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HASKELL JOURNAL'

f\ Monthly Magazine

VoL r. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.JANUARY, 1898. No. r -(/

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Announcement,

Dudley H. Haskell, . -

The Haskell Arms. W. G. H.,

Carmel, -

Personal History. E. W. H.,

American Hasfeells! U. G. H.,

Editorials, ....

Genealogy !of R. R. Haskell, -

American Parisians,

Charles IT., EU B. and Charles S. Genealogy,

The Haskell Arms,

Our Ancestor's Trials, -

The Coat of Arms,

The History and Genealogy, -

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1830695 HE £00 HASKELLS )k in California : : ff ought to buy of
C. L. Haskell,
	Wholesale andJRetail Dealer
	-vC Harness, Bridles,

\ji' ",.| Spurs, Saddles,

II Whips, BIonKets.

511 MARKET J>TREET, San Francisco

Telephone Black 381.

Qfie 6est place io live in is California.

. HASKELL,

Counselor and Consulting -^2"" Attorney at Law On Land Matters.

Also connected with and agent of the

California Woolen Mills

OFFICE

20 SANSOME ST., SAN FRANCISCO

Consultation and advirc on all matters pertaining to Railroad and Mineral Lands in California and Nevada. For twenty-five years Townsite and Right-of- way agent for the Central Pacific Railroad Company and other companies con- nected therewith.

D. H. HASKELL; 20 Sansome St., San Francisco, Cal.

Telephone Clay 71

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HASKELL JOURNAL

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ANNOUNCEMENT.

This Journal is sent to you with the re- quest that you forthwith send your subscrip- tion to it. The further request is made thai you Till out the blanks found enclosed herewith giving in detail all of the facts that you can obtain concerning your gen- ealogy. A still more urgent request-is that you send to us the name of overs Haskell acquaintanceship, either,«by birth, blood, or marriage, that we i them a sample copy of this Journal.

The reasons tor this publication, its neces sity, and its pertinency, will be found else- where stated.

In addressing you now, we have not to for the appearance of I n\i„ but to merely state the reasons that in our opinion have made it a necessity.

Over one thousand years ago the first of our name of whom written history speaks, sailed in his frail undecked hark from North- land to England's shores. N'"t ovei blue waters, nor under soft and tender skies with purple sails and roses twining around his mast, did he go; ' open boat

with sails of skin, through icy seas, with sword on thigh, from land of ice, he fought his way to Britan's shore.

His descendants, Ironsides under Crom- well, following his example, came among the earliest, still westerly to America, and it remains for their successors here upon the verge of the uttermost West, close to the Orient, to say to the five thousand of our name in this splendid Republic that the time has come when the glories, the honors, the of forty generations ol the Haskell family, embracing over a thousand recorded time, should he the common herit- v tv niie within whose v ins flows a drop of that old Viking blood.

Not that by recording our family history and telling the deeds of our ancestors and breeding a pride of birth and of family, we are the less democrats and republicans. On the Contrary, the pride of birth, the pride of home, the pride of family ought to and must join together in building up a lose and ador- ation for the nation as a whole.

A mere dog. a horse, yes, even a cat is sold in the markets by its pedigree and it is ab- surd to saj that human beings have not

racial characteristics am! hereditary im

pulses. h'or instance, so remarkable is the Haskell type that when in San braneisoo twenty of us assembled together, never hav- ing met before personally, we could have pas^d fur brothers although separated by generations of kil

It is a fact that the Haskell famil; stalwart, Sober, silent, as it is and lias been tor centuries, can trace its ancestry, am! can prove it in a cunt of law, for more than "lie thousand years. And this tile Queen of England cannot do.

There have been no mong us

but there have been tllful, and

honest men and women, from the til

the Saxon Bishop bearded his King in favorofthe Wittegemote, from the time when Roget de Heiskell at the battle of 3, through a storm of arrows brought a refreshing .apple to William the Norman, from the time Ordegar Haskell trained with Cromwell's Ironsides on the fensof Lincoln- shire, from the time when Surrey Haskell flashed his sword for Prince Charles, from the time when William, Mark and Roger landed at Salem in 1632, from the time when George Washington in his personal letter complimented Prince 1! iski II foi his courage in the Revolution, from that time to this there has been no blot upon our re no shame or disgrace attached to our name.

It is a name to be proud of, it is a name to cherish, its history ought to be familiar to every Haskell and in every detail.

The five thousand of us in this country are brothers in I ild stand or fall

together. Ivvery one of us who has a child should teach that child the splendid of our race. It is nut .n ennobled 1 though its bio,,,! has been allied with that of kings and princes in the past. Put it is a brave, honest, simple, sturdy people; an intelligent race that knows and has pre- served, its own history, and it is well children to know this.

So ■numerous now are our p onerous the duty of responding to '

inquiries addressed yearly to 'the editors upon family matters, that no way has seemed possible to satisfy what appears to be a general family demand except the publication of this Jm i:n\i.. Every member n| the Haskell famil v. and all who h

A S K I •; 1 . 1 . JOURNAL.

in them the Haskell blood should secure and keep every issue of this, their family record. In the beginning of last century Masonry spread its network throughout the civilized world, and mightily assisted the struggle of mankind toward liberty. Today a thousand societies based upon a mere financial benefit bloom and flourish, binding together the members of a common race into a species of fraternity. Hut we here in this country, this magnificent Republic, numbering live thousand souls the grandchildren of those heroic old pioneers who braved the stom

way when there was still a virgin finest around Plymouth rock, shall we, bound to- gether by the veritable tics of blood, shall we, in whose veins still circulates the ichor of those men of iron, shall we, their descend- ants, not now rally beneath our own (lag, and however widely we may be separated, from Salem to San Francisco, become one family, one blood, one society, one brother- hood, cousins, brothers, and friends?

The mission of this JOURNAL is to accom- plish such an object and such a purpose.

We are powerless without your assistance.

And we need the assistance, the help, and the active support of every member of the Haskell family in the United States.

Send us the name and address of every person of the Haskell name and blood so that we may mail them copies of the JOURNAL.

It is urged that every person who receives a copy of this paper will immediately till out with the utmost possible detail the blank enclosed and mail it to the editor of the Journal. The sooner the scattered threads of the present generation are gathered and connected and placed in print and sooner it will be possible to construct a complete his- tory of the family in America.

The editor of the JOURNAL invites from members of the Haskell family brief histories

well that all newspaper clippings whether good or ill be sent to him to be published as matters of current news. Correspondence upon all matters of interest to the family is respectfully solicited.

It is suggested that in the large places some one person of those who receive this JOURNAL should take it upon themselves to call a meeting of the Haskells in that vic- inage and should thereupon organize a branch of the Haskell Club upon the lines laid down in this issue. A number of this paper goes to every Haskell named in the current directories of the cities of the Union

so that the organization of the club will be but little trouble. You yourself have simply to consult your own d'irei tory and call a meeting of the people therein named. Will von do it, and do it at once5 When Mich club is formed the Journal would be pleased

to have you select some one member as a special correspondent of the JOURNAL from youi locality.

We are satisfied that the interest is so gen- eral in this matter that we ought to In- able to announce in our next issue the formation of and the officers and membership of man >' of these suggested clubs.

The Journal is preparing to print in col- ors and with proper heraldric embellishments with mantlings, supporters, and mottoes, a

plate suitable tor framing, of the arms and crest of the Haskell family. The one printed in this issue is merely a rough engraving in black of the arms and crest. The Journal will also be prepared to furnish at cost to the members steel dies of arms and crest for s'ationarv.

Among other things the Journal will print views of the old homesteads 'of the family in America, of their habitat in V ranee, and of Rowlstone Castle on b'.scley Brook in Hereford, England, their ancient seat.

The last pages of this issue of the Journal are designed to be detatched and bound, and will when completed form a eontinuous his- tory of the family and every branch and per- son of it from the earliest day to the present time. Within its pages commencing with the February or March issue will be printed two old manuscript rolls dated 1590 and 1720 giving the ancient history of our race. They will be printed in fac simile of the ancient text with an appended translation, and the colors and illustrations of the original manu- script will be religiously observed. No Has- kell can afford to be without every issue of the lot its \i. fnnn number one until this his- tory" is complete. The work ot publishing the history of the family and the expense attending it would be too enormous loi any private individual to handle with any hope of a profitable return. The price of the mat- ter if published as a single work at once would be beyond the means of most of tis but through the medium of this JOURNAL and by publishing the matter in installments for a nominal price every member of our race- can secure a copy. The price of the JOURNAL is placed at the lowest possible margin to pay expenses and it is urged upon you who receive this number, that you yourself remit your subscription price aloncc and in- duce every other Haskell that you know of to do the same.

THE HASKEI

JOURNAL.

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HAINF.S HASKFXL

(From the S. P. Daily Examiner, Dec. 8, 1S97.) "The formal announcement has been made of the wedding of John Charles Adams of Oakland and Miss Ernestine Shannon Has- kell «>t San Francisco, to take place at St. Luke's Church, San Francisco, on Thursday evening, the r6th of December. The an- nouncement, while not unexpected, has at- tracted no small amount of attention in the social set about the bay. John C. Adams is one of the heirs to the rich Adams estate in Oakland and a one-third owner in two banks, n large amount of wharfage and water-front property, incorporated under the name of the California Development Company, and a lot of real estate, lie is a graduate of Vale and a member of the University Club of San Francisco. Miss Ernestine Shannon Haskell is the daughter Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Haines Haskell of San Francisco. She is a graduate of the Van Ness Seminary and the Hamelin School and is highly accomplished. Her father was formerly an attorney for the Southern Pacific Company and is now with the California Woolen Mills.''

[From the S. F. Call, Dec. 17. 1897.]

St. Mike's was crowded with a large and fashion

able audience last evening that had assembled ti

witness the nuptials of .Miss Ernestine Mi. hup 1

Haskell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Hainei

Hsskell, and John Charles Adams, the well-known Oakland banker.

'riit.-oiTi.mMnv was celebrated al S:io, o'clock, Rev. Or. Morelan'd officiating.

The biide was alien. Id by seven bridesmaids, the Misses Marv and Ktliel Whitncvof Oakland, the Misses Agnes and I'crnald Bell, Miss Agnes Simpson and the Misses Bessie and Geraldine Scapham of Oakland.

Kdsom Adams brother of the groom, 0 as best man, and the ushers were Sam Bell McKee, I.augdon Fastou. George V. Hind, Albert Avres, Sidney M. Van Wyck, Will Powning and M. Saton Ashe.'

After the ceremonv there wasa reception iorthe

parlies al the residence of the bride's parents, at Lhe

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Webster

The bride wore an elegant gown of white moire velours. I'he long-trained skirl was finished with a ruche of chiffon. The corsage was cut straight 1 1 s the shoulders and finished with ,1 fl deep old pomi. A veil and wreath of • itural orange blossoms completed the elegant costume.

The bridesmaids were attired alike in white organdie over white silk- and green silk. The Misses I-thel Whitney, Marv Whitnev, Agnes Simpson and 1'ernald Bell wore the rose and white gowns, and the other young ladies were in green and white. The bridesmaids were all blondes, and in their dainty costumes made a most charmiug picture slowly ]>re- ccding the lovely bride as she marched to the altar.

F.ach bridesmaid received from the bride a tiny ■: igger stick). in as a souvenir of the happy

Mr. and Mrs Adams will leave toda> for an Fast- en! wedding tour, and may possibly taking a living

trip to Fun .pe before their return.

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THE HASKELL ARMS.

Some Interesting Letters Cu Origin and a Bit ol Vi

Apropos l:

Lewiston, Maine, September 20, 1a niette (7. Haskell, I : Sir: Your most welcome favoi ol tli me i" hand last evening. If inj lasi tny degree acceptable to you— I almost

The Editor of the Journal has been en- gaged for nearly twenty-five yearsin collect- ing the data, which it was absolutely necessary to accumulate in order to make any publication ol the Haskell history and genealogy a success. Among somewhere near ten thousand letters received, were the following ones from the Reverend William Garrison Haskell, Pastor of the Bates street Universalist Church, Lewiston, Maine.

These letters, together with the rhyme referred to, follow:

Lewiston, Maine, Septenibct 2, [878, Burnelte C. Haskell, list]., San Francisco, 1 a/.

Dear Sir: Yours of 22nd ult., with accompanying blanks, was received on Saturday. I will gladly give m\ personal attention to the distribution ol the blanks, and will trv and place them "where they will do the in' st goi d."

I do mt know it I told you in my former letter that much material svas secured, some years ago, for a genealogical record of our family. I did a large amount ol ssoik for it, at the instance of an old gen- tleman—a resident ol Boston- Charles Haskell by name. He had, 1 shi uld think, 800 or 1000 pages of fool-cap MSS., and was still pushing his investiga- tions, as long as '61 or '<>_>. During my absence in the arms, lie died, and my utmost endeavors to linil trace of those MSS. were unavailing. Much of lus matter had reference to such historical facts in rela- tion to the family as ci uld be obtained in England.

I seriousl) contemplated making a proposition to a few of our wealth v New ICngland Haskells, to make a subscription and send some one of the family to foi the purp ise ul collating such matter as could be gathered. The one or two to whom I men- tioned it were favorably impressed with the sugges- tion, and there was a disposition on their part to make me their representative for that purpose. Hut the failing health of my wile, and the necessarily constant devotion to her, absorbing mv time and thought, the matter fell through, and nu one has seemed to take up the responsibility.

1 notice upon your envelope the Haskell crest. But it has besides the 'apple tree fructiferous," which I have found in "Fairbairn" and one or two other Heraldric Cronicles, the displayed anus. Can you tell me the authority for this attachment? I know the legend, with which I suppose you are

certainly appropriately displayed, it the h end hi true. Will yen also tell me where 5 ou found the nu tto? It is not clearly impressed OH your envelope . but as nearly as I can make it out it reads "Graguer honle, aymer loyaute."

'Cragnez honle, aywez loyaute" (Norman French.)

Is it ancient French or Norman? And where did you find it.' You see 1 am at least a

curious Haskell. I long ago thought ol having the .rest engraved; but 1 couldn't find the motto; and it seemed incomplete without it. Pardon my impor- tunity m tins regard but since you have taken so active an interest 111 the family history . a similar in- terest by me will, 1 fancy, be appreciated.

It in any way I can render you further assistance, I beg that you will command my services.

May I ask troni what branch of the family you are iles, ended.' And whether my father's cousin, Major Leouidas Haskell, for some years a resident ol San Francisco, was a relative.

Yours very truly,

William Garrison IIAskki.i..

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aking than in 'inheriting "gen-

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most certainly apply i" determ-

ine

Your letter and especially the "anus" which sou were so thoughtfully kind as to send to mi , 1 onfirm 11, m\ own hi lief, at [< ai t. the tradition < urn 11 1 iii our family; that we are "well derived." I am but indifferently acquainted with heraldry. But there

afford something in evidence of the quality ol our "strain." I almost hesitate to name them, because you are doubtless already familiar with them. Hut I do KO at a venture, inasmuch as '.scare both Haskells.

First, then, the escutcheon itself is Norman "L'ancien ecu," as the French name it. It is per- haps a trifle— this matter of form of the shield— but it has a meaning well indicated l>\ "L'ancien."

Second. Its field is vair 01 fur. If my memory serves me— I base no access as I write to any work on heraldry— vair 1- derived from the fur with which the robes of only nobles, or nobles and knights were lined.

Third. The colors— argent and sable— are those ol such as had rendered the bearers noteworthy, the combination indicating unblemished reputation, (I have just bethought me ol the [encyclopedia. I find its article '-Heraldry" confirms what I have written I With Gerald Leigh for authority, "Argent com- pounded with Sable, means the > ielding 11 lire." "Sable, the ancieutest anion- colors, com- pounded with Argent it means famous."

Fourth. It is without charge or device. Anciently, we know it was the opinion that Mich were of highest honor: not as Leigh says of a "field" full ol charge, but empty of honor.

Fifth, it bears the "fesse or." The fesse.oi w ust- belt of honor, was, as is well known, one ol the in-

tainly at least imply that the bearer was a knight of no mean power and wealth.

Ms impression is that the 'Shield 111 pretence,

gules," was the Lies] arms, thus borne as warranted

to "the husband of an heiress," carried on the rolls of 15110, but in the Surrey (1720) description,' left out as not appertaining distinctly to the Haskell family. 'I 1, . is the I' gi nd - f the crest 1 1 do not distinctly reiuembei from whom 1 received it, but I think from the now deceased I h rh II ell ol Bosh n 1 \l the battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror, being faint from lack of food, saw 111 the distance, near the linesol Harold, an apple tree iii fruit. Expressing his belief that one 01 twool the apples weld revive him until the fortunes of the day should I one of his attendants (probabl) a knight) Roger or Rogetde lleiskel byname, dashed forward and amid a showi 1 ol the enemy's arrows si to his sovereign a scarl filled with the fruit, where- upon the Coiiqiu roi h ah him li crest,

ing apple tree, crossed or pierced by a Using • irross I do not recall whether the legend represents the knight as mortally wounded; yet I have a vague impress,,,,, that so it ran. li so. the "Fidelea Mort ' would seem appropriate. To be sure, one can build little upon these legends; but the season ol the year when the Conqueror met and ovtrcome Harold was certainly "apple-time," and there is no inherent mi- Mr . I h irles Haskell was, in the truth of the legend. 1

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had strong grounds for his belief, for, mucli like all Hie Haskels I have known, he wanted "a reason ror the hope that was in him," I think he must have had a copy of the eoal-uf-arms, and only marvel that he- nevei showed it to me, il he had.

I remember that I was conversing with him at one lime, shortly after I had read an article on Heraldry in some magazine, the article meutioning particu- larly i liit many families in America had assumed Ihe arms and crests ol some noble or knight wliosv uauu- they bore, but from whom thei were not descended, and to which of course the) werewo/ entitled. The old gentleman replied to one of inj questions, "Yes' but vou see even/ Haskell has a right to this crest, (naturally also the anus) for there was but one Has- kell (lleiskel, or possibl) even Hascalle) to win it, and ' . ■ we are si I fr mi him."

So m in) years hav c y.\- scd since I sit about gath- ering what facts I could, in relation to the family, and the most of my labor has been spent in corre- spondence and personal interviews with New Eng- land (and especially Massachusetts! Haskells, that the little I recall is mostly ol local nature, and does nol reach very fni back. That and more you will doubtless gather from your blanks.

I am glad you mean to delay publication until you have as nearly a complete record as ma) be possible. And will you permit— 1 am sure you will— a sugges- tion or two. I do not know you— save by correspon- dence—and so of course know nothing "I your means for carrying forward the weak you have undertaken. It is not common, I know, for Haskells to "begin to build without counting the cost.'' But this I know- that the publication of anything like a complete genealogy cannot be undertaken except at a very considerable expense. Now. the Haskells of the East,

though few Of them as far as 1 know are wealthy, are rarely poor; and 1 feel sure that not a few of them would gladly hear a part ot the expense of pre] aring and publishing the work you haw in hand. Might it not be well then— you are of course the bet- ter judge.— to ask of those who can afTurd to do so, to forward you a sum proportionate to their estimate of the worth (to them) of the work?

Then— though this may he rather late — might it not l.e well to record what has become of female Has- kells, i.e. into what families they have married?

1 enter with no small degree of enthusiasm into your project, and I beg to assure that it will l.e re- garded as a privilege il I may be permitted to assist you in any possible way in my power. My pastoral ■ us you perhaps know, I am a clergyman) dots not so fully occupy my time that 1 cannot spare many hours or even days, for work of this sort. Were it possible for me to afford the expense, 1 should certainly visit in person, a number of Haskells in this Mate, and elsewhere in New England; for we are along-lived race, (I hear of one Haskell in Knox, this Mate, who is i,5 soars ,.| age), and it can lintiU)

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sion ol valuable information regarding But I am doing what I may by correspoi

I receive more of the blanks I shall pr. to send you a goodly number of tin filled, as | am almost dail) hearing of s before unknown to me. "

Anything further that I may be able to do for you, 1 beg' you will feel perfectly free to ask.

