Individual Notes

Note for: William II Jr Haskell, ABT 1577 - BEF 11 MAY 1630 Index

Burial:
     Date:   11 MAY 1630
     Place:   St. Stephen's churchyard, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England

Individual Note:
     From notes compiled by David A. Haskell on Rootsweb.comFrom notes compiled by David A. Haskell on Rootsweb.com
Little is known of William Haskell's life except that tax records suggest he was a blacksmith by trade and was a churchwarden, the principal lay officer of the parish, of the Charlton Musgrove Parish in 1627/28. According to church records, he was buried on 11 May 1630 in the church cemetery (that is now the front yard) of St. Stephen's Church in Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, England. The original grave may have been marked by a stone laid flat, but no evidence of the marker or burial site remains.

There is no certain record of William's parents and siblings other than he had a brother, Mark, who was about ten years older. Mark remained in England, married a woman whose first name was Melior, and moved from Charlton Musgrove to Penselwood, the next parish east, in 1635. Mark's niece, Cecille, who also remained in England, stayed with them in Penselwood until she married 30 July 1637. Mark was born between 1565 and 1568. Ref: (1) "Chronicles of the Haskell Family" by Ira J. Haskell, Ellis Printing Co., Lynn, MA, 1943; and (2) "Chronicles of the Haskell Family: The English Background and First Generation" by Mrs. Marion S. Anderson, published as a preliminary extract of a larger work in preparation in "Haskell Journal: The Journal of the Haskell Family Association", v8, #4, 1992.
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William Haskell was from a branch of the Haskell family that lived in the northernmost part of Dorsetshire -- in Motcombe, a sub-parish of Gillingham, which had a nearby protected forest and a manor described during the reign of Elizabeth I as "...Her Majesty's Park and Forest of Gillingham". The Gillingham/Motcombe Haskell's were a separate branch who were blacksmiths. Both William , born about 1578, and his older brother Mark, born about 1568, worked as underkeepers of game at separate locations around Gillingham and were joint tenants in Motcombe, as shown in the manor surveys from 1600 to 1610. During this time they paid an extra property tax for "forges" indicating that they made their primary living at the family trade of blacksmithing.

After the death of Elizabeth I and the accession of James 1, Gillingham was deforested and laid down to pasture, becoming "...one of the richest expanses of grazing land in the west of England." The resulting economic changes apparently forced Mark and William to move elsewhere. About 1610 William moved to Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, some 30 miles from Motcombe. There he assumed a copyhold (or other type) of tenancy to which Elinor, his wife, may have had inheritance rights. Mark followed shortly after and in a 1618 deposition describes himself as '...of Charlton Musgrove, Somerset, yeoman age 50... ". The probability is that William was also a yeoman. In 1621 Mark and William paid taxes and tithes as joint tenants. In the mid-1620's both Mark and William served terms as overseers of the poor for the parish. On the overseer's accounts Mark's "signature mark" is shown as "M M" and William's mark "W W". Ref: "Richard Window, William Haskell and Subsequent Owners of a 1651 Grant of Land in the Walker Creek Valley of West Gloucester, Massachusetts" by Howard V. Williams, published in "Haskell Journal: The Journal of the Haskell Family Association", v9, #2, p 560, 1993.
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Haskell surname data in court and parish records that go back to the early Sixteenth Century provide the earliest evidence of Haskell residence for key Dorsetshire manors of Fontmell Magna in 1513, Motcombe in 1520, Melbury Abbas in 1523, and Cann in 1523. At the time, Haskells were living in these parishes, but nowhere else in all England, substantiating the claim that all Haskells have a single geographic heritage. From these key manors in Dorsetshire, the Haskell family spread to other villages in Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, and Hampshire, and then to other countries: USA in 1635, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand in 1850, and South Africa in 1898. Ref: "Origins of the Haskell Family: Earliest Parish Recorded Dates of Haskell Family Residence in Towns and Counties of Great Britain", compiled by N. H. Haskell and W. A. Haskell, in "Haskell Journal: Newsletter of the Haskell Family Association, v3, #3, 1986.
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William and Elinor [Foule] Haskell had seven children. NOTE: the children's birthdates given here are baptismal dates as recorded in the Parish Registers of St. Stephen's Church, Charlton Musgrove, Somerset. According to common practice at the time, children were baptised as soon as possible after birth. Some recent family trees in the FTM World Family Tree series show an eighth child, John, born 1 March 1628/29 (an apparent twin of Joan) but there is no record to support this.

