan. 3, 1826.)"
Ezra Haskell at age 43 was a farmer (1850 census, of Gloucester, MA)..