Yours very truly, \Y. G iRRISON II ISKEM.. !'. S. The Major Leonidas Haskell of whom 1 spoke in my last letter, as formerly of San Francisco, has been dead some sis. ir more years.

\V. G. H. Lewiston, Maine, January to, 1879. Burnette G. Haskell, San Francisco, Cal. My Dear Sue Yours Dec. 29th was received on

just as] was leasing home for a day or 1 take great pleasure in replying at my earliest convenience.

So there is a poem, explaining the origin (?) of the

arms. But I quite agree with you that the legend should be taken "cum grano salis" in fact, 'with several grains. Asyousuggest.no name is given the Crusading hero, and lor aught we know, he may have been the original John Smith. A vague, but oni\ a vague hint of his time scenis'to be contained in the line

"Brought Godfrey and his royal train," locating it near the close of the nth or early in the [2th century. But the

"Sweet silver hells on sable shield," though decidedly pretty in poetry, is a little wide of truth, and seems to indicate that the iliwuestcr had devoted hut little attention to heraldry. The arms

are not bells at all. The) are vair— fur— taking their shape from the glass \esscl m which the furriers were used to whiten furs. At least, so says excellent heraldic authority. It's a pity to spoil a iieal bit ..I romance; but I'm afraid we shall have to look else- where to discover the true origin ..f the emblazon- ment. Perhaps the apple tree origin of the crest

Let's keep a little romance in the history, somehow "Our girls" will want it by and by.

Can you tell me why vour engraver has crowned the shield, ill the "anus" heading your letter-sheet, with an esquire's helmet? Dosen't ' Carmel" say that the "noble sire" (possibly John Smith 1 "plied well his sword with knightly fire?" Surely an her- ald:.- . ne i.uii 01 desiguel must know that 'the "helm with beavei closed" is that of a plain esquire or gen- tleman ; that of a knight or baronet "wit h heaver ap, my lord." lam reminded of something I saw in New York a few years ago' It was upon the panel of a carriage— a helmet aj/ronte, with Sl.\ bars. I was a little curious to know if here was a family of royal

bl 1, as the helmet indicated. Hut upon inquiry, I

discovered that the carnage had been ornamented by a very clever painter, who only knew tnat a ■:, met was panted, and he took as his model, the first picture of the article that he could find. Some New York newspaper man discovered the same thing and poked a little fun at it. ami the helmet was changed for that of a "gentleman."

I hope, my deal sir, that this little stricture upon your engraver will not he misinterpreted. I beg to disavow any and all pretensions to a knowledge of heraldry, sufficient to warrant my criticisms. 1 did a few years ago devote a little time to the matter, having rather unusuaa) facilities which I did not want to neglect. The engraver may he nearer right than 1. I mean to have a die cut, as soon as I can reasonably determine '., hat to have ail.

I really wish I had something ol interest to write. But I feel assured from the thorough manner in which Mr. Albert E. Haskell and vou are evidently performing your labors, that whatever is really trust- worth v and valuable will be discovered bv vou. I think the family may congratulate itself that it pos- sesses two members whose means— and farm. .re than that, whose inclinations enable and prompt them to perform such a work as you have imposed upon yourselves. Genealogies there are, by the se,,r, ,., hundred; but 1 very much question if any of them give greater evidence ol pains-taking labor, than yours.

-. regret the lack of interest ill the matter which is evident by the slowness of some to whom I have written to make return of their blanks. Perhaps some of them are afraid the family may prove like growing potatoes the best of then 1 uiidi r the ground. But I confess to a pardonable curiosity— to give no better name — to know whether the underground portii 11 of the family were "small potatoes" or great. In fact, as I think I have said ill a former letter, it I i horse, I must have his pedigree; and I know of no argument, ancient or modern, which will disprove that if "blood will tell" in a horse, it will equally "tell" in a human being.

[thank you cordially for your very interesting

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letters, and can only regret the paucitv of infoi tion bearing upon the subject in which we mutually interested, whi< h mine contain. Yours vei y truly, W. Cakh ishn Mask EI P. S. I have cut the engraving from the li before me, and shall send it to-day to uij bro Frank A Haskell, at Dexter, Kansas, li-- is . good painter, and is to paint me, foi framing, "arms," i re-t and motto. ;^ soon as 1 can feel \>i sure of them. Can I ask you at some future I foi anelhci copj ol this engraving? By the \vi see you do not use the "l'idelea Mort," u lij ' \V. G. I

CARMEL.

Then raised be high his kingly face, And spoke to knight and lord around

"In all thy life; with all thy grace, Thou shalt not find a king so crowned,

As is this knight with honor's crest;

And since no arms blaze on his shield, I grant his tomb, his spirit these:

Sweet silver hells on sable field. And know ye gentles round about,

What though thy life hath sable spells Yet keep heart pure and courage stout,

And life complete is Carruel's bells."

A PERSONAL NARRATIVE.

(The Legi I of the Gi I I H tell Arms.) The I ifc Histoi

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In ancient days, a noble Sire

With dauntless heart and spotless shield,

Swuug high his s word with knightly fire On many a bloody l'aynim held.

From lingland's isle so s\\ eet and dear, He came to Syria's burning plain,

Content to die if he might heat- But once Mount Carmel's bells again.

For erst in years ere youth had fled-

A beardless knight with sword untried- He charged o'er tie-Ids of Moslem dead

And kept his place by Tancred's side. And in the night when summer stars

Shone strange upon his bloody steel, He he; rd upon the weeping air,

The hells of fair Mount Cannel peal.

They spoke to him of honors 'way,

Of strange, high duty, blazing clear, Of love they sang a solemn lay

Of tears, of sighs, of tire and fear. And though on high, heroic field,

In castle halls or ladies bower, - In mem'ry's crypt the bells still peal'd

As in that silent midnight hour.

His king, his friend, his lady fair,

He served in life with loyal zeal,- For, ever in the trembling air

He heard the hells of Cannel peal. The tale is drear, the tale is old,-

The king-forgot his servant's name, The friend-he stole his land and gold,

The dame-she sold his love for shame.

For this he left fair England's realm,

And came to Syria's bloody plain, There led the hosts with lofty helm

That he might hear the hehs again. The lie-Id was won-the leader lay

His blood enstaining Carmel's height, The while from monkish pile above

The hells streamed soft upon the night.

And in the morn when hasty steeds Brought Godfrey and his royal train

He knew too late the good knight's deeds, And kneeling— wept he-side the

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The personal and urgent solicitations and entreaties of my eldest son and the absolute impossibility of otherwise avoiding his im- portunities, are the only reasons that have induced me, at the advanced age of sixty years, to write these few incidents of lin- early life and that of my more immediate an- cestors.

I am perfectly aware of the fact that my life contains but little worthy of note and less that is worths- of preservation; hut my son insists that every event of my life will he of interest to tnose who shall come after me. Though I doubt his premises and reject his conclusions, yet as I feel that the hi ndrui record will interest and amuse him other, I have at last acceded to his request and the following hastily written recollec- tions are the result.

I am supposed to have come into this sinful and wicked world on or about the 2d day of December, A. I)., 1819, in the town of Bar- nard, Windsor County, and State- of Vermont. Giorious old Green Mountain State! which three days since sent greeting through the civilized world, of thirty thousand majority in favor of liberty, law, justice, Republican Government and James A. Garfield, liver since my recollection she has he-en true as the needle to the pole to those principles and policies which were calculated to best pro- mote the happiness and prosperity of all the people, and now she gives us renewed assur- ances of steadfast devotion to those princi- ple--. May she always in the future keep so near the right that the shade of her moun- tains shall he retlected in the hearts of her suns auu daughters. Baptised in the bloo- of the Revolution at Bennington, ami giving freely of her blood and treasure in every emergency of her Country since that time, she would he worse than a parricide if she did not now uphold and maintain those princi- ples of liberty which est so dearly to acquire and maintain s. 1 long.

My parental grandfather was Prince Has-

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kell, and my parental Grandmother Leah Wilder. Maternal grandfather ami Mother Timothy Newton and Abigail Earle.

Both my grandfathers were captured by the Indians in the year at the time Royalton was burned, ami taken prisoners to Can ada. <'ne -Timothy Newton -escaped from his captivity ami returned home through the trackless wilderness ami reached his home after great hardship ami suffering in about

months from the time of his captivity.

The other. Prince Haskell, was exchanged

after remaining a captive for .

My great, great grandfather was named Charles Edward Haskell. Mis wife was Eleanor of the same name. They had hut one son, Nathaniel, who married I.vdia Fos- ter and had for issue Princi grandfather.

The picture hereto annexed manuscript,, is that of my tin Haskell, son of Prince llaskeli and my lath- er's brother. He was a banker at Loudoil- ville, 111, and died about 1871.

The issue of Prince Haskell and Leah Has- kell, nee Wilder, were:

My father, Edward Wilder Haskell, Mich- ael Haskell, Prince Haskell, Nathaniel Has- kell, Harriet Haskell, Adeline Haskell, Maria Haskell.

The issne of Timothy and Abigail New- ton were:

Earl Newton, Barnabas Newton, Josiah Newton, Ira Newton, Uoxey Ann Newton, Elizabeth Newton and Elutheria Newton.

My mother. Roxey, married Lyman Stew- art; Elizabeth married Clark Chamberlain;

Earl married Dean, a sister of Amos

Dean a celebrated lawyer of Albany, New York.

Barnabas Newton was an artist, and I recollect a very beautiful medallion picture of himself upon ivory, in possession of my mother when I last knew of it.

Josiah and Ira settl.d in the Western Re- serve. State of N. V. They each raised large families, and each became quite wealth v.

Josiah was a General, whether of inilita or in the regular army 1 do not know.

My father was a farmer. The extent of his landed possessions [do not know, There- were two orchards upon the place,— one back of the dwelling house and no great distance off, and the other upon the opposite side of the road and some distance beyond "Pond Brook," the name of the stream that ran through the place.

1 recollect going to the latter orchard with my father. lie asked me if 1 was tired. I have Dot seen the place since I was eight years of age.

My father also "kept tavern" as they called it in those days.

He also had a small factory for the manti facture of woolen goods: also for coloring ..•

dressing the fabrics woven by the thrifty women of the surrounding country. 1 can recollect that about once each week the 'bit; gate" of the mill dam would be raised for the purpose of clearing tin- sediment from the dam. And when the gate was closed again leaving the stream below nearly dry, the rare sport the men used to have in gathering up the large line speckled trout from the pools below the dam -some of them weighing two pounds each.

The house in which I was born was of two stories and attic — the lower story of brick. To the right of the house on the same side of the 10.1.I was a row of tenement houses for the use of the "factory hands." [mmediately in front of these last upon the opposite side of the road w as the "factory."

In front of the "tavern" upon the opposite- side of the road was a shed for the shelter and protection of the teams of travelers. Ad- joining that was, .m the left, a stable lor horses. Still farther to the left was a barn for the hay and grain.

Father was not a robust or healthy man. His intelligence was very superior for that time and country. I have heard my mother say that as public speaker or in argument he- had no superior in that region. My recollec- tion is that he was about live feet eleven inches while my grandfather, Prince, was I think as much as six feet two inches. My own height is five feet eight inches. Brother Chauncey the same, and brother George five feet nine inches. The Haskell branch of the family were all tall while the New tons were short. My son Burnette is five feet nine and a half inches.

My father was kind and affectionate in his family, and t have often heard my mother say that during the fifteen years of their married life not acrussorunkind word passed between them, lie died at the early age of — of consumption or some kindred disease. The children of the marriage were: Elutheria Haskell. Edward Wilder Haskell. George Washington Haskell. Chauncey Has- kell and William Cullen Haskell.

William Cullen died at the age of — years, and Elutheria at the age of thirteen. My sister as I can recollect her and as I have- been informed was very beautiful.

Two or three years after father's death, my mother, was wedded to Jl Seph Blodgett of Randolph, < (range Co., Vermont.

lie had heard of the smart, sprightly widow. He came and saw, and the next morning re- turned the same road whence he Came. My mother wondered what it meant. After awhile lie came again. And again returned the same road.

In due time, he came again and made his wishes known. Just how long a time was consumed in coming to an agreement I do not know. If I have been told I have for-

gotten. They lived happily together to the last. He died in the State of Wisconsin

about years ago. My mother is still

living in Wisconsin with sour- of lier daugh- ters by the second marriage. She has visited and spent three years with me here in Cali- fornia.

When she left me to return to Wisconsin she was considered remarkably smart and ac- tive for a woman of her age. She is now ninety years of age.

1 was fortunate in having kind, affection- ate and loving parents My stepfather was equally kind to me during the fifteen years that 1 lived with him and he with me. Dur- ing all that time 1 never had cause to com- plain of him, and I hope ami believe I never gave him occasion to find fault with me. lie certainly never did.

Hut for my dear mother, who is living, I cannot find words sufficient to express all the love and veneration 1 feel for you. Your uniform kindness and love since 1 was old enough to know you, fill my heart with gratitude winch can never be obliterated.

May the remainder of your lite here upon earth be as peaceful, quiet and happy as it has always thus far been, and if it shall be my misfortune never to meet yon again in this world, we each have the consolation of know- ing that when we meet in the next there is nothing but the most kindly remembrances between Us.

Aii revoir, dearest and best of all mothers. Others may have as good but none better. [To he Continued.]

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A Short Account of the Desecn Wm. Haskell of Gloucester, Ma

BY ULYSSES C. HASKELL, BEVERLY,

The name Hascal, Hascall, Ilascol, Hascoll, Haskal, Haskall, Haskel, Haskil, Haskill Haskol, Haskoll, Haskul, Haskull, Hascbal Haschall, Heskell. Heiskell, spelled various other ways, but more generally spelled "Haskell," is stated in Arthur's "Etymolo- gical Dictionary of Family and Christian Names," to be of Welsh orgin, from "hasg," meaning a place of rushes, or a sedgy pi u e, and "hall" or "hayle" a moor, or marsh, so thai the name would appear to signify, "a place of rushes in the marsh" or "tin place."

If it is true as often stated that individuals become known by the [dace of their habitat- ion, it is probable that some of the name lived in a "sedgy place on the moor," wl I would not appear to have been a very heal

history of the family.

"Asgall" in the Gadic signifies, a sheltered

place, a retreat; and with the addition ol till aspirated "II" might make the name.

THE HASKELL FAMILY IN' AMERICA.

It would be difficult to find among the early settlers of New Kngland a single family whose genealogy would interest more persons than that of the Haskell family, and as yet there has been but little attempt made to preserve any information relating thereto.

The first settlers of the name in America appear to have been the three brothers, Roger, William and Mark, the patriarchal heads of the familv in this country.

Rogei was the eldest and Mark the young- est of the trio who probably came to New England together from Bristol, Kngland, as early as 1637, for they are all three found to have been very early settlers in that part of Salem which is now Beverly.

Roger was born in Kngland in 1613 and died in Salem (now Beverly), in 1667, where he had permanently resided, and is the an- cestor of most of the persons of the name now residing in Beverly and near vicinity, through his descendants are not very numer- ous.

He was a mariner, and engaged in the fishing business with a fish house on Winter Island in Salem harbor. In his will he mentions his brothers William and Mark, and in 1070 William was appointed guaidian of his son Samuel.

William was bom in Kngland in 1617, re- sided in Gloucester, Mass., where he died in 1693, and will receive further attention 111 this article.

Mark was born in Kngland, date un- known, and first settled in Salem (now Beverly), with his brother Roger, and is said to have removed to IMyniouth win re lie left descendants, but nothing further is definitely known of him other than that he is mentioned in In- brother's will as before stated.

It is stated, however, by Mr. l'cilev Derby of Salem, Mass., that this Mark settled in Beverly where he died in 1686-9, «"ith an estate of .,70 pounds, and that he was un- doubtedly the youngest of the three brotheis; was a mariner engaged in the fish- ing business, and left descendants who settled in Marblehead, Mass.. and, -inter- married with the White and Coombs fami- lies.

The second brother, William Haskell, is the ancestor of most of the Haskells, in this country. His posterity is believed to be- much more numerous than that of any other of the early settlers of ( lloucester, where he permanently resided. A large nun

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still to be found in that place and large numbers are scattered abroad over the country. From this prolific stock emigrants have gone forth, who whether they braved the dangers and hardships of pioneer life in the forests of Maine, »r sought a kinder soil than their own more settled regions, or en- gaged in handicraft and trades in the marts of business, have generally sustained the character for usefulness and respectability which the family has always borne in its more ancient seat.

William Haskeel, the first of the name to settle in Gloucester, then called Cape Ann, was horn in Kngland in [617, came to New England about 1637 with his brothers

Roger and Mark with whom heat first settled in the part ot Salem, now Beverly, then known as Cape Ann Side, and sub- sequently became a permanent resident of Gloucester, where he died August 20, 1693, leaving an estate valued at 54S pounds, 12s.

He 1 1 r -^ t appears in Gloucester in i"4.; and in 1045 mention is made of his land at Planter's Neck where he probably resided for a few years following the latter date, hut the information obtained from the recorded births of his children affords grounds for the conjecture that he was not a permanent resident from that time.

If, however, h.e left town for a season he had returned in 1656 and settled on the westerly side of Annisquam river where he had several pieces of laud, among which was alotoi ten acres with a house and barn thereon bought of Richard Window, situated on the westerly side of Walker's creek. His two sons took upland on both sides of this creek which is still occupied by his descend- ants.

He was a mariner, anil was engaged in the fishing business, and was known as captain and lieutenant.

The public offices to which he was chosen atloul sufficient prool that he was a promi- nent and useful citi/en. He was selectman several years, ami a representative to the general court six times in the 1 ourse of twenty years. In 1661 he was appointed by the general court lieutenant of the "trayned band" of which he was afterwards captain:

It is stated that in 1688 "some feeble but magnanimous efforts of expiring freedom" were exhibited in the refusal of several towns to assess the tax'-s which the Gover- nor, Sir I'.dmund Andros, and Council of New England hail levied upon them. One of the-i- towns was Gloucester, seven of whose citizens, namely: William Haskell, Sen., James Stevens, Thomas Riggs, Sen., Thomas Millett, Jeffrey Parsons, Timothy Some re and William Sargent, Sen., were fined at the Superior Court at Salem for the

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Somers a constable. All but Somers were lined forty shillings with three pounds ami a shilling added lor fees. Somers was let oil' on payment of fees only.

In 1681 he was one of the petitioners to the King praying for the crown's interposi- tion to prevent the disturbance of titles to real estate at Gloucester by Robert Mason who had made claims thereto.

At the general court in 1685 one Grace Dutch was appointed adminislratoi of her husband Osmond Dutch "with the advice and assistance of Lieutenant William Haskell."

He was nne of the first of two of whom we have any knowledge who were deacons of the first church at Gloucester.

lie married November i'i, 1643, Marjr, daughter of Walter Tybbjt, who died four days before her husband, by whom lie had the following children:

2 i Will. ,1111. 1). Aug. 2f>, I'll

5 iv toll 11, !>.-— . K.J.I.

SECOND GENERATION.

2 William Haskell, called junior, was born August 26, 1644, and died June 5, 170S, aged sixty four years, in Gloucester, Mass., where he had always resided, leaving an estate valued at 000 pounds, consisting of land, buildings and farm stock.

He owned an extensive grist and saw mill which fell in the division of his estate to ins son William.

This mill was probably situated in what is now the town of Rockport.

He married, lulv ;. 1 67. Marv Walker, daughter of William and Mary Brown who took the name of her stepfather Henry Walker, and who died November . 2, 1715. aged sixty-sis years.

lie had children born as follows:

11 i Mary, b. April 29, lOl S; 111 '

Sept. 1 |. n>S7, and Uzekiel W Iwaril,

12 ii William, 1

1: iii Joseph, b. April 2 11

14 i\ Abigail, l>. March 2, if.75; m. Nathaniel

I'ai - 11s, 1 ii c. 27, ii i)7, ami I I 'it'. 11

15 i llenrv, Ii. April 2, i(>;.S.

