tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post2305430417362531333..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Big News in Boston 250 Years AgoUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-18502613708186662552021-09-26T05:00:00.371-05:002021-09-26T05:00:00.371-05:00My great great grandfather was from Newburyport an...My great great grandfather was from Newburyport and was named after George Whitefield. My line of the Haskell family had lived in Newburyport (and Newbury) for 5 or 6 generations. They came from Gloucester. My 8th great-grandfather's house still stands in Gloucester, has been renovated, and is now a bed and breakfast (The William Haskell House). Before that he lived in Beverly (part of Salem at the time). The line in Newburyport included three Caleb Haskells. The first Caleb may have been in the French and Indian War in a militia company commanded by Joseph Cotton. The second Caleb marched out of Newburyport on April 19th to answer the Lexington alarm with Captain Moses Nowell's militia company, which was recalled from Cambridge a few days later, because of fear of a British attack on the towns near the Merrimac River. Caleb then enlisted with Captain Ezra Lunt's company and marched back to Cambridge to be part of Colonel Moses Little's Regiment (the company captains petitioned to not be commanded by Colonel Gerrish and Little became the regimental commander). In September Caleb signed up for detached duty with Captain Samuel Ward's company in Lt. Colonel Christopher Greene's Battalion to go to Quebec with Colonel Arnold. He made it home to Newburyport safely by May 1776 (his diary has been published). He named his son Caleb (my 3rd ggf), and he married Fannie Matilda Betts (daughter of Dr. Azor Betts) in Canada in March 1815, right after the end of the War of 1812. Their son was George Whitefield Haskell, who served in the 3rd Unattached Company, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia for 90 days in 1864 at Forts Lee and Pickering, defending Salem Harbor from Confederate invasion. My great grandfather was named George Whitefield Haskell, Jr. He moved the family up the coast to Maine and married a descendant of John and Frances Farrar/Farrow (who had landed at Hingham, Massachusetts in 1635), Alice Arminta Crockett.ZombyDawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01608480990735480437noreply@blogger.com