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- Sewell Haskell was a carpenter, joiner, millwright, and farmer.
He built schoolhouses for the British American Land Company in Scotstown and other locations in the Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada.
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Joined Masonic Lodge, Victoria No. 11, 1819, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Purchased pt. Lot 11, Range 6, Ascot Twp, Quebec, Canada, 25 acres, from Hezekiah Hancock, 02 Aug 1819 (Daniel Thomas, Notary). Sells this land to to Tyler H. Moore for 100 pounds, 30 Apr 1825 (No. 596, William Ritchie, Notary)
Purchased pt. Lot 18, Range 7, [Sherbrooke] Ascot Twp, Quebec, Canada, 4 acres, W. side of highway, from W. B. Felton for 5 shillings with 100 pound mortgage to C. T. Goodhue, 30 Apr 1825 (No. 595, William Ritchie, Notary)
Resided on Wellington St. in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada in 1826. (The highway mentioned above.)
Sewell Haskell, one of six men that accepted a donation of 2 acres, pt. Lot 11, Range 6, along the highway from Lennoxville to Compton, for a Protestant Episcopal church, from E. Elliott and W. Hunting, 08 Jan 1822. (Daniel Thomas, Notary) This became St James Protestant Episcopal church and cemetery in Lennoxville.
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Original pewholder at St James Protestant Episcopal church, 1822, Lennoxville, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. (Church floor plan from church archives; p. 7, Parish Anecdotes, St. James Church 1822-1845, St. George's Church 1845-1904, Bishop's University Old Library, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada)
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Superior Court, District of St. Francis, Quebec, Canada, Vol. 1: 1823-1834: Signatory to the following actions:
14 Jun 1826: (Sewell Haskell with David Moe) appointing Curator of the Estate of Gilbert Hyatt and Anna Canfield, and appointing tutor and subtutor for the three sons of Gilbert Hyatt.
08 Oct 1827: (Sewell Haskell with Benjamin Haskell) appointing tutor and tutrix for Ephraim and Harriet Hancock, nephew and niece of Ezekiel Elliott, children of Hezekiah Hancock of Ascot.
05 Apr 1828: (Sewell Haskell, carpenter, of Sherbrooke) petition of Susanna James, widow, appointing Curator for the estate of John James, and tutor and subtutor for his minor children.
31 Jan 1833: (Sewell Haskell) appointing Curator for the estate of William Hunting, tutor and tutrix of minor children.
18 May 1833: (Sewell Haskell, village of Sherbrooke, carpenter, with Benjamin Haskell, Ascot, yeoman) appointing tutor and subtutor for Ephraim and Harriet Hancock, since their tutor William Hunting had died.
02 Oct 1827: (Sewell Haskell with Benjamin Haskell) appointing tutor for William Hunting, since tutrix Betsey Hancock had died.
Vol. 3: 1841-1847:
02 Jun 1842: (Sewell Haskell) appointing tutors for children of Thomas Hughes: Eleanor, age 12 years; Mary Elizabeth, age 9 years, 3 months; Margaret, age 6 years, 2 months; Thomas, age 9 months. Court appointed Thomas Sleeper [maternal uncle].
13 Feb 1844: (Sewell Haskell) appointing tutor and tutrix of children of Hiram Abiff Amsden.
Purchased 40 acres in Beaver Dam Twp, Dodge, Wisconsin, from the U.S. Government Land Office at Green Bay, Wisconsin, 27 Aug 1846 for $50; patented 01 Feb 1848: The NW quarter of the SW quarter of Section 21, Township 12, Range 14. (This land currently crosses part of Wisconsin State Road 33 and McKinley Beach Road, generally northwest of their intersection, with the south portion being in the current city limits of Beaver Dam. Beaver Dam Lake is a quarter mile to the west. The northwest portion is part of a golf course. The homestead was probably in the northeast or southeast corner of the parcel, near Highway 33, which road appears on an 1860 township parcel map.) Another purchase of 80 acres in Section 23, Township 12, Range 14, on 25 Aug 1847 was not patented. GLO, Vol. 41
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The Dodge County Citizen (Beaver Dam, Wisconsin),
January 18, 1877:
DIED. HASKELL - Sunday, Jan. 14th, at the residence of his daughter, Mrs. Geo. G. Shaw, in the town of Fort Winnebago, Columbia Co., Wis., SEWELL HASKELL, in the 87th year of his age.
The deceased will be well remembered by old residents, as he moved to Beaver Dam with his family, in June 1847, and has resided in the state ever since, with the exception of about one year's residence in Iowa.
He was born in Chesterfield, N. H., Sept. 9th, 1790. Before becoming of age, he went to Malone, N. Y., where he learned his trade, that of carpenter and joiner. At the age of 24, he moved to Sherbrooke, Canada, at which place he resided until May 21st, 1847, when he started for Wisconsin; a son and daughter having taken up their residence here a year or so before, prompted him to move hither with the rest of his family.
Dec. 28 [sic] 1821, he married Miss Mary Moe, who provided a faithful and prudent helpmate, a devoted wife and mother, which whom he lived happily until 1856, when she died. There was born to him five children, 2 sons and 3 daughters, one of the daughters dying in infancy; four survive him - Wm. S. Haskell, in Helena, Montana, H. M. Haskell, in Maryland, Mrs. M. R. Manchester, of Biggs Station, Cal., and Mrs. Geo. G. Shaw, of Fort Winnebago, about five miles from Portage, besides Thos. Hughes, of this paper, who is his adopted son. Since the death of his wife, he has made his home, with the exception of about three years, with his daughter Mary, Mrs. Geo. G. Shaw.
He was made a Free and accepted Mason, in 1819, at least 57 years ago, and was, therefore, one of the oldest Masons in the state. His attachment to the order remained unabated to the last, one great consolation in his last illness being the recognition of a Master Mason.
In his case, the attaining of the age of nearly four score years and ten, is remarkable, as at the age of 30, he was supposed to be afflicted with consumption, and has suffered very much with various ailments and accidents since then, was a hard working man, and the tender and solicitous care he has received in his old age, can alone account for it. He was taken to bed from his final illness, on Thursday, Jan 4th, and died of old age, superinduced by dysentery, on the 14th inst., rational and uncomplaining to the last. He was a public spirited man, generous to a fault, and in all relations and circumstances, candid and outspoken. True to his friends and acquaintances, none will miss his council, fraternal regard and companionship, more than his surviving relatives, who, while deploring his demise, can but submit to "Him who doeth all things well."
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1790 - 1877 (86 years)
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