Andrew mustered on 1 September 1813 aged 13 years old into Boys Service with the United States Navy. He joined USS Congress at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. After training he joined USS Madison at Sackets Harbour, on Lake Ontario, until the war came to an end. He then returned to USS Congress.
Andrew later served under Stephen Decatur' at Tripoli, on the North African coast, in actions against Barbary pirates, who were attacking United States merchant ships.
After discharge from the Navy, at a date not given, Andrew married Betsy Ober of Beverly, Massachusetts, on 3 December 1824, and had two sons, William F. born 1828, and Henry A. born 1838 at Charlestown, Massachusetts, who was later Killed- in- Action during the Civil War. At an unrecorded date Betsy died, and Andrew at a later date stated that he "married Mary Williams many years ago and had two children", one, Richard A. was born in 1851.
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces
Volume Two, The United States of America
Part One 1625-1853
Editor Peter P. Haskell
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Pension file for Andrew and Moses are provided as Andrew's testimony is key to both, since he laid claim to Moses' pension.
War of 1812 pension file For Andrew
Application # 28035, cert # 20172
Bounty Land Warrent # 53206-160-155
Application for bounty land filed in Boston September 27, 1855, by Andrew Haskell, aged 54.
He served as Landsman on the U.S. CongressWar of 1812 Pension File for Moses
Application # 25559, cert # 13458
Bounty Land Warrent - 2336-160-155
Enlisted January 14, 1814 as Landsman U. S. Navy
Discharged January 15, 1816
First Wife, Mary Williams
Other Wife Charlotte ClappTestimony of Moses March 2, 1855
Shipped as a "boy" at the rendevouz in Boston Mass., U. S. Ship Congress.
Served on the U.S. Madison.
He was a native of Beverly Mass.. age 56, vendor of powder for teeth, resides on Canton Street, Boston.
[ this appears to be truly from Moses]
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Testimony of Moses November 28, 1871
He is a resident of Greenfield, Hillsboro, New Hampshire, age 72.
He is married to Charlotte Clapp, his 2nd wife, who he married at Charestown, Mass. September 15, 1849.
[this appears to be Andrew's application for Moses' pension. later testimony by Andrew lists Charlotte Clapp as wife of Andrew.]
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Portions of the pension file consist of testimony concerning Moses' brother Andrew D. Haskell, claiming the pension of Moses as well as his own.
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Testimony of Andrew, August 27, 1881
Andrew says he has not taken Moses' pension
Moses and Andrew served together in the war.
Andrew married Mary Williams of Boston Mass., and had 4 children, two still living. One son Henry Haskell was killed in the Civil War (4th N.H.). Andrew married Charlotte Clapp of Boston and had one child.
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Testiomony of William F. Haskell, son of Andrew Haskell, September 10, 1881.
He had not seen his uncle Moses since the war of 1861-65.
He learned his father was drawing two pensions about a year ago, when his brother Richard got into a row with his father, and treatened to tell everyone that Andrew was recieving two pensions. Willliam states that his uncle never lived New Hampshire.
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Testimony of Richard H. Haskell, August 27, 1881.
Heard his father was drawing two pensions
_____Andrew Haskell, a pensioner of the war of 1812, born January, 1785[sic], in Boston. visited Concord, Wednesday, from Stoddard, where be now resides, to draw his pension. He is one of the brightest and smartest men ot his age that the pension rolls can produce. He converses like "a well-preserved man of sixty years, though he is in his 95th[sic] year, and steps around like a youngster. He came on the cars alone. He served in the old Constitution, and afterwards in the Congress .with Decatur - was with him when chased' by British cruisers into Portsmouth and was with him in the Meditteranean service. He susequently sailed out of Boston and New York as shipmaster for many years in the foreign merchant service. He was at one time in the whale fishery service and was at the Sandwich Islands before any Christian missionary saw the islands. Lost one ship in that service, stove to pieces by an infuriated sperm whale, and ate human flesh before rescued by an English ship from fragments of the wreck. His first presidential vote was for Jeffesron, and he believes Jackson to have been the best man in office since Washington. His first wife, Mary, daughter of John D. Williams, an old and noted merchant of Boston, died many years ago. She was a member of Dr. Beechers's church. His present wife is a daughter of Clapp, the old Boston painter. He has had eight children by his first and three by his second wife, of whom William of Stoddard at Mill Village, by the first marriage, and Richard, by the second marriage, residing on a farm in Greenfield belonging to his mother, are the surviving children. He is a teetotaler and had been so all his life, and never used the weed until he got into it foolishly, he says, after coming to New Hampshire, some 28 years ago. He is certainly an extraordinary old gentleman.