.(, vi Andrew, b Jill; : I. / 14, 16S0.

17 vii L).lia, b.Sept.4, if,8i.

is viii Sarah, l>. l-eb. 26, 11 | il I el

iy is lili/.abelh, b. April 5 i(iS(>; 111 1

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frey.June4.17j-. 211 x Hannah U I; cl. I'eb. 15, l(>yl.

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3 Joseph Haskell was born June :, 1640, resided in Gloucester, Mass., where he died November 1:, 1 7 - 7 . aged eighty years.

He was a deacon of the fust (.lunch; and upon its formation was chosen deacon of the second church in Gloucester. He was also .

selectman for several years.

He married December 2, 1674, Mary Graves of Andover, Mass., who died April 8, 1733, aged eighty-one years, and by whom lie had the following children, namely:

23 1 Mnry, l>. Anril 29, 1(17(1: m. Lord,

.■1 ii Walter, b. Nov. 18, 1677; d Nov. .'-',11.77. .»5 iii 1-li/ahelh, 1). Oct. 24, 1679; d. Oct. S, 1700. 2(i iv |oseph, I'. Nov. .'7. 11. Si. .'7 v Hannah, b. Oct. 30, 16S3; m. a Davis,

probably Aaron. 2S vi Dorcas, l>. March 7, I0S5; m. l-lir/cr Hubbard, ..I' Salisbury, Mas-. Dec. l(., 1 7 1 ->. 29 vii Daniel, b. Dec. 16, toSS. ; . \iii Kbenezer, 1>. Keb. 22, 1690. ;i ix Dorothy, 1.. Nov. is. 1694; m. ;

Goodhui . of Ipswich, Ma\ 9, 1; • : .^2 x Naomi, b. Dec. 2fi, 1696; m. Isaac Frye, ( »ct. 1 -,. 1725.

4 Benjamin Haskell,2 was born in 164s, resided in Gloucester, Mass., where he died in 1740, aged about ninetv-two years. I lis will was proved May 25, 1741.

He was a housewright by trade, was often one of the selectmen of the town, was a re- presentative to the general court in [706 and in 1707, and was a deacon of the first and second churches for many years.

lie married November 21, 1077,. Maty, daughter of Thomas Riggs, who died Janu- ary 29, 1698, aged thirty-nine years, and by whom he had the following children;

;,;, i Elinor, b. Aug. 26. 167S: m. Daniel Ring, — ; .1. June 10. 1713.

.-,4 ii Hannah, b. Dec 7, 1679; d, Dec. S, 1679.

55 ii Patience, b. June 1, ibSi; 111. John Roberts, March 17, 170;,.

;'. iv Benjamin, 1>. March 13, I'.s;.

47 v John, b. April 1. 10K5; d. num.

# vi Sarah, b. — , 1080; in. a Pride, probably l'eter.

.|i ix William, b. Api i

5 John Haskeli.,2 was bom in 1649, re- sided in Gloucester, Mass., where he died February 2, 171s. at the age of sixty-nine years.

He was probably the John Haskell who served in the Indian war of 1075, with the sixteen men from Clour ster, being nearly one-fourth of all its male citizens 1 bearing arms. This large levy shows the exigency of the occasion.

A lot of land was granted him December I, situated at Kettle Cove, for his services in this war.

In 1683 he was a deputy to the general court.

lie married in May or Novembet . Mary Baker, who died November 2.\, 172^, aged fifty-eight years, and by whom he had the following children:

■ 1. April 21, i'.s'..

24,

throe v< John.'b.

1 Doth (1. young,. - >S, .',,;. 11,. I. a.n C,.ark, 1, an. I removed to Wind am she died a; the age

[09 il tiled Sept. v.,

1774. oliildl. . .1 11.. I 1 bachelor, though it has been slated that he probably mar ricd 1 .: :■ e Cummings, Mas [(., 1723, hut he cerlainlv died withonl 'I'll.- name then for. pel iietuated

i„ this branch of the family.

7 Mark Haskklt.,: was horn April R, ch d in Gli in ester, M:,-s„ where he died September S, 1691, aged thirty-three years.

He married December 1'., 1685, F.li/.abetli Giddings, supposed to have been the daugh- ter of Lieutenant John Giddings of [psw ich, Mass.

His willow married John Dennison of Ips- wich. The probate records show thai Mark and William Haskell, children of Mark, re- ceived January 16, 1725, of their "honoured father in-law Mr. John Dennison, and their honoured mother Mrs. rvli/abeth Dennison' alias Haskell, both of Ispvvick," money due from the estati 1 tin it grand- father William Haskell.

His children were as fi illi i\\ s

49 i George,!). Oct. r\ KiXd; d. Nov. 10, ihSo

50 ii M irk h - pi

51 iii William, 1,. Jan. 1, 16S9 90

s Sarah Haskell, was horn June 28, i66o, and from the probate papers of her father's estate appears to have February 5, [6S4, Edward Haraden ol Glou cester, Mass.

Rev. John Adams Vinton, however, in his memorial of the Vinton famil) states on authorityof Mr. Kbenezer Poole 1 port, Mass., who claimed to have been ouc of her descendants, that she married Richard Woodbcrry of Beverly, Mass., December to, 1(17.), and makes no mention of the marriage to Haraden. Richard Woodberrj was a son of Humphrey, who was born in Somerset- shire, England, in 1009, and came to Cape Ann in 1624, and thence to Beverly.

After said Richard's death Sarah married John Poole, who was horn in Taunton, ling- land, in 1070, and came to Beverly in 1690, ami thence to Rockport, Mass., in -

SPECIAL NOTICE.

The issues of this Journal are nol typed and the editors have in reserve only

two hundred and fifty extra copies. It is im- perative to those who ,i. sire the ' and genealogy complete, or who desire extr;i copies, that they shall let us know within the next twenty days. We cannot guarantee to back numbers at all. And the various ssues will mt again he printed.

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BOARD OF PUBi ICATION D. H. Haskell, 20 Sansome St., Cal. Woolen Mills, R. R. Haskell, 115 Kearney St., Diamond Merchant. B. C. Haskell, 1346 Market St., Attorney.

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JANUARY, [898.

SALUTATORY.

We think that the reasons for the publica- tion of this JOURNAL are obvious. We be- lieve as well that the contents, the artistic appearance, and the typographical character- istics of the paper need no excuse. Yet good as they are they will he hereafter improved.

A wealth of material comprising thousands of genealogies, hundreds of interesting letters and biographies, and monographs embracing researches in every State of the Union and many countries of Europe, — the result of twenty live years of labor, --can only be given to the family in this method and by this way.

There is capital enough secured to guar- antee the success of the enterprise. Hut if every Haskell in the l/nited States will come at once to the front with his subscription,— not only for himself but 101 each, of the chil- dren of his family, — the next issue of the JOURNAI, may be double the present si/.e.

The editor invites detailed and friendly correspondence from every subscriber upon all matters connected with our name and with their own genealogy, adventures and history. He especially asks that the geneal- ogical blank enclosed in this number be filled out and forwarded at once. He suggests al- so that in view of the great amount of inter- esting matter yet to be published that im- mediate response be made to the contents of this number.

A VISITOR FROM ABROAD.

Mrs. Helen M. Haskell Thomas, the wile of Seymour Thomas, the American artist sent by the legislature of the State of Texas to Paris, and herself of no mean ability, arrived with her husband in New York a mouth or so ago where they were the guests of some of our best people, including John Swinton of the New York Sun, and Joseph R. Buchanan of the "American Press Asso- ciation." They are now on their way to Los Angeles, from thence to San Francisco, and from thence to New Orleans, in all of which places Mr. Thomas has portrait com- missions.

Mr. Thomas is the painter of the celebrated picture which hundreds of our subscribers doubtless saw at the Chicago Exposition, and which has been engraved and re-engraved many times; :t is called "A Chance Shot," and represents a dreary and desolate battle held in the Franco-Prussian war, with the Red Cross ambulance in the background, and in the foreground four striking figures, one a nun supporting a lovely sister novice whom a stray bullet has struck to death. At the foot of the innocent victim lies a man wounded to death but rising ami gazing with pity in his face. A Red Cross officer am! an assistant support the dying woniGti.

Mrs. Haskell Thomas is herself an artist, as said before, of no mean ability. One of her pictures has been this year hung upon the line in the Paris Salon.

Their trip to America is merely to fill com- missions that have been engaged during their residence in Paris.

The father of Mrs. Haskell Thorn.- is Ed- ward Wilder Haskell, still living, and her three brothers are Burnette G., ben B., and Edward Prince, all of California, though lien 1!. was born in Ohio.

NOMENCLATURE CURIOSITIES. In looking over the genealogies of one branch of the Haskell family in America de- scended from one of the Salem brothers, a Haskell cousin interested in our history has made the following summary of the various names found in that particular branch since the year if>.;2, anil furnishes us for publica- tion with the following summary showing how many times the names have been re- peated in the same branch. The figures fob

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lowing each name show how many times it appears in the past two hundred and fifty years.

It is amusing to note that in dozens of cases where a child has died, that the parents have a racial habit of naming a second child with the same Christian name. There ap- pear to be many occasions when there were twins bum, although in this particular branch no triplets are observable. The list is as follows:

Aulas Abraham 3, Abner, Alexander 2, Amos 4, Aaron 5, Abigail 14, Andrew 3, Adoniram 2, Anna l.s.Abimelech, Amy, Asa,;, Almira 2, Abel. Agnes, Abby, Albert 2, Amelia, Alamson, Adela, Amanda, Allie, Ar- thur.

Betsey 3, Benjamin iS, Barnabas 2, Bildad, Branford, Broderick, Bertha 2.

Craig, Caleb 3, Comfort 2, Charles 7, Cyn- tha, Cyrus 2, Carl, Clarissa. Caroline, Cabin, Clarence 2, Clement, Cedric, Catherine.

Dorthy, Daisy 2, Daniel 11, Dorcas 2, De- liverance, David 4, Holly, Dudley, Deborah, Daison.

Ellen, Eugene, Emery, Lsther 3, Lll'reda, Ezra 2, Eleanor, Enoch 3, Editha, Ebenezers, Elizabeth 23, Elinor 3, Experience, Elijah 5, Edward 7, Elias 4, Elmer, Eunice 2, Eliza 3, Eben, Eulalia, Ephram 2, Epes, Eudora, Eli, Emily 3, Emma, Edwin 6.

Francis, Frederick 2, Frank 6, Fannie, Forbes, Florence.

George 13, Grace, Gertrude, Gardner.

Henry 5, Hannah 8, Ilitty, Humphrey, Horace, Hubbard 3, Holton, Hester, Helen 2, Harriet, Harry 4.

Isaac 7, Israel 2, Ignatius, Ida.

Joseph 15. John 31, Jacob S.Josiah 5, Jemi- ma 6, Jedediah, Jeremiah 3, Jonathan 12, Ju- dith 6, Joel, Joshua 4, Jerusha, J. me 3. Job 3. Joanna. Jabe/, Josephine 2, James 4, Jessie, Julia.

Keziah, Keturah.

Lizzie, Lydia 3, Lucy 10, Lueretia, Lemuel 2, Leonard, Levi 2, Loomis, Leonidas 2, Luther, Louisa, I.ucien, Lucia, Laura 2, I.a- vina 2, Llewellyn, Louis, Lois.

.Mark 5, Mary 25, Moses 7. Merry 4, Molly 2, Martha 5. Medapha, Mehitable 4, Murray, Mica jab, Mana, Marrietta, Margaret.

Nellie, Naomi 2, Nehemiab 3, Nathaniel 9, Natha n 6, Nancy 2, Noah 1 .

Orinda, Oliver 2, Ortega

Sarah 30, Samuel 5, Susanna 4, Sol anon 3, Sybil, Susan 5, Simeon 2, Stephen 5, Sally 2, Sophia, Sewell 3. Serena.

Phineas.i, Patience 2, Prudence, Philemon, Peter, Pomroy, Phebe.

Robert, Roger, Ruth 9, Rachel 4, Reuben, Roxanua, Rebecca 4, Riley, Roy.

Thomas s. Thankful 2.

Ulysses.

William 46, Walter 3. Ward, Willis, Wil- son, VVoldo.

Zebulon 2.

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Thomas Haskell, son of Mark and Ruthie Haskell, of Marblehead, was married to Mary Phillips, daughter of Joshua and Grace Prentis of Marblehead, on the 21st day of February, 1790.

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Thomas Coombs Haskell, son of Thomas and Ruthie Haskell of Marblehead, was mar- ried to Mirriam F. Pitman, daughter of Thomas Pitman.

Children of Thomas Coombs and Mirriam F. Haskell:

Reuben R. Haskell,

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Chapter IN, — Contest kok Inco TION. — Petitions and Remonstrances.

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To the Whole Court. emorial dt' a number of the inhab twnship or plantation known by tl

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name of number four, in the county of Cum- berland and commonwealth of Massachusetts, humbly showeth that whereas your memori- alists are apprehensive that some of the in- habitants of said township, without consider- ing the inability of the inhabitants, about petitioning to the Honorable Court to incor. porate said township into a town which, with- out some better information, might incline the Honorable Court to think that the in- habitants of said township in general, are wealthy and are able to bear the burdens of a tax, which your memoralists hereby pre- sume to say is not the ease with them, but quite the reverse, manv of us being new be- ginners and laboring under many embarrass- ments, are hardly able to support ourselves and families, being yet involved in debt tor our land and have no resource but the sub- duing of the rough and uncultivated wilder- ness, which will afford us no surplus alter our real necessities are supplied; add to it our hard labor and uncomfortable cottages the cost of transportation, being fifty miles from market and rough roads, the charge of which, to them that hire them transported, is nearly one-half 'lie value of the produce; which puts it out of the power of many to procure clothing to screen themselves and families from the severity of the inland win- ters. While the greater part of the inhabit- ants la'. or under the aforesaid disadvantages, and the anditional burden of clearing and making roads in said township, any supplies drawn from them by taxes, would deprive them of some part of the scanty means of their substance, and to be incorporated into a town in our present condition, we conceive would not serve to relieve us from any of our present burdens nor assist Us to avoid anv future evils. We therefore accordingly wish that our present vigorous exertions to place ourselves in a situation equal with 0111 fellow- citizens in wealth and ability, may not be in- terfered with by any burdens laid on us that our infant state cannot support, and that the Honorable Court will take our case into wise consideration, and let us remain in our pres- ent .state, until the period of wealth may ar- rive, your memorialists as in duty bound will ever pray.

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Nathaniel Haskell, with forty-nine others. * H= :;= ■■■■ *

[Page 79. Tut: FirstTown Meeting..]

At a meeting of tile freeholders and otlier

inhabitants of the town of Paris, regularly assembled at the dwelling house of Mr. Reu- ben Hubbard of said town, on the- [6th day of July 1703 — etc.

Tythingmen elected, Jonathan Hall, Nath- aniel Haskell, Wm. Swan, Benj. Hammond and Setli Carpenter.

The town declined to abate the taxes of Dennis Haskell and Mannasseb Powers.

(Page 313.) The following table shows at a glance the extent of the organized temperance reform in Oxford county, in [834. Albany, organ- ized 1831, Asa Ci'.mmiings, President; P. Haskell, Secretary. Ninety-one numbers (in the table there are twenty-six other or- ganizations.)

(Page 355.) Paris Lodge No. 94. By consent of < (xford Lodge, and on the petition of several masons who resided in Paris, a dispensation was granted in [85S, by Grand Master Hiram Chase, for a Masonic" Lodge at South Pan.

A charter for the Lodge was issued May 5th, 1S59.

In i860 I,. 15. Weeks was elected master, and Merrill E. Haskell, secretary. Twelve- persons were made Masons during the year.

r86i. Wm. A. Rust, Master; Merrill ]•. Haskell, Secretary. Number of Masons made during the year, six.

[862. Wm. A. Rust Master; Merrill K. Has- kell, Secretary. Number of Masons made, twelve. The first death in- the Lodge was that of Robert Hall, wdio died March ir.

1863. Wm. A. Rust, Master; Mersill I'. Haskell, Secretary. Number of Masonsmade, ten.

(Page 465.) Abij ah Hall bought the lot next to Den- nett's and built what is now the residence of Mrs. Haskell. From the east end of hi- pur- chase he gave fhe lot on which the Congre- gational meeting house now stands

I Page 625.)

Haskell. Rzekiei. Whitman Haskell

was the son of Peter and Lucy (Pulsifor) Haskell of New Gloucester, born July 3, 1831, married April 5, 1855, Harriet, daughter of Nathaniel and Ruth Lufkin), Rideout, born in New Gloucester, July 54, 1831, settled at South Paris village, 185S. Children:

Emma Wh itman, born April 17, 1S60; Ed- win Nelson, born fuly 2 ittie Lufkin, b rn Dei • mber 23, I864. The father died uly 5. 1 71.

Subscribers are requested to complete this fragmentary record by dates and names.

VARIOUS GENEALOGIES.

Four Generations of Various Branches of the Haskell Family The following tables are summaries of some of the thousand blanks in possession of the editor, collected within the past twenty five years. They are largely defective in many particulars and cannot l>e corrected save by the assistance of the members of the family whose names arc therein mentioned. It is hoped that every person will scan these and the enclosed blank published with the ut- most attention, and endeavor to aid us in connecting the missing links.

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Joiinathan, his grandfather, married P. A. Arnold of Cape Ann. Mass., she was ho,,: January [9, 1 761 ; she died January ■ he was horn at Duxbury, Mass., 1766; he died at New Gloucester, Me., October 9, 1858.

Charles Cruris, father; his children were Charles Henry; George W.; Deborah A.: Al- fred P.: and Fannie S.

Charles H., married Mary E. Reynolds of Portland, Me., who was born March 4, [S25, died October 6, 1863; lie was horn at New Gloucester Me., May 12, 1S24; married at Portland, May to, 1849; had one child, Charles Oliver, horn Plymouth, Mass., August 24, 1856.

SAMUEL Haskei.I., his grandfather, mar- ried Elizabeth Macomber; she was born October 14, 1737: she died September 3, 1S25; he was horn February 17, 1734; he died at North Brook field, Mass., November [5, [820; he had two sons and five daughters, Paul, Silas, Elizabeth, Olive, Ruth, Mary and Re- becca; all dead. Deacon William I'. II. is!. ell, only son living of Paul Haskell. Tost Office address North Brookfield, Mass.

Silas manied S.uah I'.ond, who was horn Deeeinhei y, 177;. died January S, 1S5. : he was horn August 13, 177.-, at North Brook- field, Mass.; married at North Brookfield, Mass., April n, 1799; died at Perry Lake Co., Ohio, May [8, rS^i; had nine children, seven sons and two daughters, Samuel, Silas, Fer- dinand, Hiram, Eli B., Lucy, Chancy, Sarah I',., and Harrison. Those living are Silas, Viroqua, Veinon Co.. Wis.;Chancy, Sturgeon Bay, Door Co., Wis.; Ferdinand and Eli B., Perry, Pake Co., ( )hio.

El.l 1!., married Elvira Smith, she was horn May 15, 1809; he was horn August 31, 1808, at North Brookfield, Mass.; married December 29, 1833, at Perry Pake Co., Ohio. Nine children, six sons and three daughters, Olitl-

thus A., Gardner S., Olinthus IP, Sarah A.,

Elizabeth E , I.ucy P., Eli P., Jr., Herbert P., and Samuel A. — three of the sons living, Eli B. Ir., Herbert I'. and Samuel A— all of Per- 1 v, Lake C o., < Ihio; daughters living are Mrs Sarah A. Selkeld, Mr.S Pucy hi. Manchester, Perry, Lake Co., Ohio.