Individual Notes

Note for: Eleanor Foule, 1583 - BET 1662 AND 1667 Index

Individual Note:
Notes compiled by David A. Haskell on rootsweb:
Elinor/Ellin Foule's maiden surname is variously reported as Foule, Frowde, or Cook. (Contributors to the Haskell Journal prefer to use Foule (pronounced to rhyme with "goal"). Elinor's first husband, William Haskell, Sr., died in 1630. Sometime after his death, and most likely in England, Elinor married John Stone, who had two sons from a previous marriage, John Jr., and Nathaniel.

Elinor's place and date of birth are not known. Her birth date is estimated based on the date of her marriage to William and the baptismal dates of their seven children that are recorded in the Charlton Musgrove Parish Registers. (REF: "Chronicles of the Haskell Family: The English Background and First Generation" compiled by Mrs. Marion S. Anderson and published as a preliminary extract of a larger work in preparation in "The Journal of the Haskell Family Association", v8, #4, 1992.)

William and Elinor [Foule] Haskell had seven known children (the children's "birthdates" are baptismal dates). Some recent family trees in the WFT series show an eighth child, John, born 1 March 1628/29 (an apparent twin of Joan) but there is no record to support this.

Probably in the spring of 1635 or 1636, John Stone, Elinor, and three of her Haskell children (Roger, age 21, William 16, and Joan 6) sailed from England (most likely from Bristol) and settled in the "Basse River" section (Cape Ann side, now Beverly) of Salem, Massachusetts. John Stone engaged in farming and fishing, but also operated a ferry across the Basse River between the two settlements. It is not known with any certainty whether John Stone's sons of his earlier marriage accompanied their father to New England.
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Only some of the Haskell children made the passage from England to Massachusetts with their mother and stepfather. Cecille, age 19, stayed with her uncle Mark and his wife Melior, who removed, by September 1635, to Penselwood, the next parish east of Charlton Musgrove. On 30 July 1637 Cecille married Edward Cobe of Wincanton at the Penselwood parish church. Of Dorothy, who would have been 12 years old, or of Elizabeth, who would have been 7 in 1635, no record other than their baptism has been found either in England or in The New World.

The youngest son, Mark, on 26 April 1635 was apprenticed by the Overseers of the Poor for Charlton Musgrove to John Whiting, a broadweaver of Shepton Mallet, Somerset, for a period of nine years. The overseers were probably acting "in loco parentis" rather than alleviating a poverty case. There are no disbursements to any Haskell and no record that William's widow or his children ever became a burden to the parish. By custom all orphaned or fatherless children were the responsibility of the parish. At age 14 or older a child was allowed a say in the choice of a guardian (or master in an apprenticeship). Since he was less than 14 when his mother was planning to take the family to New England with John Stone, we do not know if he or his mother was allowed any say in his future or if the overseers, backed by the parish courts, arranged the apprenticeship. The clerics of the parish courts were not likely to be Puritans, or were they likely to look kindly upon emigrants. By April 26th, the date of his apprenticeship, the family may already have embarked for the New World. Sometime between the end of Mark's apprenticeship and 30 Sept 1652, when he was fined by the Salem Court for "wearing broad-lace", he had arrived in Massachusetts and settled in the Basse River section of Salem. (Ref: the above two paragraphs taken, with slight revision, from Howard V. Williams in the "Haskell Journal: Journal of the Haskell Family Society" v9, #2, pp 558-576, 1993.)

