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- Samuel, shown on a receipt dated Worcester, June 10, 1782, for bounty paid said Haskell by Captain Jonathan Houghton, Chairman of Class No.1 of the town of Boston to serve in the Continental Army for the term of 3 years.
Also served as a private in Captain Japhet Daniel's company, Lieutenant Colonel Calvin Smith's (6th) regiment; return for wages; wages allowed said Haskell from June 6, 1782, to December 31, 1782, six months and 25 days.
Reference
The Haskell Family in the Armed Forces, Volume 2
Editor: Peter P. Haskell, 2004
Page 76
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Revolutionary War pension file, Samuel Haskell, file 13253
Samuel applied for a pension in 1832. The pension file contains an extensive and rambling testimony to qualify for a pension. From this application, we can extract significant events in Samuel Haskell’s life.
In the fall of 1781, at the age of 16, Samuel enlisted for six months for Harvard, Massachusetts in a regiment under Lieutenant Colonel Turner. This unit was assigned to relieve the French troops in Newport. These troops joined Washington on the march to York, which culminated in the surrender of General Cornwallis on October 19, 1781.
In the spring of 1782 he enlisted for three years and was assigned to the 1st Company, 9th Regiment, 3rd Brigade, called Michael Jackson’s Regiment and Henry Jackson’s Brigade. The command of the regiment was turned over to Lieutenant Colonel Smith. He was stationed at Nelson’s Point, opposite West Point. Late that summer, their encampment was at Verplanck Point, where General Washington concentrated the greater part of the Army. In November 1782, winter quarters were made near New Windsor, with shelter now consisting of cedar huts.
In April 1783, General Washington announced the cessation of hostilities and the discharge of the “During War” men. The ten Massachusetts Regiments were reduced to 6 with Samuel assigned to the 1st Company, 6th Regiment with Colonel Tupper in command, and his son Louis Tupper as adjutant. In the early part of the summer of 1783, quarters were moved to West Point.
During that summer Samuel’s Division, under the command of General Howe, marched to Philadelphia to quell a riot of some of the discharged soldiers who were encamped south of Claypoles Hill, 3 miles from town. They had attempted to break into a Bank in Philadelphia. The unit returned to West Point in November. On November 25, Samuel accompanied a number of officers to New York to witness the embarkation of the British Troops from New York. The Army engineers provided a grand display of fireworks. Samuel remained in New York for several days witnessing the celebration.
The unit remained at West Point through the winter. In the spring of 1784, the troops were discharged, excepting a sufficient number to compose one regiment, called the American Regiment, under the command of Major Caleb Gable. In October 1784, Samuel was discharged when the regiment was reduced to one Company in charge of the arsenal and military store.
Samuel attended Phillips Academy, Andover, near Boston in 1785 and entered Yale in September 1786 and graduated in 1790. In 1795 he was ordained a Protestant Episcopal Presbyterian minister. His ministry was in Westchester county New York where his congregation was full of Torry sympathizers.
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