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

Notes


945. Pardon Cory

Revelotionary War Pension File W26636
Pension issued 1844 to Jemima Pardon
Married 14 February 1779
Pardon drowned somewhere between Portsmouth and Taunton in Tuanton river during May 1780.
Enlisted 1776, sergeant in John Carr's company, Colonel Lippitt's regiment. went to Boston and was in service until after the British evacuated that place. length of service at least 8 months.
Served in 1777 under Colonel William Barton, at the time General Prescott was taken.
Enlisted summer 1778 in Captain William Taggart's company in the boat service, engaged in transporting munitions and provisions.


947. Samuel Cory

Newport Mercury
August 28, 1841
Died
At Portsmouth on Saturday last, Mr. Samuel Cory, aged 84 years, - He was a soldier of the Revolution, and is believed to to have been the last survivor of that gallant band, who on the 10th July 1777, accompanied Col. Barton in his expedition to Rhode Island, in which they surprised and captured Major General Prescott Commander in Chief of the British Army.


951. William Haskell

William Jr. was included in a list of men mustered by Joseph Otis, Muster Master for Barnstable County, Massachusetts, dated 18 February 1777, under Captain J. Russell's company of Colonel G. Bradford's regiment. He engaged for the town of Barnstable, mustered 10 February 1777, for 3 years. He was reported to have received State and Continental bounties.

William was on a return dated Barnstable 14 April 1777, of blankets received from the Selectmen of Barnstable and Yarmouth by Joseph Otis, Muster Master and delivered to the Board of War and certain soldiers. The said William returned as belonging to Captain Russell or Captain Davis's company of Colonel Bradford's regiment, and as having received a blanket.

William, of Barnstable, was included in list of men raised to serve in the Continental Army as returned by Daniel Davis and Ebenezer Jenkins, Selectmen and Committee of the town of Barnstable, dated 10 May 1778; joined Captain J. Russell's company of Colonel Bradford's regiment.

Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Page 51
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Revolutionary War pension file, William Haskell, 1758 - 1827, file 35394

He was born in Barnstable, Massachusetts.
In 1818 he was a resident of Harlem, Kennebec, Maine.
His spouse is Rhoda, age 53, son Benjamin, age 34, son Daniel, age 10, daughter Susan, age 8, son Samuel, age 6.

He enlisted May 1778, Captain Machias Company, Colonel Bradford's Massachusetts regiment.

He was discharged January 1780 at West Point.


2519. Nathaniel Haskell

Nathaniel (Nathan) Hascall was unmarried.


John Harris

Captain John Harris was born on Nantucket Island, Mass., about 1753. He followed the sea and ran a packet between New York and Liverpool till the opening of the Revolutionary war, when he removed to Voluntown (now Sterling,) Conn., where, in 1776, just one month before the Declaration of Independence, he married Tamer, daughter of William Ransford, a native of Voluntown, Conn., where they resided till 1790. Captain Harris, as before stated, came to Norwich in 1789, and took up 256 acres, extending from Broad Street to the river and from the south bounds of the American Hotel property to the north line of the Terwilliger place, in the north part of the village. Having arranged with Avery Power and William Smiley to build him a log cabin, he returned in the fall for his family, which he brought in the following January, with two yoke of oxen, attached to a long sled, on which were packed goods and family supplies. His family rode in a sleigh, drawn by a span of horses. They stopped one night at the house of John Eastwood, a noted Methodist, who had then made a settlement on the Unadilla in Guilford.

The journey from the Unadilla to Norwich occupied two days. His family then consisted of his wife and six children, Blin, Abby, John, Squire, Tamer and William.

The house, which he expected to find ready for occupancy, was not begun. He quartered his family with that of William Smiley until he rolled up his log-house, which, with the aid of his brothers-in-law, Hascall and William Ransford, who accompanied him in the settlement, in 1790, occupied only four days. Smiley's house contained only one room, and in this he, his wife and two or three children, Harris, with his family and two brothers-in-law, lived in the most democratic manner, making their beds upon the floor. Harris' house was something of an improvement on this, as it had two rooms. It stood just north of the brook which crosses the main street near the brick brewery, between that and the orchard on the Rexford place; but no trace of it remains. The orchard referred to was set out by Harris between 1790 and 1797. This house was replaced in 1808 by a frame structure, which was removed in the spring of 1836, to the corner above the residence of Dr. Harvey Harris, for which it made way, and in 1850, it was again removed to the canal, where it still stands, being still occupied as a residence.