Individual Notes

Note for: George Soule, 1602 - 22 JAN 1677/78 Index

Immigration:
     Date:   11 NOV 1620
     Place:   Passenger on Mayflower

Event:
     Type:   Misc
     Date:   29 MAR 1635
     Place:   Married

Individual Note:
     From The Great Migration Begins:From The Great Migration Begins:

     GEORGE SOULE

ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
REMOVES: Duxbury
FREEMAN: In the "1633" Plymouth list of freemen, ahead of those admitted on 1 January 1632/3 [ PCR 1:4]. On list of 7 March 1636/7 freemen [ PCR 1:52]. On the 29 May 1670 list of freemen of Duxburrow [ PCR 5:275].
EDUCATION: Signed his name as witness to the will of John Barnes of Plymouth 6 March 1667/8 [ MD 4:98, citing Scrapbook 56].
OFFICES: Deputy (for Duxburrow), 27 September 1642 (special deputy in case of war with the Indians), 7 June 1653, 7 March 1653/4, 6 June 1654 [ PCR 2:45, 3:31, 44, 49]. Committee (from Duxbury), 28 October 1645, 3 March 1645/6, 7 July 1646, 4 June 1650 (to consider the making and repealing of laws), 5 June 1651 [ PCR 2:94, 95, 104, 154, 167, 11:155]. Grand jury, 7 March 1642/3, 6 June 1643 [ PCR 2:53, 56]. Jury, 3 June 1656, 3 March 1662/3 [ PCR 3:102, 7:108]. Petit jury, 1 June 1647 [ PCR 2:117]. Lot viewer, 4 June 1645 [ PCR 2:88]. Committee to draw an order concerning the disorderly drinking of tobacco [ ], 20 October 1646 [ PCR 2:108]. Viewer of meadows, 5 May 1640 [ PCR 1:151]. Committee to set the range, 1 June 1658 [ PCR 3:138].
One of the "voluntaries," soldiers "that willingly offer themselves to go upon ... service" 7 June 1637 [ PCR 1:60].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land received one acre as a passenger on the Mayflower [ PCR 12:4]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle George Sowle, Mary Sowle and Zakariah Sowle were the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth persons in the ninth company [ PCR 12:12].
Assessed 9s. in the Plymouth tax lists of 25 March 1633 and 27 March 1634 [ PCR 1:10, 27]. He was on the list of purchasers [ PCR 2:177].
On 1 July 1633 he was granted "mow for a cow near his dwelling house" [ PCR 1:15]. On 20 March 1636/7 he was allowed the hay ground where he got hay the year before [ PCR 1:56]. On 4 December 1637 George Soule was granted a garden place on Ducksborrow side [ PCR 1:69]. On 7 May 1638 one acre of land was granted to George Soule "at the watering place" in liew of another acre which was taken from him for other use, and also two acres of stony marsh at Powder Point were granted to him [ PCR 1:83]. On 13 July 1639 George Soule sold to Robert Hicks two acres at the watering place on the south side of Plymouth [ PCR 12:45]. On 2 November 1640 he was granted "the meadow he desires" at Green's Harbor [ PCR 1:165
On 4 May 1658 George Soule was granted five acres of meadow [ PCR 3:134]. On 22 January 1658 and 17 July 1668, George Soule gave his Dartmouth propriety to his sons Nathaniel and George as a single undivided share [ PCLR 3:123, 245].
On 23 July 1668 George Soule, with "consent of my wife Mary," gave land to Francis Walker "husband to my daughter Elizabeth" [ MD 27:39-40, citing PCLR 3:126]. On 26 January 1668[/9] George Soule of Duxbury deeded to "Patience Haskall his true and natural daughter and unto John Haskall her husband" his half share of land at Namassakett [ MD 27:40, citing PCLR 3:153] On 12 March 1668[/9] George Soule of Duxbury, husbandman, deeded to "my daughter Elizabeth wife unto Francis Walkere" half his share of land at Namascutt [ MD 27: 40-41, citing PLR 10:2:327].
In his will, dated 11 August 1677 (with codicil dated 20 September 1677) and proved 5 March 1679/80, "G[e]orge Soule Senior of Duxberry ... being aged and weak of body" confirmed that he had formerly given by deeds "unto my two sons Nathaniel and G[e]orge all my lands in the township of Dartmouth ... [and] I have formerly given unto my daughters Elizabeth and Patience all my lands in the township of Middlebery"; to "my daughters Sussannah and Mary" 12d. apiece; "forasmuch as my eldest son John Soule and his family hath in my extreme old age and weakness been tender and careful of me and very helpful to me, and is likely so to be while it shall please God to continue my life here, therefore I give and bequeath unto my said son John Soule all the remainder of my housing and lands whatsoever"; to "my son John Soule all my goods and chattels whatsoever"; "my son John Soule to be my sole executor." In a codicil dated 20 September 1677, "G[e]orge Soule" indicated that if "my son John Soule" were to disturb "my daughter Patience or her heirs" in the peacable possession of lands he had given her in Middleborough, then "my gift to my son John Soule shall be void" and "my daughter Patience shall have all my lands at Duxburrey and she shall be my sole executrix ... and enter into my housing lands and meadows at Duxburrow" [ MD 2:81-83, citing PCPR 4:1:50].
The inventory of the estate of George Soule of Duxbury, taken 22 January 1679[/80], totalled Ł40 19s., including Ł25 in real estate: "dwelling house, orchard, barn and upland," Ł20; and "meadow land," Ł5; John Soule appended a long list of charges against the estate, including an item "for diet and tendance since my mother died which was three year the last December" [ MD 2:83-84, citing PCPR 4:1:51].
BIRTH: By about 1602 based on date of marriage.
DEATH: Between 20 September 1677 (codicil to will) and 22 January 1679[/80] (date of inventory), and probably closer to the latter date.
MARRIAGE: By 1627 MARY BUCKETT (in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle George Soule had wife Mary and son Zachariah; Mary has been identified by many writers as Mary Buckett of the 1623 land division on that basis that no other Mary was available in the limited Plymouth population of the earliest years). She died about December 1672 (son John Soule indicated in an account of 1676 that "my mother died which was three year the last December" [ MD 2:83-84]).
CHILDREN:
    i ZACHARIAH, b. by 1627; m. by 1663 Margaret _____ [ Scrapbook 20].

