Mary Haskell (1684 - aft. 1705)

Born 4 Jul 1684 in Middleborough, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Died after 1705 after age 20 in Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

"Mary Haskall ye daughter of John Haskall was borne ye 4 July 1684" at Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[1]

There is a marriage recorded between a Mary Haskell and Scotto Clark of Harwich on Cape Cod on 17 APR 1706 at Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts. However, an article in The American Genealogist contains a thorough discussion of the children of John Haskell and Patience Soule^[2] in which the authors cast doubt on the marriage of John's daughter Mary Haskell to Scotto Clark. There were two Mary Haskells, approximately the same age, living in the neighboring towns of Middleborough and Rochester. The authors argue convincingly that the Mary Haskell who married Scotto Clark at Rochester was probably the daughter of Mark Haskell, not the daughter of John. They posit that John's daughter Mary died sometime between the death of her parents and the settlement of legal matters regarding the estate in 1709-1712.

The General Society of Mayflower Descendants no longer accepts that Scotto Clark's wife was Mary, the daughter of John Haskell.

Mary died after 1705 (suit).^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Vital Records of Middleborough, Mass. (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007), (Middleborough, Massachusetts Vital Records, Volumes 1 and 2. Edited by Barbara Lambert Merrick Alicia Crane Williams, Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, William S. Sullwold (Subscription required.) Vol. 1, Page 3
2. ↑ Robert S. Wakefield and Ruth Wilder Sherman, "The Children of John and Patience (Soule) Haskell", The American Genealogist. 57:77-81
3. ↑ George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. Originally compiled by John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry. Revised by Louise Walsh Throop. Mayflower Families in Progress. Seventh Edition. (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015.) p 14