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Phomas Haskell, his great-great-grand- father; he died at Deer Isie, Me.; had two children, Mark and Francis. The descend- ants of Francis Haskell are numerous in this

place; too much so to give names in so small

M VRK, his great-grandfather, married Abi- gail Bray, she was born July 1 . : 7 7 _* ; died at Deei [sle, Me., July 12, 1813; he was born at Cape Ann, Mass., ('etcher .•••, 1723; died at Deei 1 le, Me., January 1, 1 s 10; had thirteen children, nine sons and four daughters.

Ignatius, his grandfather, married Mary Stickney; she was horn in 1752: died at New- bury Port. Mass., September 8, 1S27; he was horn at Newbury Port, Mass., October 15, 175c he was married at Newbury Port, Mass.; died at Deer Isle., Me., November 2 had eight children, four sons and four daughters.

Solomon, his father, married Joanna Car- mon: she was horn August 17114, at Deer Isle; he was horn January 6, 171)4, at Deer Isle; manied November 25, 1814, at Deer Isle; died at Deer Isle, August 20, [867; had nine children, four sons and five daughters.

Charles S„ married Martha B. Haskell: she was horn at Deer Isle. April 2, 1823; he was horn at Deer Isle, October 23, is 2 : ; mar- ried at Mechanic halls, Me., November 9, 1857; had two children, one son and one daughter: name of son Judson Adams, bom al Deer Isle, November 17, 1S58.

THE ARMS.

There are a score of authorities regarding the Haskell arms and from time to time these will he given to our readers.

Two are given in this issue that may he of interest as follows:

I-'ruin "General Aunnrv -of F.ngland, Scotland and 78, Loudon, by Sir liernard liurke, Ulster King of Arms, p. 465.

Haskell, — Vaire ar (another or) and sa. Crest: on a mount an apple tree fi uited ppr.

I-'rom the "Ordinary of Armorials," byj. W. I'ap- worth, London, 1H74, under title ol "vair argent et sable," page [120

Cusacke, Farmer Co., Leicestershire. Dela- field Sire Robert de La Warde, temp, lid- ward I. F. G. IP J. John De la Warde I. Austiuian Priory at Fristoke, or Frithelstoke Co., Devon. — Ashmolean MSS. 763.

Sir William Haskell, V. Haskell, Hassell. - ' ■ vairy or and sa. Haskell ' Y.

Glovers 1 irdinary, Cotton M. -s. Tiberius I). mi, Harl MSS. 1392 and

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OUR ANCESTOR'S TRIALS.

An Interesting Account of the Royalton Raid by Savages in the Last Century.

From the Historj ok Rastern Vermont from its earliest settlement to theclose ol the eighteenth ccn-

I'v lienjamin II. Hall. New York: I). Appleloii it Co., .v|S Broadway. 1S58.

Considering the exposed situation of the northern frontier of Vermont, it had long been a niatterofsurprise and congratulation that the British and [ndians had not more frequently improved the many opportunities which were open to them of attacking the settlers ami pillaging their fields ami dwell- ings. This apparent forbearance, so far from arising from any praiseworthy motive, was caused by the many difficulties which the enemy knew it would be necessary for them to encounter in reaching the settle- ments. Hut the intervention of steep mount- ains and pathless forests did not afford com- plete exemption from attack. On the oth. of August, a party of twenty-one Indians visited the town of Barnard, and made pris- oners of Thomas M. Wright, John Newton, and Prince Haskell. These men were sub- sequently carried to Canada, whence the two former escaped in the spring following. The latter was exchanged after being for more than a year in captivity. While pris- oners they suffered many hardships, which differed only in kind from tho.se they en- dured during their return journey. David Stone of Bethel was also captured 'at the same time by the same party. When the settlement of Bethel was begun in the fall of

the year, a small stockade fort had been

built by the inhabitants of the town for their protection. It stood at the lower end of the west village, on the White river, and its garrison, which had been removed from Royalton, was commanded by Captain Saf- tord. On the occasion of this incursion.it rendered no effectual service in behalf of the inhabitants. Immediately after the attack, the inhabitants of Barnard called a town- meeting, and resolved to build a fort. Ben- j uuiti Cox was chosen captain and a mes- sage was sent to t lie Coventor lor a commis- sion. As soon as the fact of the inroad was known, several companies of soldiers from different parts of the state set out for Bar- nard, but before they arrived there, the enemy had departed, and the woik of de- fence was almost completed. The fort was known as Fort Defiance, and at times was occupied by a garrison.

But the sorest trial was yet to come. In July, 177'), an American officer, a certain Lieut. Whitcomb, while out with a scouting party on the .river Sorel, had mortally wounded C.en. Oordcn, a British officer, as he was tiding between Chambly and .St.

John, and had taken front him his sword and watch. The British had long desired to avenge this act, which they regarded as base and villanous, resulting wholly from a desire of plunder, and totally unworthy of an officer. lTo capture Whitcomb, was with them, a controling motive. Kxpccting, it is supposed, that they should find him at New- bury on Connecticut river, an expedition was planned against that town, of the two hundred and ten men who were engaged in it, all were Indians with the exception of seven white men who were refugei tnd tories. In the beginning of October, the party, under the command of Horton, a British lieutenant, and one I,e Mott, his assistant, stalled on their mission of plunder and revenge. Their guide whose name was Hamilton, had been made prisoner by the Americans at the .surrender of Burgoyne, in 1777. He had been at Newbury and Royalton during the preceding summer, on parole of honor; and having left the latter place with several others, under pretence of going to survey lands in the northern part of Vermont, had gone directly to the enemy, to whom, no doubt, he communicated such information as served to assist them in ex- ecuting their barbarous intentions. While proceeding up Onion or Winooski river, they fell in, near the spot wdtere Montpelier now stands, with two white men engaged in hunting, who informed them that the people of Newbury had been expecting an assult from their enemies in Canada, and were well prepared for defense. The information, whether true or false, had the effect to divert them from the primary object of the expedi- tion, and to turn their attention towards Royalton.

This town had formerly been defended by a small garrison, but unfortunately the soldiers had a little while before been re- moved seven or eight miles westward to Capt. Safford's fort in the town of Bethel, and the inhabitants were now entirely desti- tute of the means of defence. On reaching the mouth oi Steven's branch, the enemy passed through the town of Bane to Jail branch, which empties into Steven's branch; and, after proceeding up this stream for some distance, crossed the mountains in Washington and Orange counties, and strik- ing the first branch of White river, followed itdown through Chelsea, and encamped at Tinibridge, where they remained during Sunday, the 15th. of October, engaged.no doubt, in maturing their plan of attack. Leaving a strong ^uard at this place, they advanced the next morning before daybreak towards the more settled parts of Tinibridge, and commenced depredations at the house of John Hutchinson, which was situated in Tinibridge, but adjoined the line of Royalton. Having made Mr. Hutchinson and his

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brother Abijah prisoners, they plundered the house, crossed the first branch of White river, and proceeded to the dwelling of Unhurt Havens in Royalton, which was not far distant. Mr. Havens, who bad gone into his pasture, becoming aware ol danger from the barking of dogs, and beholding at the same time, a party of Indians entering his house, lay down under a log and escaped their notice. Mis son, Daniel Havens, and another young man, Thomas Pcniber, who were in the house when the enemy ap- proached, endeavored to escape by flight. Havens succeded in throwing himself ovei

an adjacent hedge, and being protected by the hushes, crept down the hank of the stream and concealed himself beneath a log, over which the Indians passed a lew min- uets afterwards, as they pursued with im- petuous haste their escaped prey. Coming up with Pember, one of aimed at him a spear, which; striking him inflicted a severe wound. He still continued running, hut, becoming faint with the loss of blood, was soon overtaken, killed, and scalped.

Having selected Mr. Havens' house as a deposit lor their baggage and a post of observation, a portion of the party were left thereon guard, while the main body again set forth to complete the work of destruction. On their way they overtook, Klias Button, a young man, who endeavored to avoid them. But the Indians— licet of foot, and savage by the scent of blood — rendered his attempts useless, and his body was left by the roa 1- side in its gore. Advancing silently and with great caution, they next entered the dwelling of Joseph Kneeland, which was about a half mile distant from Havens'. Here they made prisoners of Kneeland and his aged father, also of Simeon Belknap, Giles Gibbs, and Jonathan Brown. Carry- ing devastation in their train, they finally reached the mouth of White river branch, where they made a stand, and dispatched small parties in different directions to plunder the dwellings and brinj; in pris- oners. They had already stolen a number of horses, and, thinking to facilitate opera- tions they now mounted them, and cudcav ored to control them by yells and shouts. The horses, unused to such riders, were rendered more and more unmanageable by the fren/ied cries of the Indians, and served essentially to impede the execution of their plans. The alarm had now become general and the frightened inhabitants, flying in every direction, sought such places as might afford a refuge from the barbarity of their pursuers. As a detachment of the enemy were passing down the west bald; of White- river, they were perceived by one of the in- habitants, who immediately gave notice of their approach to Gen. Klias Stevens, who was working in a Held about two miles dis-

tant from his house. Unyoking his oxen, he turned them out, and mounting his horse Started up the river, lie had gone about a mile m the direction of his dwelling, when he was met by Capt. John Parkhurst, who informed him that the Indians were in hill pursuit down the river, and counselled him to turn back. Fearing for tin; safety of his wife and children, yet aware of the immin- ent danger which threatened himself, Stevens changed his course, and reti iced his steps, in company with Parkhurst. On reaching the house of Deacon Daniel Rix, Stevens took Mrs. Rix and two or three children with him on his horse; Parkhurst performed the same kind of office foi Mrs. Benton and a number of children, and, with all the care and attention of which the oc- casion allowed, the party rode oil to the Held wdiere Stevens, had first received the alarm, being followed by Deacon Rix and several other persons on font, (in reaching this spot, the women and children were left in charge of a Mr. Burroughs, while Steven--, full of concern for his family, again set out for his home. He had gone about hall a mile when he discerned the Indians ap- proaching. As they were but a few rods distant, he instantly turned about, and com- ing up with the company he had left, en- treated them to take to the woods; immedi- ately following his advice they were soon concealed in the neighboring thicket where they remained undiscovered by the foe. Passing down the road a half mile further. Stevens came in si^ht of the house of his father in-law, Tilly Parkhurst. Here he found his sister engaged in milking, and en- tirely unconscious of the approach of the foe. Telling her to 'leave her cow immedi- ately or the Indians would have her," he left her to secure her own retreat. By the time he had gained the house, the Indians were not more than eighty or a hundred rods in the rear. Fear had so taken posses- sion of the half-crazed inhabitants that it was impossible to persuade or compel them to take refuge in the woods. Choosing the road, they kept it as well as their terrible fright and exhaustion would allow until they reached the house of Capt. I-',. Park- hurst in Sharon. Here they halted for a few moments, but their pursuers appearing in si<;ht, they were compelled again to push forward in order to escape impending dis- trUCtion. The few horses which the terrified inhabitants had succeeded in securing, could not carry but a small portion of those who had now assembled, and there was but little time for consultation or suggestion. his mother and sister upon his own horse, and Mrs. Rix and her three children upon another, Stevens bade them ride on with all possible speed, while he should follow with i until "e. I ill ne\t Issue. ;

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The Country and Eastern Trade of the Hasket.t.S respectfully solicited. I can furnish purer and better and cheaper wines than you can get from France. Correspond with me.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Biography ot R. R. Haskell, Genealogy of S. P. Haskell, Biography of John Leland? Haskell, Editorials, - - - . -

Aunt Hitty Haskell, Our Ancestors' Trials, Genealogy (William Haskell), Genealogy of G. R. Haskell Personal Narrative. E. W. H., Genealogy of P. F. Haskell, Ge.nealogy of John Leland Haskell, Miscellaneous, ...

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REUBEN R. HASKELL.

Thomas Haskell, son of Mark and Ruthie Haskell of Marblehead, Mass., was married to Mary Phillips, daughtei of Joshua and Grace Prentiss, upon the -'ist day of Febru- ary, 1 791 1. Among their children was Thomas Coombs, horn June 2, 1800; died September 5, [866. He married Mirriam F. Pitman, and among their nine children was Reuben Rob-

ertslHaskell, the subject of this sketch, horn on the 1 Jth of March, 1840, who is one of the Board of Publication of the Haskei.l Jovr- n.\i., and whose portrait appears above. He is a member of one of the leading linns of of diamond jeweler- in San Francisco and has been known to the Pacific Coast trade for twenty years.

Like a lar;<e proportion of the family he is of more than average height, lie is well

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built, lithe and active and lull of physical energy. He was born in Swampscott, Mass , his father being a sea captain. He received

his education in Marblehead, Mass., and be- gan his life work in Salem in connection with the dry goods trade. Here he married Mar- garet S. Preston, daughter of John Preston, one of Salem's must esteemed citizens, but in 1863 removed to New York, there to take a position in the uptown house, in the silk department, of the celebrated firm of A. T. Stewart \- Co. Here he remained for up- wards of two years, when lie accepted an advantageous offer in the wholesale woolen and cloak trade and traveled as commercial man through the Western States for two years more. Upon the termination of this engagement, he was induced to enter the newspaper business. In connection with C. H. Sweetzer he conducted the New York Evening Mail. While lie wrote considerably for the paper his principal charge was the business end of it, and although this was an entirely new undertaking to him, he soon built up a line advertising trade, and its dis- play columns were Tilled with paying ads. He was ubiquitous in his work. No oppor- tunity he let escape, anil as a consequence the paper soon had a good income and was on a successful footing. While so engaged he attracted the attention of the Gorham Manufacturing Company people. Always upon the lookout for able, intelligent men, they made him a flattering offer to enter their service, and this he accepted.

For two years he was in the New York office and for ten years after that he traveled all over the United States in their interest.

In New York he joined Howard Lodge, F. & A. M. This was in 1867. Out here in Sau Francisco he has not had the time to at- tend to any orders or societies, however, but he still remains affiliated with his home lodge.

In [879 when Mr. Haskell came to Califor- nia, he had acquired a broad experience, his judgment was sound and practical, and he believed that he could do well upon his own account here in S.m Francisco. He be- lieved, and justly, that lie was able to make a business that would pay, and opened a manufacturing jewelry establishment here. His anticipations have been more than real- ized, and the house today is oik- of the most prosperous upon the coast. Mr. Muegge who became his partner in 1881 was brought out to California by Mr. Haskell. He had been engaged as a clerk in New York, and after- wards was with Mr. Haskell her; until he became associated with the linn.

When Mr. Haskell began it was with the agency for the following leading New York houses:Enos, Richardson & Co., ]■'.. ha Rich arils & Co., and \Vood& Hughes. These he has re- tained down all the years, and since then he

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rency for other jewelry :s, also representatve in not alone in this country,

Mr. Haskell is a man of the world in the best meaning of tin- term, lie has a broad and varied experience and is familiar with nearly every section of the Union. For many years before coming to California he was prominent in commercial life, as stated, and was engaged for different periods in other branches of trade as well as in jewelry. He gained a practical experience indeed in sev- eral radicall) distinct businesses so that we have very lew so thoroughly informed in business affairs generally as he is. Well ed- ucated, a man of liberal ideas, devoted to home life, thoroughly Californian, and taking an active interest upon the best side of poli- tical life, lie is a credit to the family and the name.

It is largely due to the energy, the ability and push of Mr. Reuben R. Haskell that the existence of this Journal is due. When the days were dark and the rest of us doubted the success of the enterprise it was Reuben R. Haskell's vim and insistence that made the publication of the litst number a surety and success. His taste and good judgment, drawn from his experience of the New York Mail induced the rest of the Board to put the JOURNAL into the artistic shape in which it now appears.

This tentative effort to merely outline his active, laborious, prudent and enterprising life, is a study which does not really do jus- tice to the man. But Mr. Haskell has been so modest that all that the biographer could obtain was simply the bare facts of his life. M. Y. 0.

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THOMAS 11ASKKI.I., his ureat-grandfather, married Anna .Uwood; I1.1T live children, Thomas, Solomon, I'.enjamin, William ami |ohn.

IiKNJAMIN, his grandfather, married l.vdia Free 111 111; 111 irri I at Host Talmout'h ; had ten

■ i;..ni, Hannah, Sarah, I'arsons mid I'nllv.

L'ARSONS, his father, married II innah Unit; she was horn |ulv 17, 17S1; died December 25, 1S56; h<'

was 1 1 at I-.i1iik.hiIi (I. Lobel 27, [777;

Albany, Octohei VII my fill) 6, 1S29;

had nine children, Parsons, Hannah, friah II., S mi- ni II'. n n-iil 11., Sarah A . Lvdia I'.. Marv Ann and Hannah.

IsAMI'l'I. 1'IItl.l.lI'S, married Irene Cuinmillgs;

rn August 20, iSy; she died December S,

in Albam fune '•. 1S0S; married al

Vlbain December.!, 1S62; had two children Stepben

1\ ami Nano 1 .

Mr. Willabe Haskell, one of our people, is the librarian of the Yale University Reading 100m, New Haven, Conn., and is quite an

authority upon genealogical matters.

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JOHN LELAND 1 1 ASK ELI.

The portrait found above is the- portrait of John I, eland Haskell ofSan Francisco, formerly one of the most extensive contractors and builders of the city who accumulated a for- tune in his business, who is now retired and who resides at number 2219 Van Ness Ave- nue, in this city.

Mr. Haskell has been noted during his residence at his present home as an enter- tainer par excellence, and this was e: so during the time that his deceased wife was the hostess. Their musical, artistic and social entertainments were pronounced the finest and most enjoyable that their many friends had the privilege of attending. Their daughter, Blanche, was noted foi her musical ability, and for the artistic fervor of her recitals.

Mr. John 1. eland Haskell's father was a distinguished and honorable citizen of his

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birthplace. His word was his bond audit was never stained. During his life of seven- ty-six years, he was the superintendent of the Sal. bath school of the First Congrega- tional church of Peru, Mass., for many years. In the absence of the pastor, at a regular service, he would take Ins place, reading a sermon, selected from some able writer. On the death nf Smith Phillips, who had been deacon in the church for forty years, Mr. Haskell's father Kbenezer was elected to that oflke and held it for near thirty years, and until he moved to an adjoining town, Hinsdale. His grandfather, Phillips, was the Rothschild of his native town, ready at all times to loan any amount of money re- quired on -ood indorsed notes, or other security. His mother Lydia was the pride of the village, and the best mother that ever raised a family or presided over a house, to say nothing of her capacity for entertaining friends and supplying them with the good

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things that keep body and soul together, a true Christian, always in her place at church, Sal. Lath school and societies connected with

church work. She lived and died one of Cud's Hue children.

Mi. John I. eland Haskell the subject of this sketch was horn in Peru, Mass., January 12, 1827. He came of the good old Massachus etts stock, and is today although seventy years of age a typical representative of the family, youthful in figure, with sparkling exes and a bright and expressive face. His manners are particularly those of Hie old school; courteous, low-voiced, and yet enthus- iastic when upon subjects of interest.

For the tirst seventeen years of his life he luckily lived upon a farm and the training that he here received has been of valuable use to him in alter years. At the age of seventeen he went into the country store and laid the foundation for his business edu- cation, staying in that particular place two years, lie then removed to New Bedford, Mass.. where his training secured him a bet- ter position in that town, but in the same line of business. William Bradford, the well- known merchant, then employed him as a traveling salesman for about two years longer, in which employment he gave such satisfac- tion that he was thereafter employed at Boston in one of the largest firms in Mas- sachusetts. Meanwhile, however, he had managed stores at Natucket, Kdgerton, Taun- ton, and Lynn, Mass.

