Saturday, June 24, 2017

Surname Saturday ~ HASKELL of Gloucester, Massachusetts



HASKELL / HASKEL / HASKLE / HASCOLL / HASCALL

This is a case of my 9th great grandfather who married my 10th great grandmother.  Sounds funny? Well, it is a very tangled family tree.

William Haskell, my 10th great grandfather, was born about 1578 probably in Charlton Musgrove, Somersetshire, England, where he also died and was buried on 11 May 1630.  He left a widow, my 10th great grandmother, Elinor Foule, and seven children.  Sometime later Elinor remarried to John Stone, who happens to be my 9th great grandfather through his first marriage to Elinor Cooke [See this link for my STONE lineage through their son Nathaniel Stone:   https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/12/surname-saturday-stone-of-beverly.html  ]

In 1635 John Stone brought his own two Stone sons, his second wife Elinor, and some of Haskell children to Massachusetts.  They settled at what is now Beverly, Massachusetts and owned a farm near the Bass River, close to where the United States Shoe Machinery Corporation, now the Cummings Center, was located.  If this sounds familiar, three generations of my family worked at “The Shoe”, including my own father, and it was just a few blocks from my childhood house on 7 Dearborn Avenue. Can you believe my family lived in this neighborhood for nearly 400 years? 

Of these four Haskell children who appear later in the Massachusetts records, much is known about Roger, who appeared to be here first.  According to an article in the New England Historic Genealogy Society Register: “Mark was apprenticed to John Whiting, broadweaver of Shepton Mallet, in 1635 for nine years. He does not appear in Massachusetts before 1652 he likely completed his apprenticeship before joining his brothers in New England.  Roger, the oldest, appears in Charlton Musgrove records as late as 1635 but received a land grant at Beverly, Mass., in 1636, which considerably narrows the probable date of his arrival.  William does not appear in any known New England records before 1643, but it seems likely he and Roger arrived together.  Roger died at Beverly, in 1667 and his will he gives 'to my sister Jone a heifer...' so we can surmise she was then in New England and perhaps married, though no marriage record survives." NEHGS Register, Volume 138, pages 225 - 226.

William Haskell, Jr., my 9th great grandfather, was born 8 November 1618 in Charlton Musgrave.  He settled in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1643 where he was a mariner.  He was a selectman for a few years and a representative to the General Court six times.  He became lieutenant of the militia in 1661, and later promoted to captain.  When the first church was settled at Gloucester he was one of the first two deacons chosen.  He married a Mary Tybott, whose father, Walter Tybott, followed Reverend Richard Blynman from Wales to Gloucester. They had nine children, and both William and Mary died in 1693 only four days apart.

Their son, Mark Haskell, my 8th great grandfather, married Elizabeth Giddings of Ipswich and had three children before he died young in 1691, age 33 years and 5 months. Elizabeth remarried to John Dennison. Her son, Mark Haskell, Jr., my 7th great grandfather, lived a long life to 87 years.  He married Martha Tuthill and had thirteen children!  Martha was the great granddaughter of Remember Allerton, a Mayflower passenger.  She passed away in 1763 and Mark took a second wife, Elizabeth Porter, in 1767, who had been widowed three times by Daniel Gilbert, Joseph Goodhue, and John Burnham (who was my 7th great grandfather with his first wife Anne Choate).  There was a lot of intermarriage in this branch of my family tree, don’t you think?

Lucy Haskell (1715 – 1789) is my 6th great grandmother.  She married Jabez Treadwell, a cooper from Ipswich, in 1736.  I own an original copy of Jabez’s will, written on old linen paper, and written in 1781.  Lucy and Jabez had eleven children, and I descend from their son Nathaniel Treadwell (1753 – 1822).  You can see this written last will and testament at this link:  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2009/10/jabez-treadwells-will.html

There is a great quote in the book Saga of Cape Ann, by Elliott Copeland & Melvin T. Rogers, 1960, page 135 “In the 18th Century, Bearskin Neck was the site of fishermen's shanties, boat building shops, stores which sold boat gear, bait, and clams, an old tavern, and the 'lean-to' where Wm. Haskell, who wore earrings and did up his hair on curl papers, sold home made ginger pop & molasses candy...."  I’d like to think that this was William Haskell (1618 – 1693), my 9th great grandfather, but I really don’t know which William Haskell this excerpt describes.

