Mark Haskell (bef. 1621 - bef. 1669)

Born before 8 Apr 1621 in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Woodbury) Haskell — married before 5 Jun 1663 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died before 16 Jan 1669 at about age 47 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Mark Haskell was baptized 6 or 8 April 1621 at Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England.^[1][2][3] He was the son of William Haskell and Elinor Foule,

On 26 April 1635, at age 14, Mark was apprenticed by the Overseers of the Poor for Charlton Musgrove to John Whiting, a broadweaver of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, for a period of nine years. The overseers were probably acting "in loco parentis" rather than alleviating a poverty case.^[4] See [#Research_Notes|Research Notes]].

Mark emigrated to America after 1644, when his apprenticeship ended, and before 30 September 1652, when "Marke Hoscall of Salem" was fined by the Salem Court for wearing "broad lace."^[5] At the time the laws of Salem stated that "no person whose estate did not exceed £200 should wear any great boots, gold or silver, lace, buttons, or silk hood, ribbons, or scarves under penalty of 10s."^[6] He settled in the Basse River section of Salem, Massachusetts and was a mariner by trade.^{[citation needed]} His name is not found much in written records, perhaps because he was often at sea.

Mark married Hannah (Woodbury) Patch,^[7][8]the widow of James Patch, between 1 : 9 : 1658 [1 November 1658] (date Patch will proved in court)^[9] and 5 June 1663 (she is "Hannah Haskell" in her father's will).^[10]

Mark Haskell died intestate before 30 March 1669 (court ordered administration) ^[11][12] and probably before 16:11:1668 [16 January 1668/9] (date estate debts were tallied).^[13][14][8] From the 30 March 1669 court record,^[15]

Marke Hascall dying intestate, court granted administration of the estate to Hanah Hascall, widow of Marke, who brought in an inventory amounting to £370 8s. 3d. Court ordered to the two children left, Wm. and Marke, £200, the eldest to have a double portion, and the rest of the estate to the widow Hanah Hascall. Ordered also that Mr. Edmund Batter, Wm. Hascall, Hugh Woodbury and Nicholas Woodbury be overseers.

From the published account of his estate inventory,^[16]

Inventory of the estate of Marke Haskell taken 27 : 11m : 1668 by Tho. Lowthroppe, Richard Brockens and John Hill: in money, 13 li. 6s. 3d. ; boots and shoos and stockins, 2 li. ; wearing cloathes, 11 li. 10s. ; wearing lining, 2 li. 4s. ; tow hats and one paire of gloves, 15s. ; one musket, towe blunderbuses, 2 li. 10s. ; thre remnants of woollen cloath, 9 li. 7s. ; one paire of stockens and one paire of gloves, 10s. ; six paire of sheetes and one of cotton, 5 li. 4s. ; lining clooth, 2 li. 1s. ; tableclooth and napkens, 16s. ; six pilowbeeres, 1 li. 4s. ; one bedd and furniture, 15 li. ; cuberd, table, chayres and chest, 8 li. ; towe bedds, Curtains and valances, 12 li. ; severall other things, 9 li. 13s. ; plate and puter and earthen weare, 9 li. 14s. 6d. ; brase and Iron, 8 li. 16s 6d. ; lumber & old Iron, 4 li. 7s. 6d. ; howse & ground, orchard and medow, 120 li. ; toe cowes and towe young beasts, 13 li. ; one mayre and coult, 5 li. ; thre sterse, 10 li. ; one bibell, 10s. ; total, 267 li. 8s. 3d. Ther is a ketch at sea to be apprised when it return. :Received in Ipswich court Mar. 30, 1669.