In Boston he was engaged by the cele- brated firmof George W. Warren & Co., which is now Jordan Marsh ci Co. He remained there until he came to California. He arrived in San Francisco on the 26th day of July, 1850, thus being one of the earliest of our pioneers, having come by the way of the Isthmus of Panama, arriving there at a time when there was a congestion of traffic and being one of those adventurous spirits who refused to wait for the regular steamers, but took a sailing vessel instead. Of course he first visited the mines, but after a short ex- perience w hich included a residence in Sacra- mento during the terrible cholera lime where the dead were carried out by hundreds, he returned to San Francisco and began his successful work as a contractor and builder.

He married his first wife in San Francisco in 1851; she died in 1S7S. Scores of the best buildings in San Francisco have been con- structed by him, and hardly an old resident of the city but knows him either personally or by reputation.

His second marriage was in 1884 to Mrs. Virginia B. Monahan, a widow with two children, William and Blanche. Blam hcdicd in 1894, and William still lives with him.

Mis. Virginia B. Haskell was a remarkably accomplished woman; a painter, a designer, and an artist. Mr. Haskell's home on Van

Ness Avenue is filled with the evidences o' her ability, and his only grief is her unfor- tunate death not a year ago. A landscape of Mount I loud painted by her was taken by me, through an excusable mistake for one of Bierstadt's, and her painting of figures and of still life, is remarkably able.

Tin; grandson of Mr. Haskell and the joy of his hie and the sunshine of his home, is little Blanchard. Son of his stepdaughter, Blanche, born Sept. 24, 1894. A little fellow who just now wears pants upon holidays only, and who plays billiards with hisgrandpa inthe billiard room and generally beats the old man.

When 1 was out there one evening he was introduced to me, and he sized me up and then he came to me with the air of a cavalier of Prince Charles time and said, "I am glad to see another Haskell."

Mr. John L. Haskell's father's christian name was Ebenezer. He was bom in 1704- His grandfather's name was Roger Haskell, born either in Dorchester or Salem, Mass. Mr. Haskell has one surviving sister, Mrs. Sophronia Combs of Chester, Mas.,

His grandfather died at the advanced age of ninety-eight years in Peru, Mass., and it seems to me alter looking overthe genealogy of thousands of Haskells that we have a very happy habit of living far beyond the Biblical age. I know that the old saw is that the good die young but we are a family where the exception proves the rule.

The mother of Mr. Haskell was a Phillips, daughter of Smith Phillips who died in 1S41 at eighty-six years of age. More than one of the Haskells have married into the Phil- lips family. That is what make the Phillips family look so proud.

In a previous connection of Mr. Haskell's family they had alliances with the 1. elands, who were uncles of Lydia Phillips of Amhurst. Mass., among whom are two pro- fessors of Amhurst College, and especially the celebrated Rev. John 1. eland, (after whom Mr. Haskell was named and who lived in Charleston, South Carolina, for many years and was a settled pastor of the First Congre- gational church of that city for twenty or thirty years, afterward moving to Savannah, where he died in the seventies), from whom, or his or their descendants the editor of this JOURNAL would esteem it a favor to hear in connection with this article, and in elucida- tion of the ancient history of this branch.

Mr. Haskell has been for years a man of affairs and devoted entirely to his business. Coming to California as early as he did he- brought with him none of the family records; and the editor ol this JOURNAL would esteem it a special favor to be assisted by any cor- respondent with any facts concerning births, deaths, dates or any other information con- cerning the earlier history of Mr. John l.i - land Haskell's branch.

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FEBRUARY: [SoS.

The delay in the issuance of this issue- is largely due to complications with the Post Office department.

OUR NEW MEMBER.

The readers of the Haske i.i. Journal will notice in this second (issue the-addition of a fourth name to its Board of Publication. It is with some considerable gratification that we editorially announce that John L. Has- kell, one of the earliest and most successful of California pioneers has come in with tis to insure the success of this enterprise.

His portrait and biography will be found upon another page.

GRANDMOTHER SOUP, While T am not given at all to preaching, although I was six months at Oberliu College studying for ministry, (then dropped tor itu vcu -nee ). vet in my I'm tv one years of life I have ill lived at :i number ol conclusions. Ail ommvcious leader of novels, two partic- ular books have struck my fancy and have- set a moral, drawn from romance, that my life has verified. These hooks are 'The Three Guardsmen" by Duma'-, and "The Duchess of Langeais" of Balzac. Both of them enforce that divine truth in nature which is so finely exemplified in Swinburne's poem, "A Song in Time of Order," where he says that when three men hold together tyrrany and the kingdoms are less by three. Now this is rather discursive for an editor- ial, but I mention all my provocatives to thought because I know that the Haskell crowd can appreciate them.

It is true, as sod by Balzac, that if but three men would stand together they could run the whole of France. It is a thousand- fold truer that if the five or tell thousand ll.i-.kcIN in the United States would stand together, would fight together, would work together, one tor all ami all for one, that be- fore very long your son might be President of the United States and my sou (when he grows up), might be usher to the private sec- retai \ ol the consul at Samo i.

Truly, it seems to me that it is the bounden duty ol every person of the Haskell name and blood in this broad, splendid Republic that stretches from ocean to ocean, from the Arctic almost to the lujuator,— that it is his bounden duty to patronize his own race, his own blood and his own tribe. Why, three thousand years ago even when our ancestor-, set out from the plains of Central Asia on their Northern exodus, when grub was short and their stomachs were empty they did not go outside their own family, their own family went inside —but (when they were hungry

procession; grandmother soup was then weekly bill of tare.

Now I don't mean to say that Haskell's Wheat flakes taste like our ancient ances- tors, but nevertheless the flakes are pretty

A SPECIAL NOTICE.

The expense of sending out the first num- ber of the. Haskkll Journal to the live- thousand of our name and blood in the United States has been nearly live hundred dollars. The expense of the second issue is about the same. This is an advanci i the promoters to the subscribers. They call reciprocate, can lighten our burdens, can en- sure our success, can secure an enlarged and improved issue hereafter, by sending in their subscription AT ONClv. This is a matter that ought to admit of no delay. Subscribe not only for yourself but for all of your chil- dren who will each need and desire to pre serve a copy.

If we do the work VOU ought to co-operate as far as lies in your power.

A subscription blank will be found issued herewith as a supplement. Please tear it out, fill it out and forward with a post office order as soon as possible.

Commencing with the next number no copies can be sent except to those who have- paid up their subscription. This rule is im- perative and has 110 exception, 'file amount is small, the benefits large, the work expens- ive, and you should do your share.

On account of the scarcity of January mini- • March 1, 1898, their price will be raised to fifty cents a copy.

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TWO GREAT NOVELS.

In another portion of this paper reference has been made to two of the most celebrated novels written in this century. Every one iif oui readers has probably perused the books; but they should be read again; and there is an underlying lesson in each, outside of the swing, the swirl, the magnificient rush, and the splendid adventures of their respective !u roes.

The French colonel who engaged in his behalf the old soldiers of Napoleon, and with tln.ni stormed the Island Convent, where the lovely Duchess de Langeais was imprisoned, was of the same type, enforced the same les- sons of constancy, loyalty, friendship and unity that D'Artagnan did when he took the three musketeers into the Bastion of St Ger- vais at the siege ol I. a Rochelle, and ate his pie while the muskets prophet.

There is a profound, nay, almost a solemn lesson to be learned from these two hooks, and that is this, — as I have said before and Swinburne lias it, — that if but three men stand together the kingdoms are less by three.

How absurd it is to think of it, that when there are of us in this laud, new bom to modern history and yet piegnant with every possibility of success, of >;lor>-, of beauty, of joy and of delight,— how absurd it is to think that there should be of one tribe (who, bless their souls, look alike, think alike, and have not populated our jails,) -how absurb it is, 1 say, to think that live thousand of this crowd cannot STAND TOGETHER and work and light for cath other!

Don't you think so yourself.

Well then: if you think as I do let us stand together.

COMMON SENSE.

I do not know that outside the- question of persistence of habit there is in nature, any law of evolution more certain than that of tribalgregariousness. I hope the crowd will not faint when they read this word, and so I will explain. I eat mush for breakfast and it costs me money and sometimes gives me indi- gestion, but since 1 have known o( the Has- kell wheat Hakes [support whatever indiges tion tomes with an equanimity and a pride of family that Roget de lleiskell might have envied on the battle held of Hastings.

There is one of our i iaskells that furnishes lothes.

Lives there a Haskell with a soul so dead That never to himself hath said

shall be clothed from foot to head In Haskell clothes— or hare instead?

There is an attorney in Beverly, Massachu- setts. His name is I'lysses (',. (('.rant was named alter him.) Whoever desires to col- lect a bill (from fellows whoarenot Haskells) ill the old mother state might do well to con- sult him.

There is a fellow ill Kansas who can draw you plans tor a Haskell castle like old Rowl- stone on Escley Brook. It is true that his brother was a Congressman, but to the best of our knowledge the architect has never yet i tin i'n "Hi, i . mi, I his brother is dead.

And if any one of you think of getting a wife, the California woolen mills ..mi givi M,u a blanket which is equally as warm and never talks back. You can put diamonds on ii. too, it vou buy them of a Haskell; ami then you can get them back when you get a divorce from the blanket.

But seriously, there seems to be no possi- bility ascertainable to common sense which would negative the proposition that five thousand of us here should not be able by standing together, lighting together, (and es- pecially by together putting up two dollars apiece for the Haskell Journal,) making

ourselves felt in the Republic that we have done so much to build.

The trouble with our crowd is this: we are too modest. 1 am the most modest man vou

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JOI RN VI. amounts to about live hundred di.l lars per month. This expense for a limited time has been guaranteed by the Board ol Publication, but it cannot be kept up indefi- nitely unless every Haskell in the United States responds with his small proportion, our subscription price, two dollars hive thousand copies of the Journal are being published and are sent to the various names who have already, directly or indirei tly, sig- nified their desire for the publication, hrom the additional names received in the past twenty days we are of the opinion that the next edition will require two or three thous- and additional copies.

This number is sent to all whose names we have, whether they have subscribed and paid their money or not: but this drain upon our resources cannot longer continue.

Vou will find annexed and bound in as a supplement to this issue, and as a portion of tins paper, a blank form of subscription which you are requested to fill out. and to accom- pany the same with a post office order, mak-

h'i ant isco.

It lakes money to print genealogies ami if we do the work you ought to share the cost.

There will be no new editions of back numbers printed; the expense is too great.

And the price of back numbers of the Jouknal, on account of the present is now raised to fifty cents per copy, with this exception only: that subscriptions re- ceived before the March issue can probably be tilled without extra charge.

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AUNT HITTY HASKELL.

The more that I contrast the history of the plain, simple, common people that comprise the Haskell family, and their quiet devotion to principle, the more 1 am glad to bear our name. Of course, when 1 remember that the first of our name, of whom we have historical proof, killed an abbot at the altar 1 remember the adage that every family has a skeleton in in closet. But since that was done in the year S75, or thereabouts, probably the skel- eton is now dust. I admire extremely the brave but idotic action of Roget de Haskell in rushing through a storm of arrows to an apple tree upon a mountain to get for Wil- liam the Conqueror what afterwards he- came a New Kngland pippin. I thought it a splendid proposition when an archbishop bearded a king and demanded the right to Continue to take a tenth of his peoples' pro- duce for the sake of the Lord. 1 have no ob- jection to Surrey Haskell fighting for Prince Charlie, and 1 have a sincere admiration for William, Mark and Roger, who came over in a leaky ship to Massachusetts for the purpose of seeing witches burned at the stake in that locality.

But there is one thing that I am proud of, and that every Haskell in America ought to teach to his children, and that is the magnifi- cent and splendid address of Wendell Phillips, (that John the Baptist of the freedom of humanity, that herald of Christ and the Millennium,) that address and requiem that he delivered over the body of Aunt llitly Haskell in October, [878.

George Washington, according to "Spark's Life and Letters," complimented Prince Has- kell more than once for his distinguished services foi our political independence, but this thing of Wendell Phillips upon Aunt Hitty Haskell, who is the aunt of every one of us, has the lire, the force and the pathos, that in my opinion not even Jefferson nor Henry could surpass.

It is long but it is good. It will be pub- lished in the future in the JOURNAL, and with it if possible a picture of the splendid woman who, as Phillips said in his address, was

the rarest intellectuality; wi

111. m's brain wedded to a woman's instinct.

This friend ol Phillip's of Lincoln, of C.arri- son, of Knierson, of Thoreau, of Pillsbury, — this woman ennobles our race, and makes us glad that we are living men and women and

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PERILS OF GENEOLOGICAL RESEARCH. Among the hundreds of letters that 1 have received have been quite a number asking the editor personally for his own genealogy. His modesty has prevented him thus far from giving it. lint sine the HASKELL JOURNAL is not published for profit, and since every

Haskell in the United States is presumed to be upon the editorial staff, and their assist- ance is demanded in solving the various problems connected with the Haskell history, I have made up my mind to yield to the re- quest noted above and to state something concerning my own origin.

I married a widow who had a stepdaughter. My father married the stepdaugter. That made my wife the mother-in-law of hi i father-in-law and made my stepdaughter my stepmother, and thus my father became my stepson. Then my stepmother, stepdaughter of my wife, had a son; the boy was, of course, my biother because he was my father's son. But he was also the son of my wile's step- daughter and therefore her grandson. And that made me the grandfather of my step- brother. Then my wife hail a sou, his name is Astaroth; thus my mother-in-law, the step- sister of my son is also his grandmother be- cause he is her stepson's child. My father- in-law is the brother-in-law of my child be- cause his stepsister is his wife. I am there- fore the brother of my own son who is also the child of my step-grandmother. I am my mother's brother-in-law, her name is Maria liriggs Haskell and she is still living after this. My wife is her own child's aunt and I always thought there was something weak in her mental make-up or she would never have- married me. But the peculiar and the most peculiar matter of the whole affair is this, that while my son is my father's nephew I am certainly, absolutely, and conclusively my own grandfather. And this can be demon- strated by all the rules of logic.

Of course there is not a word of truth in all this thing but it proves that Shoel itself has no terrors like those inflicted upon the editor in the attempt to connect the missing links in the Haskell family, without further information, and it enforces the lesson that every one of you people ought to be particu- lar in filling out your blanks so as not to mix up the relations too much.

A mix-up is bad for the community.

I trust that this will satisfy those people who want to know where I came from, and especially that it will make you all careful concerning your dates and names, and induce you all to send #2 so you may know where you are at hereafter.

A REQUEST. It will be a personal favor to the editors of the Journal if every Haskell will send to us immediately the name of every Haskell by birth, blood or marriage that they know of, so that we can send them, before the edition is exhausted, a copy of the Journal. The country is so wide and our family so numer- ous that it is virtually impossible through the libraries or through the correspondence in hand to find more than fifty per cent of the

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people who arc interested in this publication. This request is an urgent one, and it is suggested tbat you do not omit attending to it at once. Send us every possible name whether or not you think we have it. If we have already sent to them we will find the name upon our list; it' not the person who re- ceives it will be under obligation to you for furnishing us the name.

Please do not sleep upon this mattei but make out a list of everv person that you know of the Haskell birth or blood and send it tons at once.

A FINANCIAL WARNING. A large number of the subscribers to the Haskem. Journal, in payment of their sub- scriptions of two dollars, have forw ard( d us checks drawn in the eastern states upon their own local banks. Iiach check has In en drawn for the sum of two dollars; and each check in order to be collected must be de- posited here in our San Francisco banks for collection, and when collected the collection charges are deducted. These charges are from twenty to thirty per cent; and the delay which is of far more importance, is from two to three weeks. Now, the price of the H.\s- KEI.L JOUI.NAL was placed at the lowest pos- sible figure, to wit, S2. Please hereafter send by postal card.

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A dispatch to the New Yoik /, . riial from Minneapolis under date of February S, de- votes a half column to a threat of Samuel Hill, a Minnsa polis millionaire that "he would cut out the heart and eat it." of William I'.. Haskell, the editor and manager of the Min- neapolis Tribune, if he lost a suil which he had pending against that newspaper. He- did lose the suit. Mr. Haskell's heart is all right as yet, and he is not liable to furnish any banquets; he is a Harvard graduate and not only mentally but physically cultured.

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Rvery Haskell by birth, blood or marriage who visits San Francisco is cordially invited to call at the office of the Joi'RNAI..

several others on toot. Mis. !•',. Parkhurst and her children win; were left at the house, expected nothing but instant death from the hands of the enemy, tin their approach, however, having taken her eldest .son pris- oner, they ordered her and her five children to leave the house. Obeying these com- mands, she tied to the woods and there re- mained in safety until the foe had Kit the place.

Soon after Stevens had started with those who were on foot, his dog coming in his way caused him to stumble, and so impeded his progress that he was obliged to take to the woods to save his life. The Indians pursu- ing with frightful yells, the unprotected pedestrians who had been so unfortunately deprived of their protector, soon overtook them. Hut the enemy were loo intent on plunder to be impeded by a great number of captive women and children, and ol this company Gardner Rix, a boy of fourteen years old, was alone made prisoner. Ap- proaching the house ol Mr. Benedict, and having noticed him on the opposite side ot a small str,..ani which owed near by, the Indians beckoned to him to come over to them. instead of seconding their wishes, he quietly stole away and secreting himself under a log, remained in safety till the danger had passed. While in this situation, the enemy in pursuit of him were at one

him concealment, and he learned by their com-, rsatiou that they were re-solved to tomahawk him should they find him. After going down the river about forte rods further, and capturing a young man named Aveiv, thev concluded to return. Coming to the house of Tilly Parkhurst. situated about six miles from the place where they entered Royalton, they II red at his son, Phineas, who had just returned from the east side of the river, whither he hail gone to warn the settlers.

The Indians who went down on the east side of the river, having gone asfarasthe house ol 1 ' rt, in Sharon, made

captive his nephew, Nathaniel Gill , and

set out on their return. As they retraced their steps, they fired every building within sight, devastated fields, destroyed cattle, wasted the garnered crops, and spread de- solation 'ion with unsparing hand.

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Daniel Havens — whose escape has been already mentioned— as soon as the savages had gone, ventured from his hiding place, and coming to the house of General Stevens, gave notice that the Indians were "as thick as the devil." and ieft the family io their fate. A hoy named Daniel Waller, who lived .1'. the house, hearing that the Indians were coming, started immediately to bear the information to the General, but had pro- ceeded a short distant only when he was met and captured by the foe. Mrs. Stevens, who had received the first intimation of their approach from the terrified Havens, had just arisen from bed with her infant in her arms, when the third party who had gone up the river entered the house. Having .searched the dwelling for men, hut without success, they carried the beds out of doors. and cutting them open, threw the feathers in the air and amused themselves by watch- ing their eddying convolutions. Alter plundering the house, they hade Mrs. Stevens "lie gone or they would burn." Glad of an opportunity to escape, she hast- ened with her child to the adjacent woods, where she remained until the enemy had left the town. After firing the dwelling ami barn thej passed up the river as far as Mr. Durker's, where they took two of his sons. Adam and Andrew prisoners. Attracted by a smoke, they directed their course towards it. and finding a young man, named PlUNCK Haskell, busily engaged in clearing land for a settlement they added him to the numberof their captives.

At the house of Klias Curtis they took him and Peter Mason prisoners, and commenced the work of plunder. While thus engaged, John Kent rode up to the door, intending to get his horse shod, but had scarcely dis- mounted when he was seized by the hair of his head and pulled violently over back- wards. A man named Chaffer who was ap- proaching, seeing that Kent had been taken, junped from his horse, and by pursuing a course which enabled him to use a black smith's shop to cover his retreat, effected his escape. He immediately set out for the house of Mr. llendee, where he lived, and on reaching it gave notice of the on coming danger, llendee, having directed his wile- to take her little boy about seven years old, and her daughter still younger, and hasten to the house of a neighbor, started to go to Bethel for the purpose of giving the alarm at the fort. Mrs. llendee had not proceeded tar when she was met by a party of Indians who deprived her of her son. Anxious for his fate she asked what the> intended to do with him. They told her they should "make a soldier of him," and '.hen hurried him away, while the weeping mother listened to - for help, as he vainly endeavored to free himself from the grasp of his savage

masters. Having returned to the house ol

Mr. Havens with, their prisoners and plunder they divided the latter between the different numbers of the party, and, having set fire to the house and ham, started for Canada, be- tween two and three o'clock in the afternoon. Crossing the hills in Timbridge, King west of the first branch of White river, they pro- ceeded to Randolph, in which town they en- camped on the banks of the second branch of White river, having gone a distance of ten miles.