Some HASKELL sources:

Chronicles of the Haskell Family, by Ira J. Haskell, 1943, Ellis Printing Co., Lynn, MA

“John Stone: First Ferryman of Beverly, Mass and some of his descendants 1635 – 1900”, by James B. Stone in The Essex Genealogist, Volume 7, pages 67 - 70.

“English Origins of the Haskell Family”, by Winthrop Allison Haskell in the NEHGS Register, Volume 138, pages 225 - 226

Look at this wonderful HASKELL family tree I photographed at the New England Historic Genealogical Society (first floor near the elevator):  https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/02/haskell-family-tree.html 

My HASKELL genealogy:

Generation 1: William Haskell, born about 1578 in Charlton Musgrove, Somersetshire, England, and buried 11 May 1630 in Charlton Musgrove; married to Elinor Foule. Seven children.  Elinor remarried to John Stone.

Generation 2: William Haskell, baptized 8 November 1618 in Charlton Musgrove, died 20 August 1693 in Gloucester, Massachusetts; married on 6 November 1643 in Salem, Massachusetts to Mary Tybott, daughter of Walter Tybott, born 6 November 1628 in Chepstow, Wales and died 24 August 1693 in Gloucester.  Nine children.

Generation 3:  Mark Haskell, born 8 April 1658 in Gloucester, died 8 September 1691 in Gloucester; married on 16 December 1685 in Gloucester to Elizabeth Giddings, daughter of John Giddings and Sarah Alcock.  She was born about 1666 in Ipswich, and died 15 September 1725 in Gloucester. Three children.  Elizabeth remarried to John Dennison.

Generation 4:  Mark Haskell, born 16 September 1687 in Gloucester, died 25 August 1775 in Ipswich; married about 14 January 1710 in Gloucester to Martha Tuthill, daughter rof John Tuthill and Martha Ward.  She was born 21 November 1690 in Ipswich, and died 15 May 1763 in Ipswich.  Thirteen children.

Generation 5: Lucy Haskell, born 21 May 1715 in Gloucester, died 21 September 1769 in Ipswich; married on 20 November 1736 in Ipswich to Jabez Treadwell, son of Nathaniel Treadwell and Hannah Unknown.  He was born 9 August 1713 in Ipswich, and died 22 December 1780 in Ipswich.  Eleven children.

Generation 6:  Nathaniel Treadwell m. Mary Hovey
Generation 7:  Jabez Treadwell m. Betsey Jillings Homan
Generation 8:  Eliza Ann Treadwell m. Abijah Hitchings
Generation 9:  Abijah Franklin Hitchings m. Hannah Eliza Lewis
Generation 10:  Arthur Treadwell Hitchings m. Florence Etta Hoogerzeil
Generation 11:  Gertrude Matilda Hitchings m. Stanley Elmer Allen (my grandparents)

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, “Surname Saturday ~ HASKELL of Gloucester, Massachusetts”, Nutfield Genealogy, posted June 24, 2017, (http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2017/06/surname-saturday-haskell-of-gloucester.html: accessed [access date]). 

6 comments:

  1. Heather, I know we share several New England lines and the Haskells are one of them. They do, indeed, create a tangled tree. I am descended twice from William and Marie Tybbot through their son William and then daughter Lydia who married Ebenezer Parsons and through their son Mark and then son William who married Jemima Hubbard.

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  2. Hey Cuz.
    Captain William Haskell and Mary Tybott are my 8th great grandparents (3 times over, looks like).
    Their sons William and Deacon Joseph are my 7th great grandfathers (I'm only going to list direct ancestors).
    William married Mary Brown and had a daughter Sarah, my 6th great grandmother.
    Deacon Joseph married Mary Graves and had two sons, Daniel and Ebenezer, my 6th great grandfathers.
    Daniel Haskell married Sarah Haskell and had a son, Caleb, my 5th great grandfather.
    Ebenezer Haskell married Elizabeth Goodhue and had a daughter, Elizabeth, my 5th great grandmother.
    Caleb Haskell married Elizabeth Haskell and had a son, Caleb (4th great grandfather, Revolutionary War soldier, wrote a diary). Caleb was at Bunker Hill and marched with Arnold to Quebec.
    Caleb Jr. married Edna Hale - son Caleb (3rd ggf).
    Caleb III married Canadian Fanny Matilda Betts, daughter of American Loyalists Dr. Azor Betts and Glorianna (Purdy) Betts. Dr. Betts was originally from Connecticut, married Glorianna from New York, and had a medical practice in New York City. In January 1776, Dr. Betts was imprisoned by the New York Committee of Safety for cursing Congresses and Committees (called them a bunch of "damned rascals"). He was released after petitioning the Committee and apologizing (two months) and in May was imprisoned again for inoculating four Continental Army officers against smallpox (at their insistent request and against General Washington's orders - see: General Orders, 26 May 1776 [https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/03-04-02-0312]. After release (probably when the British fleet arrived in New York) he was Surgeon for the Queen's Rangers until Col. James DeLancey requested his services in DeLancey's Refugees (Cowboys). After the war he and his family emigrated to New Brunswick, Canada with the Spring Fleet of 1783.