    ii JOHN, b. about 1632 (deposed 8 March 1705/6 aged "about seventy-four years" [ MD 5:46, citing PLR 7:35]); m. (1) by about 1656 Rebecca Simonson, daughter of MOSES SIMONSON (estimated b. of eldest child [ MF 3:7]); m. (2) by 1679 Esther (Delano) Samson, daughter of PHILIP DELANO and widow of Samuel Samson [ TAG 15:165-67; TG 1:233; MF 3:7].

    iii NATHANIEL, b. between say 1634 and 1646 (adult by 1667/8 [ PCR 3:178]); before 4 March 1673/4 fathered a child with an unnamed Indian woman and ordered to pay ten bushels of corn to her for the keeping of the child [ PCR 5:163]; m. by 1681 Rose _____ (eldest child b. Dartmouth 12 January 1681[/2]).

    iv GEORGE, b. about 1639 (deposed 1 March 1672/3 "aged 34 years or thereabouts" [Newport Court Book A:30]); m. by 1671 Deborah _____ (estimated birth of first children [ MF 3:9]).

    v SUSANNA, b. say 1640; m. by 1660 Francis West (estimated birth of first child [ MF 3:10]).

    vi MARY, b. about 1642 (in 1653 bound out for seven years or eight if she did not marry [ MD 1:214]); m. by 1667 John Peterson (estimated birth of first child [ MF 3:10]).

    vii ELIZABETH, b. say 1644 (fined for committing fornication 3 March 1662/3 [ PCR 5:34]; sued Nathaniel Church 5 October 1663 for refusing to marry her [ PCR 7:111]; ordered whipped 2 July 1667 for committing fornication a second time [ PCR 5:162]); m. by 23 July 1668 Francis Walker.

    viii PATIENCE, b. say 1646; m. Middleboro January 1666[/7] John Haskell [ MiddleVR 1:1].

    ix BENJAMIN, b. say 1652; fell with Capt. Pierce 26 March 1676 during King Philip's War [ Bodge 350]; unm.