Harris was principally engaged here in surveying. He surveyed and divided the 10th township (North Norwich,) which had been bought by some eight or nine individuals. He laid out immediately after coming in, the road which now forms Broad street in the village of Norwich and then extends north from the Canasawacta two and a half miles in a straight line and from thence north to Sherburne and south to Oxford. This was the first road in the old town of Norwich, and in the north part of the county, probably the only one then in the county, except the old military, or Chenango, road in the south part of the county, and possibly the Unadilla river road. Harris and his wife both died on the homestead, the former of dropsy, in 1797, and the latter, February 18, 1835, aged 76. Subsequent to Harris' death, she married Samuel Hull, from Stillwater, Saratoga County, who also died here, Dec. 13, 1830, aged 88. Harris had two children after he came here, Harvey and Annie.

Reference
History of Chenango and Madison Counties
James H. Smith
D. Mason & Co. - Syracuse, NY - 1880


2531. Tamer Harris


History of Chenango and Madison Counties
James H. Smith
D. Mason & Co. - Syracuse, NY - 1880

Tamer married Pardon Barnes, and after his death, in Norwich, where they settled, Calvin Richardson, with whom she removed to Kingston, Penn., where she was taken sick, returned to Norwich and died.


2532. William Harris


History of Chenango and Madison Counties
James H. Smith
D. Mason & Co. - Syracuse, NY - 1880
William died when about ten years old.


2537. Squire Harris


History of Chenango and Madison Counties
James H. Smith
D. Mason & Co. - Syracuse, NY - 1880
Squire was a bachelor and lived with his brother John, died in New Berlin Dec. 25, 1875, aged nearly 91.


955. Hascall Ransford


Hascall and William Ransford were brothers and natives of Voluntown, Connecticut, from whence they removed to this county. They came on foot. Hascall was born February 10, 1766, and came at the age of twenty-four years. He took up 150 acres of land, to which he subsequently added, a mile north of the village. The farm, the larger part of it, is now occupied by J. Dakin Reed. R. A. Young occupies that part of the farm which lies east of the river. A portion of the west side is occupied by his daughter Fanny, wife of Anthony Lamb. It is still known as the Ransford farm, having remained in that family till within some twelve or fifteen years. He worked two summers and spent his winters in Ballston. The second winter he brought in his parents, William and Abigail, the former of whom was born in Old Plymouth, Massachusetts, July 3, 1728, and the latter in Hillingsby, Connecticut, Feb. 25, 1726. His father died July 2, 1814, aged 85 and his mother, May 6, 1811, at the same age. At this time (1792) his worldly possessions consisted of a span of horses, a sleigh and forty dollars in money. With the latter he bought a yoke of oxen. He sold one horse and the other went to make the first payment on his land. July 12, 1792, he married Fanny, daughter of Matthew Graves, who was born in Conway, Massachusetts, December 21, 1775. He had previously made a small clearing on his land and built a log shanty in which he soon after commenced keeping a tavern. This, his family claim, was the first tavern in the town. This house stood on the east side of the road, about twenty-five rods south of the residence of the widow Lamb, about the locality of the gate across the road leading to the bridge which crosses the canal in that vicinity. About 1799, he built a frame house, which stood on the hill opposite the log house, on the west side of the road. This was torn down some twenty or more years ago, by George Mulligan, who used the frame in the construction of his present residence in the north part of the village. That was the second frame house in town.  Haskell died on the farm on which he first settled June 30, 1839, aged 73, and his wife, on the portion then occupied by his son William, December 20, 1859, aged 85. He represented Chenango County in the Assembly in 1814. Numerous descendants are living in the locality of his settlement.

Hascall Ransford's children were: Horace, Abigail, Hannah, Hascall, Matthew Graves, Horace (the second by this name), William, Fanny, Louisa Frances, Charles and Hiram.

Reference
History of Chenango and Madison Counties
James H. Smith
D. Mason & Co. - Syracuse, NY, 1880


956. William Ransford

William Ransford settled on 190 acres on the east side of the river, at Wood's Corners. The farm has since been divided between two grand-daughters: Henrietta, wife of William K. Loomis, a wheelwright in Norwich, and Jennette, wife of M. J. Reese, who is now living on the homestead. He married Hannah, daughter of Josiah Brown and both died on the farm upon which they settled. They had five children, three sons and two daughters.

Reference
History of Chenango and Madison Counties
James H. Smith
D. Mason & Co. - Syracuse, NY, 1880