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  3. Captain William and the next two generations lived in Gloucester. The first Caleb moved to Newbury/Newburyport and then the next three generations lived in Newburyport. My great great grandfather, George Whitfield Haskell, Jr. moved to South Paris, Maine, where the next two generations lived. I was born in Connecticut.
    George W. Haskell, Jr. married Alice Arminta Crockett who's father was Rosalvo Crockett, who married Esther Augusta Farrar, who was a direct descendent of John and Frances Farrar/Farrow, who had moved to Hingham, Massachusetts from Hingham, England in 1635. I think my ancestors went to church with Abe Lincoln's ancestors.

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    1. Actually, I have a common ancestor with Abraham Lincoln, so he's my 5th cousin five times removed. Another ancestor who landed at Hingham was William Arnold (10th ggf), father of Governor Benedict Arnold of Rhode Island and ancestor of the famous turncoat. William was also one of the twelve original founding members of the first Baptist church in America with Roger Williams

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  4. I'm sorry. I just noticed that my name is not on my comments. I'm Leslie Alan Haskell, son of Alan Stuart Haskell, son of Harold Arthur Haskell, son of George Whitfield Haskell, Jr.

    I've researched some of Roger Haskell's line. Roger was the brother of Captain William of Gloucester. One of his sons, John, married Patience Soule, daughter of George Soule, Mayflower passenger. George willed them some land down in Plymouth Colony. Another son, Mark (nicknamed "Witchcraft"), as the story goes, was called up for jury duty in the witch trials. Being a free-thinker and not believing in witchcraft or punishing people for it skipped town and rode all night down to Rochester, relatively near his brother John. There is a rock in Rochester called "Witch Rock". Some say it was called that because local Indians would perform ceremonies around it and some say it got it's name for being close to "Witchcraft" Mark's property. A descendant of Mark's, Colonel Elnathan Haskell was in the Revolutionary War and is pictured in John Trumbull's painting The Surrender of General Burgoyne, which is hanging in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda (the painting is in the photograph of Lectern Guy taken on January 6, 2020). After the war Elnathan moved to South Carolina. A few generations later there were seven Haskell brothers who all fought for the Confederacy. One was killed at Gettysburg, and another at Fort Wagner on the Coast (the movie Glory is about one of the regiments in the Federal assault on the fort). Two others rose to some prominence in the war and in post-war anti-reconstruction politics. Colonel John Cheves Haskell commanded an artillery battalion and led the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia to the surrender at Appomattox. After the surrender he rode with General Grant who wanted to buy his horse. Later he married the daughter of Wade Hampton III (General, Senator, Governor). His brother Alexander Cheves Haskell was commander of the 7th South Carolina Cavalry Regiment and led all of the ANV's cavalry to the surrender. He married the sister of General Edward Porter Alexander and after the war helped Wade Hampton become governor, earning an Associate Justice seat on the South Carolina Supreme Court. In 1890 he ran against Benjamin Tillman for governor (he lost). One of his daughters, Mary Elizabeth Haskell moved to Boston, went to Wellesley College, and became a teacher. She opened the Haskell School for Girls which eventually became the Cambridge School of Weston. She also met and became the financial benefactress of Kahlil Gibran (See the book Beloved Prophet).

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  5. Hi all,

    I'm Garry McCarthy. Like Leslie, I too am descended from the union of cousins Daniel Haskell and Sarah Haskel, only through their son Daniel Jr., my 6x GGF, and his son (with Hannah Johnson), Capt. Daniel Haskell, who married Ruth Adams. Their son, also named Daniel, married Fanny McIntire of Salem. Fanny was the 4th great-granddaughter of Philip McIntyre, a Scottish prisoner of war who was shipped to the colonies in 1650 after his capture at the battle of Dunbar. Their daughter, Frances Haskell (1810) is my 3x great-grandmother. I'm just getting started, as my family's colonial roots were only recently discovered. So much interesting history!

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