Mehitable was active in the anti-slavery movement.
Aunt Hitty: Biographical and Reminiscent Narrartion of "Aunt Hitty" and "Uncle Thomas" Haskell
by Maria Herrick Bray
The Salem Press Co., Salem, Mass., 1908
Thomas Haskell from West Gloucester is listed as President of the Essex County Anti-Slavery Society on January 11, 1842. He helps to arrange Charles Remond and Parker Pillsbury to visit Rockport during a Quarterly Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society at the Universalist Church in Rockport. The following year, he is present when Remond returns to Rockport to speak with Wm. Lloyd Garrison.
Jane Haskell was unmarried.
Elizabeth Haskell was unmarried.
Martha Low Haskell was unmarried.