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: William F Haskell
Residence: Hooksett, New Hampshire
Age at enlistment: 27
Enlistment Date: 16 Sep 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: New Hampshire
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company C, New Hampshire 4th Infantry Regiment on 18 Sep 1861.
Mustered out on 03 May 1862 at Augustine, FL.
Birth Date: abt 1834
Sources: Register of Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire 1861-65
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Civil War Pension File, Invalid application # 154950, certificate # 468368
Enlisted September 16, 1861 in NH Volunteers, for three years.
He was 28 years old, born in Boston, Massachusetts, was 5' 7" tall, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair.
Certificate of disabilty discharge dated May 3, 1862.
Contacted malaria while building a wharf in Port Royal, South Carolina.
Wife is Harriet Peabody, married in Biddeford, Maine.
2nd Wife was Hannah Percival married in Milford, N.H.
Both of his wifes had deserted him.
He had no children.
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
Name: Henry A Haskell
Residence: Mont Vernon, New Hampshire
Age at enlistment: 23
Enlistment Date: 16 Sep 1861
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: New Hampshire
Survived the War?: No
Service Record: Enlisted in Company C, New Hampshire 4th Infantry Regiment on 18 Sep 1861.
Mustered out on 09 Oct 1864.
Birth Date: abt 1838
Sources: Register of Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire 1861-65
The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War
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Civil War Pension File
Widow application # 95609, cert # 85968
Died at Chapins Farm, Virginia September 29, 1864
Married Mary F. Worcester March 19, 1864
Deposition of his father Andrew Haskell
Stephen Haskell was unmarried.
John Ober Haskell was a laborer.
Daily Troy Budget
September 9, 1842:
DIED,
This morning, BETSEY S. McKIBBIN, aged 38 years. Funeral to-morrow at 2 o�clock P.M. from the residence of her father, J. A. Zander, 35 Albany street.
Milwaukee Daily Sentinel
August 14, 1863DIED. In this city, on the morning of the 13th inst. JEREMIAH B. ZANDER, in the 59th year of his age. Funeral on Friday, the 14th inst. at 3 o'clock p.m. from his late residence in the Fifth Ward.
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Daily Milwaukee News
August 14, 1863-Death of J. B. Zander. On last Wednesday night at 12 o¹clock J. B. Zander, one of the first settlers of Milwaukee, died of paralysis, at his residence in the Fifth Ward. Mr. Zander came to this city in 1836, and has resided here constantly since that time. He held the office of deputy clerk of the Circuit Court for 15 years or more, and it will be difficult to find a man to fill that position who is so well qualified to perform its duties. Few men here were more thoroughly acquainted with the early history, social and political, of the city and State, than was Mr. Zander. He had a very large circle of acquaintances and friends who will most sincerely mourn his departure. Moving in the large circle he did and taking an active part in the exciting political contests of the period during which he has lived in Wisconsin, it would be strange indeed if he had no enemies; still we may venture the opinion that he had as few as any other man in like circumstances, and that his worst enemy was himself.
Milwaukee Sentinel
April 7, 1880Died. Zander - At her residence, 341 Virginia street, Ellen F. Zander, aged 69 years.
Milwaukee Sentinel
April 30, 1862Death of a Volunteer - Died in the 4th inst., at the Hospital in Bowling Green, Ky., of pulmonary consumption, Augustus T. Zander, private in Company B, of the First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers.
Milwaukee Sentinel
August 28, 1847Died, On Thursday 26th inst., Ellen Augusta, infant daughter of J.B. And Ellen T. Zander, of Cholera infanism, aged 15 months and 6 days.
Daily Times
September 2, 1876Died.
BROWN� On the 20th inst, at her late residence, Milwaukee, Wis., Frances Ellen, wife of Charles A. Brown and daughter of the late Jeremiah B. Zander, aged 24 years, 4 months and 11 days.