At Salem, 16 : 11 m : 1668, "an account of the debts of Marke Haskoll when he died : to John Budd of Long Iland, £7.; Trustrum hammett of Boston, £16 7s.; Mr. hamond of Charlestown, to be paid in silver, £ 7; Mr. Shrimton of Boston to be pd. in silver, £4.; Mr Gallupp, to be pd. in silver, £4. ; goodman Collins of Boston, 18s. ; Mr. Briggam of Boston, tanner, £1. ; Mr. Brown of Salem, £15.; his daughter-in-law, £7.; John Collins and the rest of his Company, £6.; Isaack Woodbery, £6.; Phillip Crumwell of Salem, £3. 4s 3d.; Mr. Gedney of Salem, 13s. 10d.; Mr. Woodcock, 7s.; Mr. Newman of Wenham, £1.; Captain Price of Salem, £1. 21s; Mr. Humber of Salem, £1. 7s.; Andrew Woodbery, 10s.; goodman Shadocke, 3s.; Jonathan Eager, 2s 6d.; his father-in-law, £1. 10s.; Thomas Serles, 18s.; John Dodg, 14s.; William Haskoll, £1.; Joseph Hascoll, 5s.; Thomas Chubb, 4s. ; John Woodbery, 2s.; Richard Stakhous, 2s, 9d.; total, £87." See Research Notes.

At Salem, on 24 March 1668/9, "The catch of Marke Haskall, apprised by Thomas Woodbery, William Hodge and Hugh Woodberre, at £140.; the earnings of the Catch, £50; the whole estate debts deducted is £370. 8s. 3d."

Family

Mark and Hannah had the following children:^[6][17][18]

1. William Haskell, died 11 August 1694; married 1688, Ruth West.
2. Mark Haskell, died May 1734; married 1695/6, Charity (Gale) Pittman.

Research Notes

Immigration. Citing "Descendants of Mark Haskell," published in The Haskell Journal, Issue 42, vol.11 #4 (Winter 1996) pg.765," profile reports he was apprenticed at England in 1635 and "emigrated to America after 1644."

What are the records and analysis in support of this claim? His mother is presumed to have married at Engand to John Stone, who was known of Salem, Massachusetts Bay by at least 1636. In the late 1637 Salem division of marsh and meadow, John Stone was granted one acre, for family of seven.^[19] This presumably includes John Stone, his two sons, wife Elinor, and John's Haskell stepchildren.^[20]

Occupation. Biography reports he was a mariner. How do we know that?

Death. Profile reports he was a mariner, and his death is not recorded in either the Salem or Beverly vital records. How do we know he died at Massachusetts Bay?

Daughter-in-Law. Among the estate debts is mention of amounts owed to his daughter-in-law. It is possible either he had another son who died before him without issue, or his wife's son from her previous marriage, or, as was common at the time, daughter-in-law could have referred to a step-daughter. Hannah had one son and two daughters by her first husband James Patch.^[6]

Of Ipswich? A footnote in Mary Walton Ferris' 1931 account of the William Woodbury family reads, "Mark Haskell, called of Ipswich, was probably the younger brother of William Haskell." For the association as William's brother, author cited ""Records and Files ... VI, 315," and "VI, 122, Essex Institute Historical Collections, XXXII, 134-7," and refers to "Dawes Gates Ancestral Lines, Vol. I."^[21]

New England Marriages prior to 1700. He is "Mark Haskel (?1621-1669?), she is Hannah (Woodbury) [Patch], works consulted as "Dawes-Gates 2:833[-34]; Reg. 71:168, 170, 100:72; Warren (,5) 60; EIHC 1:150; White-Haskell 41."^[22]

Haskell Journal. The Haskell Journal is "the official newletter of the Haskell Family Association"; issues are said available to dues-paying subscribers from a "Members only" section of the association website and FamilyHistory Libraries [Fiche 6047234 and Film 1878127, Item 4 (DGS 9064116)].

