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

Notes


1188. Seth Haskell

Seth, a private in Captain Benjamin Dillingham's company; enlisted April 18, 1770; service 7 months & 17 days; company stationed at Dartmouth for defense of seacoast; Roll dated Dartmouth.

Seth on Payroll of 2nd company commanded by Lieutenant John Doty, Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's regiment; enlisted May 6, 1778; discharged May 7, 1778, service 2 days on an alarm at Dartmouth; Roll sworn to Plymouth County.

Also, same company and regiment; enlisted September 5, 1778; discharged September 11, 1778, service 6 days on alarm at Dartmouth; roll sworn to in Plymouth County.

Also, same company and regiment; enlisted September 13, 1778; discharged September 17, 1778, service 5 days on alarm at Falmouth, Barnstable County.

Also, served as a Sergeant in Captain Edward Hammond's, company, engaged Aug. 13, 1779; discharged Sept. 13, 1779, service 1 month and 4 days at Rhode Island, travel (80 miles) included. Company detached to serve for the term of 1 month in a regiment under Samuel Fisher, Commandant.

Seth, a private in Captain Amos Washburn's company, Colonel Ebenezer White's regiment; marched Aug. 1, 1780; discharged Aug. 9, 1780; service 9 days, mileage out and home (80 miles) allowed. Company marched to Rhode Island on an alarm; Roll sworn to at Middleboro.

Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Pages 59, 76, 77


3173. Clarinda Haskell

Clarinda Haskell was unmarried.


3179. Deborah Fessenden Haskell

Deborah Fessenden Haskell is recorded as a son in the original Rochester vital records.


1219. Elnathan Haskell

Elnathan was a Colonel in the Revolutionary Army and a member of General Washington's staff.

The great painting of Burgoyne's surrender which adorns the walls of the Capitol at Washington shows Colonel Haskell as one of General Washington's staff. He went south with General Greene and settled at Amelia Township on the Santee river, South Carolina, where he married Charlotte Thomson.

Reference
Chronicles of the Haskell Family
Ira J. Haskell
Ellis Printing Company, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1943
Page 153
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Revolutionary War pension file 21254
He was Deputy Adjutant generals' aide.

Commissioned January 1, 1777, 1st Lieutenant, and acted as Adjutant of Colonel Bradford's Massachusetts regiment.

Commissioned April 1, 1778, Captain of the 14th Massachusetts regiment; August 21, 1781, he was acting as Deputy Adjutant General; was appointed September 2, 1782, aid to General Howe.

On September 30, 1783 was commissioned Major by Brevet in the United States Army.

He was commissioned April 24, 1784, Colonel and Deputy Adjutant General of the Fifth Division, Massachusetts militia, and October 20, 1785 was commissioned Major of the 2nd regiment of the United States Army.

He was in the battles of Brandywine and Saratoga.

He married Charlotte Thomson, daughter of William Thomson May 12, 1792, St. Matthews Parish, South Carolina.

Widows application
April 1845, living in Charleston, South Carolina, aged 73, eight months, died April 29, 1850
Her surviving children
Charlotte, wife of James Smith Rhett
Pauline, wife of Benjamin S. Rhett
Eugenia L. Noble
Charles T. Haskell
William H. Haskell


Charlotte Thomson

Charlotte Thomson was of a South Carolina family who had originally come from Ireland to settle in Pennsylvania. Her father, William "Old Danger" of Revolutionary fame, won renown during the Indian Wars and received thanks of the Continental Congress for his part in the victories that secured the freedom of South Carolina.

Source
Alexander Cheves Haskell, Portrait of a Man
by Louise Haskell Daly