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

Notes


5850. Joseph Haskell

Joseph Haskell reportedly drowned ("at the age of 19") in March 1812 in the Tagus River in either Spain or Portugal, but most likely in or near Lisbon, Portugal.
Reference
Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the year 1850


Issachar Woodbury

Issachar Woodbury at age 65 was a shoe maker.


5858. Issachar Woodbury Haskell

Issachar Woodbury Haskell was unmarried.


Philip Messervey

Philip served on board the U.S. Sturdy Beggar commisioned November 1776.
He was committed to Old Mill Prison, England and escaped June 1777.
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The Sturdy Beggar was a schooner of 90 tons, carrying 6 guns and 20 men, owned by Mr. Cabot's friend, Elias H. Derby of Salem. Her first captain was Peter Landen of Salem, followed in a few weeks by the celebrated Allen Hallet, later by Edward Rowland. On February 24, 1777, the Sturdy Beggar, Captain Rowland, is reported taken by an English vessel, and in June the crew were committed to Mill Prison.


John White

John was a soldier in the Revolution, and enlisted May, 1775, in Capt. John Merritt's company, under Col. John Glover, commander of the 21st Massachusetts regiment of foot. He served eight months in the siege of Boston, and afterwards served one year, 1716-7, in Capt. Enoch Putnam's company, of Col. Israel Hutchinson's regiment, and was with Gen. Washington at the crossing of the Delaware River. He afterwards was one of the crew of the schooner Tyraniside, and served in the war of 1812, when he was taken prisoner on board the privateer brig Thorn, of Marblehead, and for a number of months he lay in prison at Halifax, until the peace of 1815.
Reference
The Descendants of Thomas White of Marblehead and Mark Haskell of Beverly
Compiled by Perley Derby, Press of David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1872
Pages 23-24


2259. Thomas Haskell

Thomas was Captain of the Schooner "Ranger," 56T.

Reference
Old Marblehead Sea Captains and the Ships in which They Sailed
Marblehead Historical Society, 1915
Page 73

Thomas, master mariner; had made a number of voyages to Bilboa and Corunna, Spain, and afterwards retired from the sea and became an owner of a number of vessels and of a considerable landed estate.

Nov. 26, 1804, he and his wife Mary, with the following named parties, to wit: - Joshua Prentiss Jr., Henry Prentiss, Thomas Prentiss, Christopher Prentiss, Edmund, Jr., and Abigail Lewis, Thomas Calley and wife Grace, and widow Margaret Ingalls, all of Marblehead, sold to John Bubier Prentiss, for $800, their eight-tenth parts of a house, barn and land, given to them by will of their late grandfather Christopher Bubier, deceased, which estate was bounded on the way from training-field hill to Nick's Cove, with a shop "now occupied by John Sumner."

May 4, 1809, he bought from Abraham and Martha Wendell his wife, of Salem, a tract of land and a house bounded on the highway passing training-field hill, and on land set off to Sarah, wife of Michael Coombs, deceased, the premises being the same sold to said Sarah Coombs by a committee of the General Court, in 1782, as confiscated estate.

Dec. 15, 1809, he bought from Nicholas Coombs his one-tenth part of the house and land adjoining training-field hill, lately belonging to the estate of Capt. Michael Coombs, as set off to his said wife Sarah as her thirds, by General Court, Feb. 11, 1809.

Also, four days after, he bought of Thomas Goss, of Pejepscot, Maine, another tenth part of said mansion, and two other tenth parts of Joshua Goss and Nicholas Coombs, Feb. 9th following; and in 1810-11, he purchased of other heirs still more of the same property, besides a tract of land in Salem, bounded on Long Wharf, and another piece on Union Street.

Mr. Prentiss for many years was town clerk of Marblehead, till his decease.

Reference
The Descendants of Thomas White of Marblehead and Mark Haskell of Beverly
Compiled by Perley Derby, Press of David Clapp & Son, Boston, 1872
Pages 59-60


5912. John Phillips Brimblecomb

John Brimblecomb died young.