Sources

1. ↑ Citing "New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volume [86]," Ira J. Haskell, Chronicles of the Haskell Family (Lynn MA: Ellis Printing Co., 1943), 4; digital images, Hathi Trust.
2. ↑ Citing at least in part, records obtained by Mrs. Charles Frederick White from Col. Charles Edward Banks, June 1929, G. Andrews Moriarty, "Haskell," in "Miscellaneous Records of Various Families," in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 86 (1931):257; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; Mark, baptized 8 April 1621.
3. ↑ Marke Hascoll 1621 baptism, St. Stephen parish register, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England; parish register database, FreeReg; he is "Marke" baptized 8 April 1621, son of "Willia- Hascoll."
4. ↑ Howard V. Williams, "Richard Window, William Haskell and Subsequent Owners of a 1651 Grant of Land in the Walker Creek Valley, of West Gloucester, Massachusetts," The Haskell Journal, Issue 34, v.9, #2, Spring 1993, pg.560.
5. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1911–1989), 1:274; digital images, Hathi Trust; witnesses were Lt. Latrup and Roger Conant; court held at Salem.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} "Descendants of Mark Haskell," The Haskell Journal, Issue 42, vol.11 #4 (Winter 1996) pg.765.
7. ↑ G. Burton Bird, "Children of James and Hannah (Woodbury) Patch," in "Notes," New Engand Historical and Genealogical Register, 100 (1946):72; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1} "The English Background and First Generation." Haskell Journal, Issue 32, Vol. 8, #4, (Summer/Fall 1992) p.526; see separately, "The English Background" in Ira J. Haskell, Chronicles of the Haskell Family (Lynn, Mass., Ellis Printing Company, 1943), 1-8; digital images, Hathi Trust.
9. ↑ Citing "Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 4, leaf 65," George Francis Dow, ' The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 3 vols., 1:269-71; digital images, Hathi Trust
10. ↑ "Estate of William Woodbury of Salem," George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 3 vols., 3:140-41; digital images, Hathi Trust, citing Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 26, leaf 129."
11. ↑ Citing "Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, vol. 4, p. 122," "Patch," in "Genealogical Research in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 71 (1917):168, 170; digital images, Hathi Trust]; note, article identifies Hannah's first husband as her first cousin, a point later disproven, see Dearborn and Arthaud, "William¹ Woodbury of Salem ... ," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175:208 .
12. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols., (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1911–1989), 4:122; digital images, Hathi Trust; he is "Marke Hascall," adminstration granted to "Hanah Hascall, widow of Marke"; there are "two children left."
13. ↑ Mark Haskell 1669 probate papers, case 12770 (6 pp.), Essex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1638-1881; database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors; "Salem the 16th of the 11th month 1668: An account of the debts which Marke Haskell was [?mgaged] when he died" is page 12770:2 of the file.
14. ↑ "Estate of Mark Haskell of Beverly," citing "Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 91," and "Essex County Probate Files, Docket 12,770," George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 2:151-152; digital images, Hathi Trust.
15. ↑ George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 9 vols., (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1911–1989), 4:122; digital images, Hathi Trust.
16. ↑ "Estate of Mark Haskell of Beverly," citing "Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 91," and "Essex County Probate Files, Docket 12,770," George Francis Dow, The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem, Mass., Essex Institute, 1916-1920), 2:151-152; digital images, Hathi Trust.
17. ↑ Cited "Haskell Family Database ... database ... by Susan Haskell," but this link is no longer functional (leads to "haskellfamilyhistory.com" is for sale ...)
18. ↑ "Haskell Family in North America - Descendants of William Haskell and Elinor Foule." Online tree maintained by the Haskell Family Association, accessed 18 Mar 2018: profile #25.
19. ↑ Sidney Perley and Martha O. Howes, Town Records of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols. (Salem, Mass.: Essex Institute, 1868–1934), 1:101-104, in particular, 102; digital images, Hathi Trust.
20. ↑ Citing "STR 1:102,"Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S (2009), 552-53; digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
21. ↑ Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines ...," 2 vols, ([Milwaukee] Priv. print. [Wisconsin Cuneo Press] 1931-43 [v. 1, 1943]), 2: 834n; digital images, Hathi Trust.
22. ↑ New England Marriages to 1700 (2015), multiple vols., 2:714 (Haskell); database and digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.

See also:

• James Savage, "Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England." Boston, 1860-1862. Repository: University of Maine-Fogler Library.
• Walter Goodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Sarah Stone, Wife of James Patten of Arundel ... (Pages 3-4) Portland, ME: The Southworth Press, 1930, HathiTrust.org accessed October 21, 2015.
• David Curtis Dearborn and John Bradley Arthaud, "William¹ Woodbury of Salem and Beverly, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 175:208.