COMMENTS: Bradford, in his list of passengers of the Mayflower, included George Soule as one of "two men-servants" of Mr. Edward Winslow [ Bradford 441]. In 1651 Bradford summed up the group headed by Winslow, saying that one of the servants died, "but his man, George Soule, is still living, and hath eight children" [ Bradford 444].
On 3 January 1636/7 George Soule and Nathaniel Thomas sued and countersued each other over two heifers [ PCR 7:4].
On 3 June 1662 "Gorg Soule" was on a list of freemen desiring to look for additional land "being the first born children of this government" [ PCR 4:19].
On 5 March 1667/8 George Soule Sr. stood surety with his son John for the good behavior of his son Nathaniel Soule who had verbally abused Mr. John Holmes, teacher of the church at Duxburrow [ PCR 4:178].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1980 the General Society of Mayflower Descendants published a genealogy of five generations of descent from George Soule as the third volume in its series of silver volumes [John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Three: George Soule (Plymouth 1980), ed. Anne Borden Harding (cited herein as MF 3)]. This is a seriously flawed volume, which should not be relied upon. George E. McCracken and Neil D. Thompson published lengthy reviews pointing out some of the problems [ TG 1:225-58; TAG 57:57-58].

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Buckett, - DEC 1672 Index

Alias:   Beckett /Buchet/

Immigration:
     Date:   31 JUL 1623
     Place:   Aboard the Anne

Individual Notes

Note for: Johann Julius Specht, 23 MAR 1748/49 - Index

Event:
     Type:   Misc
     Place:   Came to Canada as a mercenary to fight the french for the english - find web site for this

Individual Notes

Note for: Harvey Blake, 28 JUN 1809 - 2 MAR 1889 Index

Alias:   /Hervey/

Occupation:
     Place:   Seems like Shoemaker was listed as occupation entire adult life

Residence:
     Date:   1860
     Place:   Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Event:
     Type:   Misc
     Place:   Died of Pneumonia

Individual Notes

Note for: Elias Blake, 17 MAR 1773 - 22 MAR 1857 Index

Residence:
     Date:   1850
     Place:   Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Residence:
     Date:   1810
     Place:   Wrentham -1810 United States Federal Census

Residence:
     Date:   1830
     Place:   Wrentham -1830 United States Federal Census

Residence:
     Date:   1840
     Place:   Wrentham -1840 United States Federal Census

Event:
     Type:   Misc
     Date:   1857
     Place:   Cause of death - Old Age

Individual Note:
     Says he was a widower at death.

1810 census has just one child counted- this would be Harvey.

Anna died in 1811. There is this marriage record 5 months later
1811 BLAKE Elias and Nancy Darling, Jan. 1, 1811. more Marriage Wrentham
but I believe this was another Elias born around 1790. He shows up in the 1850 cenus living with the Darling family whereas Elias 1773 is living with a Henry and Hannah Blake in the 1850 census? Is Henry another son born before Anna died or did he remarry someone else?

There is also a marriage in Wrentham in 1813 of Elias Blake and Lucinda Lincoln- they had 3 children. not sure who they are.

Individual Notes

Note for: Anna Bullard, 24 JUL 1780 - JUL 1811 Index

Individual Note:
Lists her MN as "Ware" on Elias death record but I believe that to be an error. Entry directly above this was also Ware and I think it was copied over or its a big conincidence. Need to search and see if they were actually related. Unable to find any Ann. M. Ware.