Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)

Notes


769. Mark Haskell

Mark Haskell served as a Light House Volunteer during the Revolutionary War.


2142. Eunice Heard

Eunice Heard was unmarried.


781. Job Haskell

Job Haskell moved to Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, in 1737.

For many years, he made his home in what was George's Tavern, where the legislatures of New Hampshire and Massachusetts met to settle disputed boundary lines.

He was active in New Hampshire politics, especially during the Revolution.

In 1787, he moved to New Gloucester, Main.

Reference
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
Ira J. Haskell
Ellis Printing Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1943
Pages 253-254
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In November, 1765, he signed the petition for a Presbyterian church and for renewal of the same in July, 1767, upon which the town of Hampton was divided into two parishes. He also signed a petition praying that a township be set off to the petitioners.

In 1778, he signed a petition as of Seabrook, New Hampshire, to relieve the town from making up the deficiency in the number of men ordered for the Continental army, or that the Quakers he compelled to procure their proportionate part, having procured only nine out of the fifteen men called for.

A Short Account of the Descendants of William Haskell
by Ulysses G. Haskell
From the Collections of the Essex Institute, Vol XXXII, 1896
Also published in Haskell Journal 1-4, 1898