Nathaniel Haskell

1740 - 1816  (76 years)

• Name	Nathaniel Haskell  [1]
  Birth	29 Jun 1740	Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	13 Jul 1816	Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Burial	Central Cemetery, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I299	Descendants of William Hascall of Fontmell Magna (1490-1542)
  Last Modified	26 Mar 2024

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Haskell,   b. 27 Jun 1717, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. Bef 10 Dec 1746 (Age 29 years)
  Mother	Hannah Masters,   b. 8 May 1717, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. Jul 1796, Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	30 Nov 1738	Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 4, 5, 6]
  Family ID	F319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Edwards,   b. 11 Mar 1746, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 22 Aug 1817, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 71 years)
  Alt. Marriage	29 Jun 1763	Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 7]
  Marriage	29 Nov 1763	Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 4]
  Children	1. Elizabeth Haskell,   b. 30 Nov 1765, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 15 Jul 1809, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 43 years)   2. Hannah Haskell,   b. 1 Jan 1768, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 31 Dec 1814, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 46 years)   3. Anna Haskell,   b. 23 Aug 1770, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 24 Oct 1811, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 41 years)   4. Lydia Haskell,   b. 14 Sep 1772, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. [died young]   5. Capt. Nathaniel Haskell,   b. 26 Sep 1774, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. 8 Mar 1853, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 78 years)   6. Daniel Haskell,   b. 26 Mar 1777, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. 1800, Lost at sea (Age 22 years)   7. Captain Samuel Haskell,   b. 15 Jun 1779, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. 28 Aug 1829, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 50 years)   8. Joseph Haskell,   b. Bef 20 Jun 1779, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 12 Oct 1779, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 0 years)   9. Abigail Haskell,   b. Bef 10 Oct 1784, Manchester, Essex, Massachusetts d. 28 Aug 1810 (Age 25 years)   10. Sophia Haskell,   b. Abt Apr 1791, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts d. 17 May 1791, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F330	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jun 2017

  
  

• Photos		Nathaniel Haskell (1740-1816) Nathaniel Haskell headstone, Central Cemetery, Beverly, MA
  		Nathaniel Haskell (1740-1816)

  
  

  Documents		Haskells Who Marched to the Alarm - April 19, 1775
  		Nathaniel Haskell

  
  

• Notes

  A tax record in Beverly dated 5 February 1760 provides an interesting clue about his childhood. Capt. Robert Haskell had part of his 1759 taxes abated with the explanation that Nathaniel Haskell had moved to Manchester the previous March. Families paid a poll tax on the adult men in their household, so it is likely that Nathaniel was living with him. However, he was only 19 for the better part of 1759. Circumstantial evidence indicates that Nathaniel's father died about 1746. Capt. Robert was surely Nathaniel's grandfather, who certainly had the financial means to keep his three grandsons. Why Nathaniel was moving back to Manchester (Capt. Robert lived in Beverly) is hard to determine, given that he was only 18 the previous year. No other Nathaniel could fit in this scenario. The record continues to be cryptic in saying that "half of poll of Haskell he being a crippell." Perhaps this is a reference to Robert, who was about 67. This is all the more plausible given that Nathaniel and his brother Benjamin were privates in Capt. Andrew Marsters' company of Minutemen in the Revolution, mustered at Medford, which marched to Concord 19 April 1775 when the alarm of the battle there went out. They were out three days and returned when the British retreated. They probably didn't engage with the enemy, however. He also served for 4 weeks of billeting (perhaps a description of a record of soldiers' quartering) while in Capt. Joseph Whipple's company, raised in defense of the Massachusetts coast. They received payment on 27 September 1775. Andrew Marsters may have been his uncle. Ten years earlier he was chosen to serve on an inferior court jury. He served the Town of Manchester as a hogreave with (his brother?) Benjamin on 7 March 1774, further suggesting he wasn't disabled, but it was possible for men to serve in the Army and to function relatively normally with certain disabilities that would have been considered "crippling" at that time. He and his family apparently moved back to Beverly, MA, between March and September of 1774 since Nathaniel, Jr.'s, birth is recorded in Beverly, while all previous children were recorded at Manchester. Nathaniel, Jr., was baptized in Manchester, suggesting the family hadn't yet transferred their membership yet to the Beverly church. Muster roles for his service in the war don't specify his hometown, but another tax record in Beverly says that he was abated his "soldier tax" for 1777, "he Being in the Continental Army." He had also been overtaxed 12 shillings for his personal estate by mistake. He died of dropsy, which is "an acute condition of fluidal swelling at the connective tissues." He and Elizabeth are buried in Hale St. Cemetery, Beverly. Their stones, carved by the shop of Benjamin Day of Lowell, were ordered at the same time and paid for (cost 27.68 lbs for "two pairs," indicating head and footstones) in January 1818, which is apparently recorded in Nathaniel's probate file. The above is provided courtesy of Doug Sinclair Reference to the Website: Doug Sincair's Archive http://dougsinclairsarchives.com/index.htm _____ Nathaniel is shown on receipt dated Manchester, 19 September 1775; Captain J. Whipple's company for advance pay for 1 month, received of Michel Farley, Muster Master and Paymaster of men raised in Manchester for defense of seacoast in Essex County; private in Captain J. Whipple's company, enlisted 13 July and served until 31 December 1776. Nathaniel, of Manchester, was a private in Captain Andrew Marster's company that marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, to Medford, service 3 days. He is also shown on a receipt dated Manchester, September 7, 1775, signed by said Haskell and other's belonging to Captain Joseph Whipple's company, for 4 weeks billeting, received of Michael Farley, Muster Master and Pay master of men raised in Manchester for defense of seacoast in Essex County. Reference The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2 Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004 Pages 54, 74 _____ On Secember 22, 1767, at the Manchester town meeting, "Nathll Haskell" was chosen to serve on the Jury of Trials at the next Inferior Court to be held at Salem. On March 7, 1774, "Nathaniel Harskel and Benja Harskel were chosen for Hog-Reves." Reference Colonial and Revolutionary Lineages of America The American Historical Company Inc., New York, 1941

  
  

• Sources

  [S43685] Vital Records of Manchester, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. [S27358] Genealogy of the descendants of Mark Haskell and Hannah Woodbury, (compiled by Marion S. Anderson for the Haskell Family Association). [S8940] Cemetery index, Central Cemetery, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, (Find-a-Grave). [S43848] Brøderbund Software, Inc., World Family Tree Vol. 15, Ed. 1, (Release date: November 20, 1997), Tree #1346 (Reliability: 0). Date of Import: Feb 1, 2000 [S43628] Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. [S43285] RootsWeb.com, Woodbury Family. [S52690] Ancestor chart of Hope Haskell Jones and family records, (compiled by Hope Haskell Jones for the Haskell Family Association).