JoAnna (Hackett) Haskins (1739 - 1839)

Born Oct 1739 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of William Haskins — married Oct 1758 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 6 Nov 1839 at age 100 in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

JoAnna Hackett was born in October, 1739 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, daughter of Samuel Hackett (1714–1785) and Joanna Washburn (1693– ).

JoAnna (18) married William Haskins (18) (born on April 16, 1740 in Berkeley, Bristol County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Colony) in October, 1758 in Middleborough.^[1] Their daughter was Anna Haskins (1773–1864).

JoAnna died on November 6, 1839 in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, aged 99.

Research Notes

Note: New England Historical

Genealogical Register, Vol. 117. "The Identity of Joanna {she is a

HACKETT}, wife of William(5) Haskins and later of John(6) Eddy of New

Salem, MA" by Frederick C. Warner of No. Amherst, MA "The HOSKINS

Genealogist" compiled by Georege Ely Russell, no. 6. July 1959, p. 33

shows the ancestry of WILLIAM(1) HOSKINS of Plymouth, MA and his wife ANN

HINDS. The name was later spelled HASKINS.

The will of Wm. Haskins of New Salem, MA dated 1 Jan 1790-1 and probated

9 May 1798 bequearthed to wife Mary; to sons Joseph, Paul, GEORGE and

Shadrack the priviledge of "my blacksmith shop and tools"; to Anna Hoar

20 acres in Wendell, MA where her husband Shadrack Hoar lately lived; to

dau. Abigail Bradley's children; to dau. Hopestill King; to dau. Sarah

Booth's heirs "my right in a certain Island lying in a pond called Long

Pond in the town of MIDDLEBOROUGH in the County of Plymouth"; to grandson

Peter Achorn; to son Silias' children; to grandson GEORGE HASKINS; to

daughter-in-law JOANNA EDDY "the use and improvement of that place I

purchased of Jesse Thayer lying in New Salem during the term of her

natural life"; to grandson William Haskins "that place I bought of Jesse

Thayer after the decease of his Mother," he to pay his brother John 12

pounds and 20 shillings to each of his sisters; son Jonathan Executor

(Hampshire County Probate, vol. 20, pg. 188).

These records show that William(4) Haskins had a son who died before

1790, leaving a widow JOANNA, sons William and John and several daus.,

and that the WIDOW JOANNA had married again a man named EDDY. In her "The

EDDY Family in America", 1930, Pg. 167, Ruth S.D. EDDY shows that JOHN(6)

EDDY (Jabez5-4, Obadiah3, Samuel2, William1), born in Middleborough, MA

26 Nov 1733; married first, 6 Dec 1757, Ruth Hayford and secondly,

"before 1792, JOANNA HASKINS, a widow who died 6 Nov 1839, ae. 100 years,

1 month." But these {particular} records do not show the maiden name of

JOANNA (HASKINS) EDDY nor the given name of her HASKINS husband.

William(5) HASKINS born prob. in Berkley, MA about 1739; died in West

Point, N.Y., 11 July 1780; m. in Middleborough, MA in October 1758,

JOANNA HACKETT, b. abt. 1739, d. in New Salem, MA in Nov. 1839 ae. 100

yrs. 1 mo. She married 2nd in New Salem, MA in Dec. 1785, John(6) EDDY

who d. 24 Mar 1806 (U.S. Pension #W-14674). {W=Widow).

Wm(5) HASKINS of New Salem and Pelham, MA, enlisted as a private on 1 Sep

1775 for three years in the Continenal Army. His name appears in pay

accounts for service from 17 Jan 1777 to 31 Dec 1779 as a private in

Capt. Daniel Shay's Co., Col. Rufus Putnam's (5th) Reg., Cont. Army

(Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the Rev. War, vol. 7, pg. 372 (under

HARSKIN) [sic] pg. 456 (Under HASKINS).

On 4 Nov 1783 JOANNA HASKINS, widow, was appointed admin. of the estate

of Wm. HASKINS late of Pelham, deceased (Hampshire County Probate, Vol.

14, pg. 155).

On 22 June 1837 JOANNA EDDY of New Salem, aged 98 years, applied for a

pension on account of her former husband WILLIAM HASKINS, a blacksmith.

Among other things hertofore mentioned, she deposed that she m. HASKINS

in Middleborough Oct. 1758 and that she married again in New Salem Dec.

1785 JOHN EDDY, who d. 1806. JOANNA EDDY'S sister-in-law, MARY (Smith)

HASKINS, aged 96 yrs. (widow of Joseph Haskins, brother of William),

deposed that she knew WILLIAM HASKINS in Middleborough and that he

married there in Oct. 1758 JOANNA HACKETT of Middleborough who later m.

JOHN EDDY. JOANNA (HASKINS) EDDY'S daughter JOANNA, wife of EBENEZER

VAUGHN of New Salem also deposed.

On 28 April 1840 William Whitaker deposed that JOANNA EDDY, a pensioner

of the US, died in New Salem 6 Nov 1839 and that JOANNA VAUGHN of New

Salem, PHEBE DUTTON of Ludlow, MA (near Springfield, MA) and ANNA SHAW of

Prescott, MA were the only living children of the deceased (Franklin

County Probate #1439).

"THEREFORE, the wife of WILLIAM(5) HASKINS and JOHN(6) EDDY, both of New

Salem, was JOANNA HACKETT of Middleborough, MA.

It is believed JOANNA HACKETT was the daughter of SAMUEL HACKETT of

RAYNHAM, MA who m. in Bridgewater, MA 23 Sep 1736 JOANNA WASHBURN.

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHB5-MLZ : accessed 6 October 2015), William Jr. Haskins and Joanna Hackett, 30 Oct 1758; citing reference Roll3 P92 R4; FHL microfilm 945,014

Acknowledgments

• Profile Hackett-114 was created through the import of BDM7-7-11.ged on Jul 8, 2011 by Brian McCullough.