As the attack had been so sudden and un- expected, the inhabitants had not only been unable to combine for resistance, but had in many cases, through terrible fear, failed to exert the ordinary means of self-preservation. So many hours had now passed since the first appearance of the I ndians, that the alarm had spread far and near, and had caused the most intense agitation. As the news was borne through the villages that borderthe banks of the Connecticut, the bold father and the im- petus son, the hired laborer and the flourish- ing farmer, all who could be spared with safety, left their firesides and homes without further warning, and marched directly to the scene of plunder and devastation. By even- ing several hundred of resolute men had col- lected at the place where the attack was first commenced, ready to adopt such measures as the emergency demanded.

Here a company was organized, and Col. John House, of Hanover, New Hampshire, who had served several campaigns in the continental army, was chosen commander. In tiu darkness of mid-night, through a waste of wilderness, "guided by a few marked trees amidst the logs, rocks, and hills, with which the country abounded," this undisciplined corps began their march in quest of the sav- age army. Continuing their pursuit with ardor, they reached the spot where the last houses had been destroyed, and, becoming aware that they were approaching the enemy, proceeded with more caution. The Indians had placed their sentries nearly half a mile in the rear of their encampment, at a spot situated a few rods from the river. Near this spot was a small hill, and by the side of the adjacent path stood a number of large trees behind which were posted the Indian guards. A large log was the only bridge provided for crossing the river, and this served for foot-passengers only. Some of House's men were mounted, others were on loot, and their precarious situation at the river rendered it necessary for them to ob- serve the utmost circumspection. The front guard passed, the log and the Indian sentries in safety. About one third of the main body had 1 rossed the stream, and the van had ar- rived within a few yards of the enemy's guards, when they were fired on from behind tlie tiees and one man was wounded. The

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fire was returned by the Americans. One of the Indians was killed and two were wound- ed. The sentries then left their ambush and ran off to the Indian camp, while House's men advanced a little further and then formed themselves within three hundred yards of the enemy's rendezvous and awaited the approach of day. "Great consternation," observes Williams, "now prevailed among the savages. Much fatigued, and in a profound slumber after one of their ravenous suppers, the alarm tilled them with fear and confusion." But they were not deficient in stratagem, nor destitute of policy. Taking one of their prisoners named Kneeland, an aged num. they sent him to the Americans with the in- formation that the Indians would instantly put all the captives to death, should an at- tack lie made. To Giles Gibbs and Joseph Kneeland the rage of the savages had already proved fatal. The former, expecting that his friends would relieve him and his compan- ions, had refused to march. He was after- wards found with a tomahawk buried deep in his head. The latter was killed and scalped to avenge the death of the Indian who had been shot by the Americans. As soon as the old man, Kneeland, had been sent to the camp of the pursuers, the Indians renewed their flight with the utmost expedi- tion, leaving at their encampment a lar^e quantity of the plunder, and nearly all the horses they had taken. Having placed their best warriors in the rear to cover their retreat, they crossed White river early on the morn- ing of the 17th, proceeded up the west bank, and having made prisoner of Zadock Steele, who resided in the north part of Randolph, passed through the west part of Brookfield, and on reaching Berlin encamped on Dog river, not many miles from the place where the capital of the state is now located. To secure the captives more effectually at night, a rope was passed around their bodies as they lay upon the ground, and between each of them and upon the rope was placed an Indian. By this device no two of the prisoners weie allowed to lie together, and attempt atescape was rendered useless. Continuing their course down Dog rivei the party struck On- ion river, alone; which they passed until they reached Lake Champlain on the 20th. Here the Indians found the batteau in which they had come on their march to Royalton. Embarking in these they, with their cap- tives, commenced their journey down the lake, and after stopping at Grand Isle and the Isle Ant Noix, reached St. John's on the 22nd, having been nearly seven days on the route. On the following day the captives were taken to Caughnawaga. where many of them were temporarily adopted by the In- dian families, residents at that place. After remaining in this condition for a few weeks, they were taken to Montreal in the latter

part of November, and were there sold to the British as prisoners of war "for a half Joe" each. Of the twenty-five who were carried away, one, Adam Durkee. died while in cap- tivity. Twenty-three were exchangedor re- deemed, and returned to their friends during the ensuing summer. The remaining prison- er, Zadock Steele, after enduring a long con- finement and being subjected to many uarh- ships, finally effected his escape and reached the home of his parents in Ellington, Con- necticut, on the i;th of October, 1782, just two years from the day on which he was taken by the Indians at Randolph.

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A Short Account of the Descendants of Win. Haskell of Gloucester, Mass.

12 Wm.uam Haskei.l.,3 known as "En-

sign Haskell," was born .November ■>, I ^> ~> >.

resided in Gloucester, Mass., where he died January 17, [731, leaving an estate of 2,565 pounds of which vessels, warehouse, salt arrd a negro man formed a part.

He settled on or near the ancestral prop- erty which being favorably situated for maritime pursuits, he engaged in both fishing and agricultural employments. He was orre of those who in the first quarter of the eighteenth century engaged irr a vigorous prosecution of the fishing business, but he- appears to have been the only one who so carried it on in the section where he lived, and the settlement of his estate shows that he- pursued it with success.

He was usually called "Ensign Haskell" from the office he held in a military com- pany, arrd was deacon of the second church for a few years prior to his death; also a selectman at different times.

He married September S, 1692, Abigail Davis, probably the daughter of Captain James Davis, who died December .v. ' 7.V. at tire age of fifty-eight years, and by whom he had the following children:

52 i William, b. 1693.

53 ii Mark, b. August to, 1695.

5< iii Elizabeth, b. Nov. 29, 1696; in. John Par- sous, 1 line 6, 17 1 r >.

55 iv Abigail, b. Aug. 16, 1699; in. John Tyler,

I'eLl 11.11 \ 22, 172.'.

56 v Jemima, 1). December r. 17114; 111. Joseph

1) r,is. Sept, 21, 1732, and Lieut. Thomas Allen in 17s*.

57 vi Jedediah, b. Jufj 31, 170S.1l. Aug. 17.

17 18.

58 vii Keziah, b. Keb. 28, 1711; '•'- Samuel

I lerrick, Jan. ;s, 1 7 3 1 .

59 viii fames, b. Sept. 24, 171-'; ui. Anna Good-

hue, in 17;.,. and was dismissed from the church in Gloucester, Mass., to tin- church in Harvard, Ma-s..in 1751..

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13 Joseph Haskells was hem April 20,

1673. resided in Gloucester, M;i»., and died there April 11, 171s, aged forty-three years. In his will lie directed that his son NIoses should "learn the trade and mystery ofa cooper" which was his own trade.

He married March [9, 1696, Rachel lil- well. the date of whose death is not known, by whom he had the following children:

60 i Rachel, b. March 13, 1697; m Jeremiah Riggs, Dec. 31, 17 i ' ».

<n ii Joseph, b. Dec. r(>, [698; 111. Max 17, 1720, Mary Woodward, and lived to be up- wards of ninety years of age. He was dismissed from the church in Gloucester, Mass. to the church in 1 1 11 v .11.1, Mass., in 17 ;>

62 iii Abraham, b. March 8, 17m; m. Amy

Stevens. Hew. is dismissed from the church in 1 Sloucester, Muss., to the church in Stratham, Mass., in 1732.

63 tv Hannah, b. June 28, [703; m, James God-

frey, Hi ne 1, 1723. (.4 v Moses, b. Dec. 25, 1705; d. probably be- fore rca< hing manhood (.5 vi Stephen, b. July 7. 1708; d. probably he- lure reaching manhoi id. t\(< vii Andrew, b. Dee. (•, 1711; 111. Elinor

Haskell, netol.tr -,. 17 -,7. 1.7 viii Jeremiah, b. October 23, 1711.

15 Henry Haskell,., was born April 2, 1678, and died in Harvard, Mass,, date un- known, to which place he removed from Gloucester, Mass., in 1735.

He married, Ruth, probably York, Jan. 13, 1703, and was dismissed from the church in Gloucester, Mass,, to the church in Harvard, Mass., upon his removal thereto.

One of his daughters married a Mead, probably after the removal to Harvard.

His children were as follows: f.s i Ruth, l>. Oct. 7, 17"-,; d ( let. is, [703.

in) ii Mary, b. Nov. n, 17114; "'■ Benjamin Ray, of I'almouth, now 1'.. aland, Mc, Maj 12, 1726.

70 iii Henry, b. July 5, 1706; m. Huldah Smith

in 1731 ; was dismissi-d Imni the church in Gloucester, Mass., to the church iu Harvard, Mass., 111 17 -,7.

71 iv Ruth.b. August 27, 1709. She or her

sister I.vdia married a Mead.

72 v Sarah, b. Augnst 19, 171?; in. Nathaniel

Brav, November 22, 173V 7; m Samuel, t> Seplouihei .;. 1713.

(IKNKAI.OGY OF U. W. IIASKHI ' . iMirnislii'd li\ S. 1". Haskell and Mrs, 1,. IV. Ilaskc

1111, Mi

Joel Haskell, born June 8, 1797

married December 17. 1S17, at Camden; died .\

2, 1S52, at Liberty, Me,; married Sarah V. Jin

li 111 August S. [N02, at V amdeli. Me , ;

who died December 29, 1S77, at Liberty. Mr. cim.Dki.N 01' 1 in-: Aiiovi-: Joab 1: Haskell, born Ma-. 9, 1819, al Camden, I*

died October -,. isis, at Liberty Me. Elizabeth e'. Haskell, bom August 27, 1820, at Ci

den. Me.; married December is, 1843, by Dai

him-mi, died l-'cbruary 10, is'-s at Libert) Mi

William Haskell, hi.ni I line 1, 1S22, at Camden. Mi died April n. iS,,o, at K.nklaiid. Mi-.

Joel W. Haskell, 1 1 Dcccmbei 27, 1823,11! 1 amdc

Me.; died September 17. 1884, at Moniville, Me.

Stephen 1'. Haskell, horn August 29, [825, al Libert Mc; Still livine at Liberty; and reouesied to cm I

v A. Haskell, I. >rn May 10, 1H27, at .-d May 1 1, is-, at Liberty, Me. u.-l Haskell, born May to, 1S28 at

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Is.,.,,- I.. Haskell, horn February 2 |, 1S32, al Libert

Me.; died M;n .-7, 1S47. lit I ibertj . Me. Sarah I- Haske'll, born Decembei 5, 1833, at Libert

Me.; died August 2(1, i.njs, ,,t Liberty, Me. Hill I-!. Haskell, hum October -'2, lN(Sa't Liberty, Mi

died March i-s, 1873, at Redwood i ily, Cal. ' Philip T. Haskell, bom June 5, iS^S, at Liberty, Me

died January 1. is.,|, at 1-Y.mkbnt, Me. George W. Haskell, born June ;, 184 1, at Libert

Mi . died July 10, 1841, al Liberty, Mc. Josiah A. Haskell, bom March 19," 1846, at Libert

Me.; still living at Monroe, Me.

Mr. Iturnette C. Haskell, lyG Market St., Francisco

DlJAR Sir: 1 have this da) been looking ovei IIaskkij. Journal, which I want to pronoui ijoot! thing. The Haskells" are worthy of a J01 md the Journal is worthy of the Haskells'. :lose find check for subscription. Wishing vou

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GENliALOliY 01; (J. R. IIASKKIJ..

27', Ninth slreet, Oakland Cal.

[ have two brothers living, one in Wyoming and one in Missouri, my birth place.

M\ father was a Vcrmonter. His name u is Daniel Thomas Haskell. He once had a brother in lies Moines, Iowa, in the dry goods business. 1 have never seen nor heard of him since my father died when I was eight years of age. I am now thirty. Send to my brothers, R. E. Haskell. Laramie City, Wyominj?, and D. I. Haskell, Gara, Genln Co., Mis- souri, for further information.

One of the largest firms in the country is the Wolterstoff-Haskell Range and huniacc company of St. Paul, Minn. Samuel Chaun- cey Haskell is the acting member of the linn, his great-grandfather being Samuel of Roch- ester and North [J rook fie Id, 1734-1820. There will latter appear in the Jofrnal an account of the experiences of one of his ancestors who was drawn as a juror in one of the celebrated witchcraft cases at Salem in [692. He was utterlv opposed to such proceedings and deemed them unjust and illegal. And at midnight preceding the trial, although drawn and summoned to appear, saddled his horse, packed his, s. id, lie -bags and rode from Salem to Boston and thence to Rochester. That

was the proper style of a man.

There is another American artist ill Paris who has recently been decorated with the grand cross of the Order of Nelusileof Prince ( itiy tie I.usignan, her name is Miss Mabel Percy Haskell,

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A PERSONAL NARATIVF

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IIV EDWARD \V. IIASKl'I.l.. Notk. — A correction in the Inst Kmu- is necessary.

it is stated that my mother, Roxv, married Lyman Stewart. There is an ellipsis here. Tin- sentence should read: "My mother married Kdward Wilder Haskell; my Aunt Roxey married Lyman Mnv.irl.

We removed from Barnard to Randolph when I was eight years of age. My step- father was a large farmer. lie also carried mi the business of tanner anil currier. The farm was one mile south of the village of Randolph Center.

Aftei a few years my stepfather moved to the village to live ami leased the farm. He owned three houses in the village and the family took possession ol the best. Here my stepfather erected a lurge tannery, ami en- tered extensively into the business, buying hides ami sheep pelts wherever to he found, principally in Boston and .New York: buying sheep and slaughtering them for their pelts and tallow and sending the fattest and best to Boston for fond, and manufacturing the hides into leather, the sheep skins into mo- rocco and kill, and both into boots and shoes for the Boston and New York market.

J. I,. French was brought from Boston to superintend the boot and shoe making de- partment. This business, which was suscept- ible of large profits or large losses. v\ as carried on about three years and then closed up at a very considerable loss. 1 was employed in the various departments where my service- were most needed. After the business was closed the family all returned to the farm to reside.

Here [ will remark incidently that my stepfather had been substituted as guardian in place of Danforth of Barnard, and that the property to which the heirs were entitled was swallowed in the unfortunate speculation above referred to. How much it was I have never taken the trouble to inquire but it must have been considerable.

As soon as we returned to the farm my stepfather decided that the least he could do to compensate the heirs for the loss of their property through him was to give them each a liberal education. Accordingly in my six- teenth year I commenced school at the academy at Randolph Center.

Hitherto I had only been at school during one term in the year viz: in the winter, and during the last two years none at all. So you will perceive that my advantages had been very limited.

1 commenced at the academy with I.atin, Arithmetic, Philosophy, Chemistry, etc., etc. The first winter after commencing school, 1 taught school two miles east of Randolph

Center. 1 was well up in Arithmetic, grnm- mer. geography, etc., etc., which was all that was necessary to be Latlgllt in the school in which 1 wasengaged. I came out with fly- ing colors,—:, c, 1 gave excellent satisfaction.

I had one scholar twenty-one years. He gave me no trouble. 1 was compelled to punish one large strapping girl, fifteen years of age, which I have always regretted. But in those days, in that part of the country, ii was not the practice to expell scholars for disobedience to authority. The teacher was required and expected to maintain authority and obedience.

One other instance 1 shall relate which I diil not regret, because its effect upon the discipline (if the school was so decisive that during the balance of the term my authority was respected. The scholars had become a< - customed to lose time in returning from school by sliding upon the ice ponds. It was such jolly fun they could not resist the tempt- ation.

On their return from school their services were required at home to milk the cows, iced the cattle and do the other usual chores per taining to a farmer's household. The par- ents complained to me in the matter and wished me to see that their children went directly home from school without stopping to play upon the ice. I can perceive now that it was their business and not mine; that after the children left the school house they were no longer under my control. Never- theless I gave the order, — and it was dis- obeyed. The parents of the very boy I was compelled to punish sent me word again in the matter. This boy was the ringleader, about fifteen years old and larger than my- self. The next morning [ was informed that my order had been disobeyed. 1 questioned the chief culprit. Yes, he had done so and should do so whenever he liked; he did not think I could have any control over him after he had left the school house. He was wrv independent and important, [told one of my scholars that I knew I could di pend upon to go out and g« I me a h good gads. He brought them into the school house — six feet long, beach. I took one of them, trimmed it very deliberately, reduced it to the length of about four feet put it through the Homes of the tire to take- out the frost, and then went to my desk and told John to walk out into the vacant space in the middle of the school room.

He refused to obey me. I stepped down from my desk and marched up to where he sat and commenced to slush him over the head and shoulders. A half do/en blows was sufficient to convince him that I meant business. He wilted and came out into the vacant Space as 1 had ordered him to do. "Now sir," said I, "take off your (.cat." ii'm i.c continued.)

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Occupation

gar Please return at once, filled out, to Hikxkttk ('.. Haskri.j. Kditor of the M vskri. Journal, [346 Markel St, San Francisco, Cal.

8 ■•' If this Mank is not

Please give on tins si your grandfather, your 1 death; date and place of 1 number, names, sex and 1

he following informati

and yourself; name

th; date and place of

nee, births and deaths

in relation to your great-grandfather,

une of wile and date of her birth and

his children; general remarks, etc.

THE

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[OHN LELAND HASKELL'S HISTORY.

FAMILY RECORD.

(Father) Ebeuezer Haskell born July 15, [804; died Jul) 19, is;,,; married Lydia Phillips April 13; is.",; I'erii Mass.

(Mother) Lyilia Phillips Haskell boru March 14, [8 dii d |ul\ [6, isss

(Children) A daughter, born March 28, 1825; died.

Richard Baxtei Haskell, born February 23, 1826; married Martha Frissel April 30, 1848. at Peru, Mass.; died January 1 1, 1S70; left two children, Byron and

John Leland Haskell, born June i.\ is.-;; married Eliza Ashton September ". 1851, at San Kraucisco; F.Iiza died Ma,. Ii 1 ;, is;s: married Virginia 11. Mon- ahanjune 12, 1S84, who died June 15. 1897, aged .13

Lydia Eliza Haskell, born March 14. 1832; died March 31, 1843

Marj Haskell, born Decembei 5, is;,; married Milo Stowell April .• ;. iv.s. Hinsdale, Mass.; died August 22, iHSq; bad four children; three, Marion, Mvron, Melvin, now residing in Detroit, Mich.

S Sophronia Haskell, born Februarj 9, 1S39; "lar- ried Charles M. Combs of Middlefield, Mass., Septem- ber 15, 1H5S; residt nt at present Chester, Mass.; lias seven children, six married and now living in Spriug- field, Mass.; Iheir nanus arc Cora, Arthur, John, Willis, Charles, Ada and Mabel.

Grandfather Roger Haskell, horn, at Dorchester, Mass., 1750; married in 1S40; died |8}6.

(Children) Roger Haskell, Zachariah, Simon, Hulda, Phinneas, Ebeuezer, Allen. Sarah. Lester and Lucy; Lucy married Dr. Hubbard, lived 111 New Bedford, Mass., came to California in 1849, made a large for- tune, returned to Mass. in 1850, moved to Kansas where he was living at last accounts.

Grandmother's lather. Smith Phillips, horn near Boston, Mass., about 1754; died [841. One son, Ebe- uezer, lived in Wdliainshuig, Mass., [S40.

Smith Phillips, married ; one soil lived in

Williamsburg, .Mass.

Smith Phillips, married M. A. I. eland (second wife) children, Polly, bom 1791; married A. Units; died

Electa, horn [796; died 1871; married a Pierce.

