Tombstone Tuesday ~ Elizabeth (Goldsmith) (Quarles) Haskell, died 1765 Beverly, Massachusetts

This tombstone was photographed at the Abbott Hale Burying Ground in Beverly, Massachusetts

Here lies buried ye Body of

Mrs. ELIZABETH HASKELL

The wife of

Capt. ROBERT HASKELL

who died January ye 8th

1765.  Aged 77 Years

Elizabeth Goldsmith was born about 1688, the daughter of Zacheus Goldsmith and Mary Hutton of Wenham, Massachusetts.  She married first to Francis Quarles on 23 June 1715 in Beverly.  She married second to Robert Haskell in April 1735 in Ipswich ( marriage intentions filed in Beverly on 14 March 1724/5).  

Robert Haskell was born 17 February 1694 in Beverly, the son of William Haskell and Ruth West.  Ruth is my 8th great aunt, and I descend from her sister, Mary West (1676 - 1758) who married Robert Woodbury.   Robert Haskell was a Captain in the local militia, not a sea captain.  

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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "Tombstone Tuesday ~ Elizabeth (Goldsmith) (Quarles) Haskell, died 1765 Beverly, Massachusetts", Nutfield Genealogy, posted January 12, 2016 (  http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2016/01/tombstone-tuesday-elizabeth-goldsmith.html: accessed [access date]).