EARLY HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MILFORD AND OTHER PARTS OF OTSEGO CO. From 1773 to 1903
by EZRA STEVENS
Mr. Reuben Westcott, Senior, reared a family of twelve children: six sons and six daughters. Nine of them were born in Cheshire, and three in Milford.
Andrew, his eldest son, married Hannah Russel.
Polly, his eldest daughter, married Jason Willcox.
Hosea married Henrietta Bates.
Reuben married Wealthy Rose.
Otis, the fourth son, married Sally Morris.
Orisa married Nelson Mumford, a Baptist clergyman.
Harvey married Sally Bates.
Susan married David Morris.
July married Alonzo Ray.
Erastus married Miss Lucy Ann Rockwell.
Eliza never married.
Leurania married Chester Rockwell, who was a manufacturing clothier.The whole Westcott family have gone to their long home except Erastus. He was a Baptist minister located in one of the western states.
History and Genealogy of the ancesters and descendants of Stukely Westcott
By Roscoe L. Whitman
Page 236[Charles Westcott]
In his will, date July 26, 1855, Charles left $400, to be divided between his grandchildren, Albert and Charles Dodge, sons of his deceased daughter Lucinda, when they became of age, and the remainder of his estate to his wife, Eunice, to be divided after her death, between his son Arnold, and dau. Eliza Coon, Arnold to recieve $200 more than Eliza.Analysis by Rebecca Wescott Brown establishes that Lucinda Didge, above is actually a sister to Charles Wescott.
There is a good chance that this is John Hascall who married Mary Allen
John Hascall bn 1784 in Connecticut, had a brother Lemuel who used the Haskell spelling.
John's will was made 8 June 1851 and was probated 7 May 1857.
Heirs, wife Mary, Sons John H. and Theodore, John H. executor
Abraham Skaats was a carver.
Connecticut Mirror
October 22, 1831
Died
At Wethersfield, Mary Skaats, 16
Lived in Cherry Valley, Otsego, New York, Moved to Madison NY. Later to Ohio. On a trip to Chicago in 1834, weather forced them to winter in La Porte Indiana. Settled in Galena Woods, Indiana where he built a sawmill and a grist mill. Charles owned three saw mill and two grist mills and owned seceral hundred acres of land.
He settled in La Porte In, then known as Galena Woods. He owned a 125 acre farm, and built grist mills for grinding grain and sawing logs.
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LaPorte Argus
21 Dec 1882
Luke Francis died Friday, December 15th, at 11:05 a.m., funeral at 10:30 a.m., Sunday December 15th. (Note: should read, funeral December 17th) Burial in Foster Cemetery.
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Chapman's History of LaPorte County, 1880, page 733Luke Francis was born in Connecticut in 1823, and came to this county in 1834. He is the son of Charles and Elizabeth Francis, natives also of Connecticut. He was married in this county, in 1847, to Betsey A. Marshall, daughter of Noah and Nancy Marshall, of Connecticut. He owns a farm on sec. 14, consisting of 125 acres, all in a good state of cultivation. Politically, he is a Republican. His post office address is Rolling Prairie.
Lemuel Haskell was a master mason.
Lemuel moved to an area later called Claredon in 1817. In 1819 he moved to Clarkson, Monroe, New York.
Rochester Union and Advertiser
June 23, 1879Mrs. Lemuel Haskell, mother of John B. Haskell, Esq., of Clarkson, who died June 14th, was one of the pioneer settlers, having come to Rochester in 1818 and to Clarkson in 1820.
Henry M. Haskell was unmarried. He was a merchant, grocer, and postmaster.
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Rochester Union and Advertiser
November 4, 1864
Death of a postmaster - The Rockport Republic says Henry M. Haskell, postmaster at Clarkson, died on the 19th ult., at Beaufort, N.C.