Lydia, horn 1707; died [SS5; married a Haskell.

Levy, 1 1 17.,.,. die. 1 184S; married; lived in Al- bany, N\ V.

Washington, bom iSoi;died 187s; married; lived in Albany, N. Y.

Anna L.. burn 1806; died 1890; married a Scovil ; lived in Albany, N. Y.

Daughter, boru ; .lied ; married a Richard; Hinsdale, Mass.

All ol the Phillips raised large families of boys and girls who are lllling high stations in these United

Stale,

All ..I the . hildren that R. ger Haskell had, r li ;ed

i'iiuu) ol the Si..;,, of the Union, Massachusetts,

Illinois, Minnesota, Kansas, Caliloinia, etc

GENEALOGY OF PLINY FISK HASKELL. • The Rev.T. N. Haskell of Denser, Col., will an- swer all iiuestions concerning my ancestors better than I can do. Filch Haskell is a Congregational minister. C. P. Haskell and wife are recently Sev- enth I'av A. 1\ enlists.

Anna Eliza Haskell was horn December 30, 1847; married Franklin Solomon Pitch May 28, 1872. Charles Pliuy, born April 15, 1851; married July 4, I872, to Marj Wright, both horn 111 Bloomfi.

George Henry, born in Geneva, Ohio, March n. iSso, married lama E. Williams Mas 9, 1878.

Vinuella Marie, born March 10, 1800; married Franklin I Hubbard August 29, 1877. All were res- idents of Geneva and Ashtabula, I

My own name is Plinj Fisk Haskell, my wife's

n. one Maria Anna Morgan; I "as 1 1 |„1\ 25, 1S23,

at Minn, Chautauqua Co., N. Y.; I was married Align t [9, 1846, at Bloomfn Id, Trumbull, Co., 1 >hio; my children were four, two male and two female; Anna Eliza, Charles Pliny, George Henry, and Viunella Marie; all temperate; all married lip Lop; I have al-

Aniia E. H. Fitch (Rev. F. S. Fitch) lues in Strat- ford, Conn. Charles Plinv, In. nest farmer, lives near Beaver City, Furnas Co., Neb. George II. is with me in the store, Geneva, Ohio. Viunella M. Hub- bard, who married F. I. Hubbard a farmer, lives ,„

FROM MRS. LEONIDAS HASKELL. Wakei [Eld, Mas,., Feb. 2, [898. Mr. Haskell: I was very much pleased to see- the 1 1 as u 1:1.1. Jouunal a few days ago that was received by my son Harry Haskell of this town, and later my son Broderick Haskell of Grand Rapids, Mich., wrote that he had received a copy of the same Journal and had subscribed for himself and for me also, that mine would be sent here. ; ■ 1 send

by this mail an old Gloucester Advertiser, in it yon will see a sketch of Aunt Hitty Has- kell, her life and death. She was an aunt of my husband and known by a great many Haskells.both in this slate and Maine.

I will send some items from time to time. My youngest brother lives in Alameda, Cal., his place of business is in San I'rancisco, I vou may know him, Walter YV. Haskell 1 in Mills Build iii";.

Mrs. Leonidas Haskell.

The old Haskell house on Concord street. West Gloucester, is being torn down. It was built in 1801 by Amos Haskell. Mrs. I.v.ha 1 1 . Hras is a daughter ol Mr. Haskell, and, although she was not bom until near eleven years after the house was I ilt, rile plainly recalls hearing her mother tell ..I bow when the finish was being put on the house shi I, can pot on one ol tile girders foi a few and when she looked lor it she found a stupid car- penter had finished it in. She many times pointed ..in the exac t pla< <■ where her favorite bean pot was cemented, as she bemoaned the loss. So sv.rk of destruction was begun a few davs ago Mrs. I:, as told the men where to look for the til past centurv. And. lo! when the plate was reached, there was the hcan pot, apparently reads : lor another too year-.

The last pages of each issue of the JOURNAL you will observe are numbered separ- ately. They are designed to be detatched and finally hound in a volume by themsel- ves. The first sixteen pages will be num- bered consecutively and can be bound in the same style to accompany the genei of the family. At the conclusion of the year, or ol the volume, the Journal will make arrangements with its subscribers for the binding, not only of the filesol the paper but of the History as well.

THE MASK

A SAMPLE LETTER. Walter N. Haskell

Sterling, 111., and a warm si

JOURNAL.

ami has assisted ns considerably

Hie editor is not nnlv pleased but is reall onished to Unci out liow many cl Hie nam

MR. Bt'RNETTU G. 11 'SKTil

Dear Sir: I would like to thank you the Ha.sk em. Journal which was received Miss Arline Haskell of the Hotel Bristol,

yesterday. The Journal was very in New V

teresting to me as one of the 5.000, and will l,u' ■'"' be also to my brother, Frederick A. Haskell

who resides at No. 5 Arlington Place, B k

lyn. N. Y., and has given considerable time served with honor and glory in the war.. in looking up the- authentic records of our the Rebellion.

family. We descended from William lias-

kellol Gloucester, Mass, in the following The San Antonia dailv /i.vftress of Januan

order: Win. Haskell settled in Beverly, 1632; 6th, and the New Oilcans Tim, - /' < ■: 0 settled in Gloucester 1643; married Mary December 26th last, contain articles of tw< Tibbets November 6, 1643, died in Glnucesti r and three columns in each issue commending August i", 1693; their children, Joseph and n,e artistic work abroad of Mr. and Mrs Has William. kell-Tlioinas. Kxcerpts therefrom mav here

Wm. Haskell 2d, born in Gloucester aftei be published August 26, 1644; married Mary Walker [uly 5, i667;died June s, 1 70S; had eleven children.

Joseph Haskell, son of Wm. Haskell 2d, born in Gloucestei 1673; married Rachel HI well 1696; died 171S.

Joseph Haskell 2d, Son Of Joseph Haskell

ist, born [698; married Mary Woodward 1720; removed to Harvard, Mass., 1735; died August 7, 1791; Mary his w ifedied February 23, 174s.

Solomon Haskell, son of Joseph Haskell 2d, born in Harvard, Mass., 1 740 or 41; married Betty Davis in Harvard April 21, 1774: their children, Betty, Hannah, Alice, Anna and Jonathan (1 air father 1.

I think it will be best to obtain from Fred- erick A. Haskell the record of our immediate family. My brother is city agent for the freight department of the New York Central cc Hudson River R. R., and were it not for his modesty and dislike to prominence lie • would be equal to filling a high position, for while be is now yielding to age, lie has been and still is a very handsome, dignified man. and noble and generous in character, one of whom we all as a rare may be proud as rep- resenting nobility of soul, and a t>rpe physic- ally of perfect manhood. Our grandfather, Solomon Haskell,. served in the Revolutionary war: was at Ticonderoga, Lexington, Cam- only person of the Haskell blood who has

idge and Boston. developed artistic capacities sufficient to

1 am very much interested in the coat of- justify resilience and work in Paris. Samuel arms and hope to sLC it in a coming Journal Stephen Haskell is al the school des Beaux illustrated with color, etc.* :: I am also Arts, in that center of civilization. Fie is the very anxious to see the picture of Rowlstone sou of Samuel C. and Mary F. Haskell of St- Castle, and to know the authority tor claim- Paul. Minn.

ing it as the ancient seat of the Haskell fain-

ilv. From the letters received since the first

Louise Haskell Sylvester, issue it is certain that a large number of our

966 Beacon street, Newton Center, Mass. people belong to the very best classes in the

February 7, 1898. Southern States. Jennie Haskell Rose of

Baltimore contributes, with authorities from

Among the many H.isl ysisj. T. history, some other modifications of our name

Haskell of Wellington, Oliio, who has been derived from her investigations in the Con- Justice and twice a member of the Ohio Gen- gressional Library, such as Askel, Fil/.jas- eral Assembly. kalle. etc.

	There :i	re a number	of	Tr	ll hi'	,-cks c	on-
ne	eled will	, the Haske	11 fa	mils	• and	the cdi	to r
w<	mid like	to hear fron	1 Hi	em :	ill.	M.s. 11	as-
ke	11 Ten l<	ivck Robin-	-on,	wi	fe 0	f LV.pt	nil
Ri	ibinson	of the Th	ird	An	Jller	v, II ni	ted
St	ales An	n\ , is one.	Mi	irthi	1 II	askel! '1	.'en
1	</ck is an Music an	other.			imbii	acd. bu
	d law are r	a red	t it
is	a proof i	>f the vers?	tilit	V 1	f th	e Has!	cell
fa	miiv that	William S.	11.	skell, th<	: able ;	ind
SI!	ccessfnl	New Vork	atti	.lP.e	y, g	raduate	of
Y la	ale. is tl rg< •• - hn	relies or the	ihi,	d ci	ty of	me ol the wo	the rid.
ai	id he iss	till a young	ma	n.
	Ruth Co	nmbs 1 1 aski	11, a dai	ight<	•1 of C	ap-
ta	in Willia	m Haskell,	is marr	led 1	0 Sam	uel
N	. Brow n,	president 0	f th	e I-"	airb;	inks Sc	■ale
company 1	11 Boston.	Bo	th ::	re e	iithusia	stic
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M	is. Hask<	Ml Brown	was	a 1	.apt:	iin in	the
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ord abbot ( (sketel, and undcrhis predecessor, ibbot Godrie, pastor of the monastery

"In s7r, tins was Followed by a more foi idable attack by the main body of the Dai in lingland. The three Kings, Guthrii Oskytki. and Amund who liad wintered Cambridge, took ship, and sailing westwa seized the town of Wareham in Dorsetshi Alfred (.the Great) made a treaty with tin paying at the same time according to o account, a sum of money and they vowed the most solemn manner thai they wen leave his kingdom. This promise was at 01 broken, for some of their horsemen m.i tluir way into Devonshire, and surprised t strongholdof Fixeter."

Prom the

Of the Ei li I'd pie and of the Kuglish

lite French language ami ViK-ratiire, and Vice- President l.I the e 1K-. ..i the i'ii\ ol New York. London, Keegaii, I'aul, Trench ,v Co, I 1' Row. isss.

CHAPTKR [V.

THE DANES IN KXCLANT). For more than a century and a half nearly the whole of South Britian had borne the name of lingland, and the nation was deeply suffering from the effectsof a long succession of miserable contests, sometimes betw een one state and another, sometimes between ad verse fractions in the same state, having in either ease the rancorous character of civil strife, when suddenly they were attacked by a foreign foe whose civilization was as fai below their own as theirs had been from cen- turies previously, below that of the con- quered Britons; and whose successful inva- sions not only checked their progress as a nation, but nearly replunged them into their original barbarism. These piratical hordes, called Danes or Norsemen by the Iinglish, and Normans by the French, were not merely natives of Denmark, properly so-called, but belonged also to Norway, Sweden, and other count lies spread around the Baltic si a Tin weie off-shoots of the great Scandinavian bianch of Teutons who, under different names, conquered and recomposed the states ot l'urope on the downfall of the Roman empire. Such of the Scandinavian tribes as did not move to the south to estab- lish themselves permanently in fertile pro- vinces, but remained on the barren soil and bleak regions of the north, devoted them-

piracy as a profitable and I i profession. The Saxons themselves had done tins in the fourth and fifth centuries, and now in the ninth century they were be- coming the victims of their old system, ear- ned into practicelby their kindred, the Danes.

Swedes, Norwegians, and others, All these people were of the same rare as the Saxons, being an aftei torrent of the same fountain- head; and though time, and a change of country, religion, and general mode ol life on the part of the Iinglish, had made some dif- ference between them, the common resem- blance in physical appearance, and even of

lis was still strong. i ions ol t he Northmen,

The piratical : though similar to those of the various Saxon tubes of former limes, partook ill the ninth century rather of the nature of our privateer- in« companies in time of war, and still more closely resembled the as ociations of the Cor- sairs of the Barbary Coast, who. up to the earl) part of this century, crossing tin M d terranean a- the Danes and Norwegians did the German ocean and the British channel, for many ages plundered every Christian ship and country they could approach. The Scandinavian governments at home, such as they were, licensed the depredations and shared the spoils, having a regularly fixed portion alloted them after every successful expedition, t hi cei tain occasions, w hen their

governments themselves took active part, and were known to make very extensive leagues. As the Saxons of old, so the Danes, the Nor- wegians, and all the Scandinavians were familiar with the sea and its dangers, and, the art of war was cultivated among them far more extensively than by any other na- tion at that time. The astonishing success of these people in Kngland and France, and latei in Italy and Sicily, not only proves their physical vigor, their valoi and preseverance, but also their military skill and a remarkable degree of intellect, which contrasted strangely with their savage instinct and their innate brutality. Their religion and their literature, some of which date back as far as the eighth century, were subservient to their ruling passions for war and plunder; or, more pro- perl) speaking, they were both east in the mould of these passions, and stamped with the impress of the national character. The blood of their enemies in war. and a rude hospitality, with a barbarous excess m drink- ing, were held to be the incense most ac- ceptable to their god, Woden, who himself had been, perhaps, nothing more than a mighty slayer and drinker. War and least- ings were the constant themes of their skalds and bards; and what they called their history recorded little else than piracy and shed. Torture and carnage, greed of danger, fur) of destruction, the obstinate and fren- zied bravery of an overstrung temperament, and the unchaining of butcher) instinct, meet us at every page ill the old Sagas, liven their ideal woman is a cold, heartless. blood-thirsty wretch. Thus the daughter of ;, Danish earl, seeing ligil taking his seat

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near her, repels him with scorn, reproaching him with "seldom having provided the wolves with hot meat, with never having seen tor a whole autumn, a raven croaking over the carnage." lint Egil seized her and pacified her by singing, "I have marched with my bloody sword, ami the raven has fol- lowed me. Furiously we fought, the fire passi d over the dwellings of men; we slept in the blood of those who kept the gates." Erom such table talk, and such maid's fancies, one may judge of the rest.

Like their brothers, the Saxons, the Danes were not at one time very bigoted or very intolerant to other modes of faith; hut when they came to England they were embittered by recent persecutions. The remorseless cruelties practiced by Charlemagne from the year 772 to 803 upon the pagan Saxons, set- tled on the Rhine and in Westphalia, to whom he left no other alternative hut death or a Christian baptism, and whom he massa- cred by thousands, even after they had laid down their arms, were the cause of their fear- ful reaction and the confirmed idolatry of that people. Those that could escape had tied to Jutland, Seeland, h'remen, and the islets of the Cattcgat, where the people, still unconverted, gave a friendly reception to brethren suffering in the cause of Woden. All these joined largely in the expeditions against England, and they treated as rene- gades the English who had forsaken the faith of their common ancestors, to embrace that of their deadly enemies. A sort of religious and patriotic fanaticism was thus combined in the Scandinavians with the fiery impulsive- ness oi their character, and an insatiable thirst for blood of priests and monks; they especially delighted at pillaging the churches, anil stabled their horses ;- u the chapels of the palaces. When they had devastated and burned some district of the Christian terri- tory; "We have sung them the mass of the lances," said they mockingly; "it commenced in the morning, and lasted until night."

In three days, with an east wind, the fleet of Denmark and Norway, consisting of two- sailed vessels, could reach the south of I'.rit- ian. The soldiers of each fleet obeyed in general one chief, whose vessel was distin- guished from the rest by some particular ornament. Tin- samechief commanded when the pirates, having landed, marched in troops on foot or on such horses as they could cap- ture. His title was that of king; but he was king only on the seas and on the battle field; for in the hour of the banquet the whole troop sat in a circle, ami the horns, tilled with beer, passed from hand to hand without any distinction of first man or last. The sea-king was everywhere faithfully followed and zeal- ously obeyed, because he was always re- nowned as the bravest of the brave, as "one who had never slept under a smoke-dried roof, who had never emptied a cup seated in

the chimney-corner." He could guide his vessel as the good horseman his steed, and to the prestige ol carnage and skill were added, for him, the influence created by superstition, for he knew the mystic characters which, en- graven upon swords, secured the victory, and those which, inscribed on the poop and on the oars, preserved vessels from shipwreck. Under such a chief the men bore lightly their voluntary submission and the weight of their mailed armor and they laughed at tlu wind and waves that failed to do them harm. "The strength of the tempest," they sang, "arms the arm of the rower: the storm is our servant; it throws us where we want to go." Thus the name oi' waking was only a military title, and had nothing in common with that of "Koenig" meaning "chief," and borne by the numerous petty kings that ruled in the various Scandinavian Kingdoms.

In speaking of king and kingdoms we use words of swelling sound and magnificent import. Splendor, extensive dominion pomp and power are the majestic images which arise in our minds when we hear of thrones. But we must dismiss from our thoughts the fascinating appendages of modern royalty, and rather think of our Indian chiefs, when we contemplate these petty sovereigns of the North. Some of their kingdoms may have equaled an American county in extent, but many would have been rivaled by our towns. Having neither cities nor fortified posts, and only surrounded by a small band of follow- ers, they often became the prey of each other; some times even the victim to some coup de main of other pirates who assailed them. This early state of tilings continued until the latter part of the ninth century, when Eric in Sweden, Gormo in Denmark, and Harald Harfager in Norway, subdued all these petty kings in their respective coun tries and united them into three separate monarchies.

The second class of these high-tit ed indi- viduals were sovereigns who neither posses- sed country nor ruled over regular subjei ts, and yet tilled the regions adjacent with mis- ery and terror. They were a race of beings whom all Europe beheld with horror. With- out a square yard of territorial property, without any towns or visible people, with no wealth but their ships, no force but their crews, and no hope but from their swords, the sea-kings of the North swarmed on the boisterous ocean and plundered in every district they could approach, sometimes amassing so much booty and enlisting so many followers to assault even

whole provinces for permanent conquest. They were generally the younger sons of the kings in question, the elder remaining at . nherit the government. The former were left to seek their fortune on the ocean and to wield their scepters amid the turbu- lent waters. The consent of the northern

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people entitled all men of royal descent who assumed piracy as a profession to enjoy the name of k i 1 1 •_; s , though they possessed no property ashore. Hence the sea-kings were the kinsmen of the land-sovereigns, and while the eldest son succeeded to his father, the rest of the family hastened like petty Nep- tiines to establish their kingdom un the waxes; and if any nt the former were ex- pelled from their inheritance by others, then they also sought a continuance of their dig- nity upon the ocean. Their rank, and espec- ially their successes, always secured to them abundant crews, and the mischief they per- pertrated was immense.

Hut while these sea-kings operated under a high-sounding title, there was another set of northern pirates on the ocean, far more ferocious, and much less disciplined, though to the victims it made very little difference. Not only the children of kings, but every man that could afford it equipped ships, and roamed the seas to acquire property by force. At the age of ten or twelve their sons were trained under military tutors in all that could make them distinguished pirates. Piracy among them was not only considered the most honorable occupation, hut the best field for the harvestof wealth; nor was it confined to the emulation of the illustrious who pur- sued it; no one was respected who did not engage in it, and did not return from sea with ships laden with booty. It was there- fore well said of the Northmen, by one of their contemporaries, that they sought their food by their sails and inhabited the seas. The name by which this class of pirates was known was Vikinge, which originally meant "kings of the bays" for it was in the bays that they ambushed to dait upon t'le passing voyager. The recesses of the shores afforded them a station of safety from the perils of the ocean, and of advantage in their pursuit. Our bolder navigation, which selects in pre- ference the open sea, was then unusual. In those days merchant vessels coasted where ever t was possible and therefore generally came in sight of those bays, which often were full of this class of pirates, ready to dait upon their prey.

The ferocity and useless cruelty of this race of beings almost transcends belief. The piracy of the Vikings was an exhibition of every species of barbarity. Some of them cultivated paroxysms of brutal insanity. These were the Bersekir, whom many authors describe. When a conflict was impending, or a great undertaking was about to be commenced, they abandoned all nationality Upon system; they studied to resemble wolves or mad dogs, bit their shields, howled like wild beasts, stirred themselves up to the utmost frenzy, and then rushed to every crime and horror which the most frantic en- thusiasm could perpetrate. Their fury was

an artifice of battle like the war whoops of the Indians, and in this, las in their barbar- ous daring and cruelty, they much resembled the latter; lor the rest, their leading charac- teristics were n uch the same as those of the Saxons three centuries previous.

It was in the latter part of the eighth cen- tury that these people commenced to plague the English coasts. This they kept up at in- tervals lor nearly a century, until at last, see- ing the country was not in a condition to re- sist them, they fitted out large expeditions which, in course of time, over-ran almost the entile island, carrying with them death and destruction, and leaving nothing but ruin and misery in their trail. Priest, monk, nun, youth, old age, nothing was sacred to them. What they looked for was gold and silver, and they sought il especially in the monas- teries and churches. Xorthumbria became a waste. What could not be removed was set on lire, and, with but rare exceptions, the whole Anglian literature perished in the flames. All that could, fled before the fury of the Danes, and those who remained re- verted almost all to their old heathen customs and practices. Civilization went back three centuries; men forgot every art of peace, and what little learning and culture there was among the people became extinguished, even in those parts which hitherto had been the most enlightened.

This is the way it began. One day in 787, a body of men of unknown race entered, in three vessels, a part on the eastern coast where now is Portland. They probably came in the guise of traders, as they were wont on such occasions. In order to learn whence they came, and what they wanted, the Saxon magistrate of the place proceeded to the shore where they had landed. The strangers let them quietly approach; then surrounding him and his escort, they fell sud- denly upon them, and, after plundering the town, returned with their booty to their ships, and immediately set sail. Six years after a similar robbery took [dace on the Northum- brian coast, but on a much larger scale Then the pirates were not further heard of for many years, until in S32 and the year follow- ing, when they were seen hovering along the southern and eastern coasts in large num- bers, making descents here and there, and doing considerable mischief. It was. how- ever, only in the year 835 that the first great army of Danish corsairs directed their course toward England, and landed 011 the coast of Cornwall. The ancient inhabitants of that country, reduced by the English to the hard condition of tributaries, joined the enemies of their conquerors, either in the hope of re- gaining some small portion of their liberty,. or simply to gratify the pas-ion of national revenge. The northern invaders were re- pulsed, and the Britons of Cornwall remained

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wards, other fleets brought the Danes lo the eastern coast in such numbers that no force could prevent them from penel rating into t he heart ol England. They ascended the great rivers until they found a commodious station, then they quitted their barks, and moored them <>r drew thcin aground; then, scattering themselves over the neighboring country, they carried off all the beasts of burden, and, as the chronicles of that day express it, from mariners they became horsemen. The) at first confined themselves to plundering and retired immediately, leaving only some mili- tary posts and small iu trenched camps on the coast to cover their speedy return; but soon, changing their policy, they lixcd their resi- dence in the country, and became masters of the soil and of the inhabitants, driving the English population of the northeast toward the south western part of the island, as the Saxons had formerly driven the British pop- ulation from the British channel to the oppo- site sea. A. I). 83S to 865.

In the year 866, the most numerous fleet that had ever sailed from Denmark on a distant expedition left for England, under tl.e command of eight kings and twenty jarls, who landed their troops on the southern pai t of the coast appertaining to East Anglia. Unable to repel so formidable an armament the people of that country received the Danes in a pacific manner. The latter pro- fited thereby in acquiring supplies of provi- sions, collecting horses, and awaited rein- forcements from beyond the sea; afterward, when they felt assured of success, they marched upon York, the capital of North- umbria, totally defeating the Saxons, and devastating with lire and sword the country they traversed C867). Having made them- selves masters of a district north of the Humher, and being assured by messengers of the submission of the rest of the North- umbrians they resolved on maintaining their conquest. They garrisoned York and the principal towns, apportioned estates to their companions, without any regard to the rights of the native population, and offered an asylum to men o( all r.uiks who should ar- rive from the Scandinavian countries to join the new colony. Thus Northumberland ceased to be a Saxon kingdom; it became the

rallying point of the Danes, who contem- plated the conquest of the southern portion of England. Aftei three years spent in their preperations the invading army set out. Un- der the conduct of their eight kings, they de- scended the 1 lumber as tar as I.indescy, where, having disembarked, they marched from north to south, plundered cities, massa ere.1 the inhabitants, and, with their national fanaticism, they destroyed by lire the Chris- tian churches and monasteries, and all books and manuscripts they found in them. East

Anglia, being in turn completely subjected, became, like Northumbria.a Danish kingdom, and a point 01 destination lor all emigrant ad- venturers from the north. The Saxon king was repl ced a king, and the Saxon

population, reduced to a state of demi-servi- tude, lost all property iu their territory, and thenceforth tilled the land for the Danish conquerors. The country was now overrun by the latter, and of the eight kingdoms Inst founded by the Saxons and the Angles there ■ ■! but one, that ..I Wessex, which ex- tended from the mouth of the Thames to the British channel.

In the year S71 Ethelred, king of Wessex, died of wounds received in a combat fought with the Danes who had passed the Thames, and invaded his territory. lie Iefl several children; but the choice of the nation fell on his brother Alfred, a young prince twenty- two years old, wh<sc courage ami military skill inspired the Saxons with the greatest hopes. Twice alread) In- had succeeded, either by arms or negotiation, in-relieving his kingdom from the presence of the Dan repulsed several attempts to invade his south- ern provinces by sea, and foi seven years maintained the boundary linesof the Thames. It is probablethat nootherarmy oi the Danes would ever have overpassed thai boundary, had the kin- of Wessex and. his people been united; but there existed between them germs of discord of a peculiar nature.

Kin- . Mired was more learned, than any of his subjects. While yet young he had visited the southern countries of Europe, and closely observed their manners, customs, and institu- tions; he w as conversant with theii languages, and with most of the writings of antiquity. This superiority of knowledge 1 reated 111 t he- Saxon king a certain degree of contempt lor lie- nation he governed. He had small re- spect foi the information or intelligence of the great national council, which were called "The Assembly of Wise Men." Full of the ideas of absolute power which he had so often read of iu Roman writers. lie was bent on political reforms, and framed many plans better in themselves, perhaps, than the an- cient Anglo Saxon practices the) were in- tended to replace, but wanting in that essen- tial requisite, the sanction of the people, w ho neither understood nordesired these changes. Tradition has vaguely preserved some severe features ol . Mind's government; after his death men used to speak of the ex- cessive rigor he applied to the punishment of prevaricators and dishonest judges. A1-. though this severity ha ject the

good of the nation, it was far from agreeable to a people who, at that time, valued freedom ol existence more than regularity in the ad- ministration of public affairs.

Thus when, seven years alter his election. this learned king, unconsciously odious, hav-

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ing to repel a formidable invasion of Danes, summoned his people to defend the land, he was terrified at finding his subjects but little disposed to obey him, and even careless about Hie common danger. In vain did Alfred send through the towns and hamlets his mes- sengers of war: few men came, ami the king was left almost alone with a small number of faithful followers and friends whom he en- chanted with his learning. Favored by this indifference of the nation for t heir chief, the enemy made a rapid progress. Alfred then. feeling that he was deserted by his people, deserted them in his turn, and the Danish' army entered the kingdom nearly unopposed, many of the inhabitants embarked on the western coast to seek refuge either in Caul or on the island of Erin, which the Saxons called Ireland; the rest submitted to pay trib- ute and to labor for the Danes. But it was not long before they found the evils of the conquest a thousand times worse than the severity of Alfred's reign, which alone could have saved them. Thus they regretted their former condition, and even the despotism of a king who ruled them with an iron hand, but who was horn among themselves

Alfred, too, reflected on his misfortunes and meditated on the means of saving his people, if it were possible, and of regaining their favor. Having collected a few friends about him, he intrenched himself on a small island near the confluenceof the rivers Thone and 1'arret. There he led the hard and rug- ged life reserved, in every conquered country, lor such of the vanquished as are too proud for slavery — that of a freebooter in the woods, morasses, and mountain defiles. Such as were tired of the foreign yoke, or had been guilty of high treason, in defending their family and property against the con- querors, came and put themselves under the command of the unknown chief, who dis- dained to share the general servitude. After six mouths of a warfare of strata-cms, sur- prises, and of night combats, the partisan leader resolved to declare himself, to call on the people of the whole western country, and to make an open attack, under the Anglo- Saxon standard, on the principal camp of the Danes. Before giving the decided signal, Alfred wished to observe in person the posi- tion of the foreigners. He entered their camp in the dress of a harper, and diverted the Danish army with his Saxon songs, the language of which differed but little from their own. He went from tent to tent, and on his return, changing his character and occupation, he sent messengers through, all the surrounding country, and assigned as a place of meeting for all Saxons who would arm and light, a spot a lew miles distant from the enemy's camp. During cessive days armed men arrived i i every quarter, one by one, or in small I at the

place appointed. Some rumors of this agita- tion reached the camp of the Danes, but as there was not a single traitor among the Sax- ons, their information was uncertain. It was not long, however, before they saw the ban- ner of Wesscx bearing down on them. Al- fred attacked their redoubts at their weakest sides, drove out all the Danes, and as the Saxon Chronicle expresses it, "remained master of the field ol carnage."

Once dispersed the Danes did not again rally, and Cuthrum, their king, did what those of his nation often did when in pel il — he promised that, if the victors would relin- quish their pursuit of him, he and his men would be baptised, and would retire to their territory of blast Anglia to dwell there in peace. The Saxon king, who was not strong enough to carry on the war to the utmost, ac- cepted these proposals lor peace (879).

Cuthrum and the other pagan captains swore

first on a bracelet consecrated t'> their gods and then on the cross, that they would in all good faith receive baptism. King Alfred officiated as spiritual father to the Danish chief, who, putting the neophytical white- robe over his armor, departed with the wreck of his army for the land whence he hail come, ami where he engaged for the fu- ture to remain. The limits of the two popu- lations were fixed by a definite treaty sworn to, as the preamble set forth, by Alfred, King; Guthrum, King; all the Anglo-Saxon wise men, and all the Danish people. These limits were, on the south, the course of tin- Thames as far as the Lea, which discharges its waters into the main stream not far from London; on the northeast, the Onse and the great high road constructed by the Britons and. rebuilt by the Romans, which the Sax- ons called Weathlingastreet, "the road of the sons Waethla." All those portions of ling- land which were not occupied by the Danes thenceforth formed one single state, carrying out practically the original plan of Egbert; and thus disappeared forever the ancient di- vision of the English people into various peoples, corresponding in number to Un- hands of armed emigrants which had incess- antly came from the islands and coasts of Continental Europe, and dispossessed the Britons.

And now in turn the same bad faith was shown them by the Danes, who, at the first appearance as a licet of pirates on the coast, broke their oath without hesitation, and saluted the newcomers as brothers, with whom they entered at once upon new expe- ditions against the Southern English, and kept doing so ever after on every chance or pretext, Such were the people who.forwell nigh two centuries, made Kngland the object of their incessant depredations, hovering Inst on the coast- as mere pirates, making descents

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now at one point, then at another, through- out the whole circuit, and finally establishing themselves permanently in the heart of the kingdom, and sweeping it in all directions with lire and sword, until at last they even succeeded in placing their own king upon the Knglish throne. Such a state of things was necessarily fatal to the progress of civili- sation and with it too the language; for though the Danes of the tenth century were no longer the low pirates of a century pre- vious, and though even during the twenty years of the reign of Canute the country en- joyed in every way more of the advantages of good government than it bad done in any previous period of the same length, yet this very state of peace and relative prosperity was again prejudicial to the vernacular Kng- lish by favoring a further admixture of words and phrases from the dialect of the Swedes, Danes, N irwegians, and other Scandinavian tribes then settled permanently and in great numbers on the island.

As the life of Ragmar Lodbrog had dis- turbed the peace of many regions of Kurope.

his deatli became the source of peculiar evil to Ktlgland. When his sons heard of his death, in the prison in Northumbria, they de- termined on revenge.

Their transient hostilities as sea-kings were laid aside for the gratification of this passion; and as their father's fame was the conversa- tion and pride of the north, they found that wherever they spread news of his fate, and their own resolution to avenge it, their feel- ings were applauded, and auxiliaries pro cured to join them, from every part. Hands of warriors confederated from every region for this vindictive object. Jutes, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes. Rusians, and others; all the fury and all the valor of the north as- sembled for the expedition, while none of the Anglo Saxon kings suspected the pre- parations.

Right kings and twenty earls, the children, relatives, and associates of Ragnar were its leaders. The kings were liaiscg. Halfdene, liignar, I'bba, C.uthrams. Oskitel, Aiiiund ami Howls. (Al. liev. 93.) Simeon adds to the kings, Sidea, with a jail of that name. 1 I'rena and Herald, p 14.)

'Their armament assembled without molest- ation, and when it had become numerous enough to promise success to this adventure, Halfdene, Inguar, and Hubba, three of Rag- nar's sons, assumed the command, sailed out of the Baltic, and conducted it safely to the Knglish coasts.

By some error in the pilotage, or accident of weather, oi actual policy, it passed North- umbria, and anchored oil the shores of Kast Anglia.

Ethelred was scarcely seated on his brother's throne, before the great confederacy began

to arrive. It found the country in a state auspicious to an invasion.

Four distinct governments divided its nat- ural force, w hose narrow policy saw nothing but triumph and safety in the destruction of each other. Ouv of these, the peculiar ob- ject of the hostility of the north, was plunged in a civil warfare.

of the Anglo-Saxon governments, the kingdom of Northumbria ha 1 been always the most perturbed.

Usurper murdering usurper, is the prevad- ing accident. A record of ghastly monarchs pass swiftly along the page of historv as «c gaze; and scarcely was the sword ol the as- sassin sheathed before it was drawn against its master, and he was carried to the sepul- chre which he had just closed upon another.

In this manner, during the last century and a half, no fewer than seventeen chiefs hurled each other from this joyless throne, and the deaths of the greatest numbei were accompanied by hetacombs of their friends.

When the northern fleet suddenly ap- peared off Kast Anglia, such sanguinary events were still disturbing Northumbria. Osbert had been four years expelled by 1.11a from the throne which he had usurped from another, and at this juncture was formidable enough to dare his rival again to the ambiti- ous field.

The Danish chieftains who first landed, did iK. l at once rush to their destined prey. Whether accident or policy had occasioned them to disembark in Kast Anglia, they made it a beneficial event, Awing the country by a force which the hinds had never rafted from Denmark before, they quietly passed the winter in theircamp, collecting provisions and inviting their friends. They demanded a supply of horses from the king, who com- plied to their recpuest, and mounted the great- est part of their army, lie attempted iro enmity; he suffered them to enjoy their win- try feasts unmolested; no alliance with the other Saxon kingdoms was made during tire interval: each state looked on with hope, th it the collected temptest was to burst upon an- other; and as the menaced, government was a rival, nothing but advantage was foreseen from its destruction.

The northern kings must have content plated this behavior with all the satisfaction and contempt of meditative mischief and conscious superiority. The Northumbrian Usurpers at last sheathed, though tardily, the swords of contending ambition; and. on the advice <if their nobles, united For their mu- tual defence and the general safety.

The invaders, though in many lands, like the Grecian host before Troy, yet submitted to the predominance of [ngwar and I'bba, two of the sons of Ragnar. Of these two,

( To Be Continued.)

HASKKTJ, I0URNA1

Many valuable suggestions have been re- edly send a copy of it to tin

ceived from !•:.!!. Haskell of the Boston future publication. Herald, and from George B. Haskell ol the He makes a suggestion wli

same city. George B. Haskell informs us extremely pertinent, that tin [on

that the late William O. Haskell who pub hereafter have a department of birt

lished the genealogical tree, said that the first riages and deaths as they hereaftt

William came over in the ship Arabella or confined to the family name 01 blood

Arbclla, but lie says Mint he has worked makes some other suggestions t

hours on lists of early immigrants, early voy- terest which will be dealt with lat

ages, etc.. with such facilities as the Boston Board of Direction of the Journal 1

libraries afford, without establishing the cided that with the March issue the;

point to his satisfaction. He hopes that the tablish a department of births, marri

publication of the Journal may lead to the deaths, and each of cur sul

recovery of tin MSS., ol family history com- take due notice thereof. piled by the late Charles Haskell as men- tioned by William Garrison Haskell in our Helen M. Haskell-Thomas, ment

last issue. Mr. George B. Haskell has read our last issue, is now in San I'ranci

the will of the first William and will undoubt- her husband.

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The Haskhli. Journal has made special arrangements with one of the best steel die cutters and engravers in the United States, and as well with a designer, and is prepared to furnish members of the Haskell family anything in that line tlmt may he desired. Special prices are made as follows:

For a steel die of the crest for stationary; . "on a mount an apple tree fructed, with a crest motto fructus' and the arrow," eight dollars.

For a plain engraving of the coat of arms and crest, the arms either vair argent et sable, or charged with the Osbern bend and fesse, but without supporters, but with the motto, eight dollars.

Same as above but without supporters, two leopards rampant regardant, and with the mantlings, ten dollars. "\

A large size coat of arms complete, suitable for framing, either with or without the Os- bern charge and with both mottoes, done in gold silver and colors, twenty-five dollars, all hand work.

As each of these mottoes are questions of hand work, orders cannot be filled until at least twenty days after receipt of the money therefor, which invariably must be paid in advance.

Serd all orders to the Journal office.

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409 CALIFORNIA ST.

SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.

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. . «ml 704 Mission Street, San FrftBclsco, Cat.

Being Antiqnarinn book dealers we arc prepared to take orders, and to main- searches for any book that may be required; We can furnish b<x>ks on genealogy and Haskell History, and any and every book mentioned In the Haskell Journal.

Seventy-five thousand volnmes in stock.

All books, old and new, bongnt; sold and exchanged.

A full line of Law, Medical and Text Hooks.

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Architect and Superintendent,

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Established at Lawrence 1857. Removed tu Tojieku ns Haskell St Wood In 1879. Thirty-nine years of continuous and successful practice. The oldest office in the State.

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Hours: 12 to 3. daily. (Refers to Mr. Burnette G. Haskell.)

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And the Very Best.

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It is then crushed to make it easily prepared for the table, and this crushing process makes it soft and tender and easy to cook.

It is especially recommended and adapted to persons of weak digestion, to invalids and to ) small children, containing as it does, all of the

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THE

HASKELL JOURNAL

A Monthly Magazine

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SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., MARCH, r8tf.

T/\BLE OF* CONTENTS Biography of E. B. Haskell, Letters from E. B. Haskell, Aunt Hitty Haskell, -

Wendell Phillips' Address, William Haskell's Genealogy. TJ. G. H. A Personal Narrative. E. W. H. The New Bedford People. L. B. H. A Genealogical Suggestion. F. W. H. - Editorials, -----. A Sketch. J. P. C, Joseph T. Haskell, - An Earthly Paradise, -

Death Notices, -

Continuation of Genealogy, - - j

Revolutionary Officers, -

No. 3.

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EDWIN BRADBURY HASKELL.

Edwin Bradbury ILi

One of the most pleasingpersonalitiesin the Haskell family, one of the r.iost successful of all our people, probably the richest of our race, not alone in money but in intellect, is Edwin Bradbury Haskell, the editor and owner ol the Boston Herald and connected financially ami literarily with half a dozen other leading journals of the United States.

It was 1	is s	m, as meiiti(	ned in	tl	e Fe	bruan
number	wl	0111 the	west	Jin mi	li<	nair	„• failei
to eat al	l Ve-
Mr. J.	nn	Swinton, for	years	th	E eh	ief eel
itor of the New York Si	// und	■i	Mr.	Dana's
direction, h	is more	than	once	Si	id tl	at Mr
Haskell	s graceful i	ictio	i and	K	enial	style.
as exen	iph