Tristram Haskell (1767 - 1854)

Born 27 Dec 1767 in Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Betsey (Barton) Haskell — married 31 Dec 1805 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States

Husband of Ruth (Weed) Haskell — married 8 Sep 1839 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States

Descendants

Died 29 Mar 1854 at age 86 in Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States

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Biography

Tristram Haskell; baptized 27 Dec 1767^[1] at Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts; He was the son ofof Francis Haskell and Elizabeth Wheeler

m1. Martha Merchant, daughter of Anthony Merchant and Abigail Raynes, 20 Dec 1791^[2];

m2. Betsey Barton, daughter of James Barton and Martha Andrews, 31 Dec 1805^[3] at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine;

m3. Ruth Weed, daughter of Benjamin Weed and Hannah Eaton, 8 Sep 1839 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine;

He died 29 Mar 1854 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 86.

Martha Merchant was born in 1771 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. She died on 2 Nov 1803 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

Known children of Tristram Haskell and Martha Merchant were as follows:

• i. Francis Haskell; b. 25 Sep 1791 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; b. 25 Sep 1792 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Phoebe Carman, daughter of Dominicus Carman and Dolly Howard, 25 Aug 1814 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 12 Mar 1839 at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, at age 47.

• ii. Davis Haskell; b. 24 Sep 1793; m. Hannah Weed, daughter of Joseph Weed and Judith Eaton, 1816 at Hancock, Maine; m. Betsey E. Weed 6 Feb 1817 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

• iii. Tristram Haskell; b. 25 Feb 1795 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Mary Small, daughter of Naylor Small and Eunice Carman, 24 Dec 1818 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Mary Marshall, daughter of Levi Marshall and Elizabeth Haskell, 8 Aug 1862 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 11 Jan 1871 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 75.

• iv. Dr. Peter H. Haskell; b. 18 Apr 1798 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Susan Eaton, daughter of Solomon Eaton and Catherine Howard, 10 Jun 1817; d. Feb 1863 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 64.

• v. John Raynes Haskell; b. 14 Mar 1800^[4] at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Martha Green, daughter of Asa Green and Martha Scott, 9 Aug 1821 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

• vi. Joshua P Haskell; b. 28 Oct 1803^[5] at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Mary Stinson, daughter of William Stinson and Mary York, 19 Jan 1842 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Sabelia L. Small, daughter of Joseph Small and Fanny Green, 11 Mar 1857 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 31 May 1880 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 76; he was buried at Old Settler's Cemetery, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

Known children of Tristram Haskell and an unknown spouse were:

• i. Betsey Haskell; b. 23 Sep 1796 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. James Stinson, son of Samuel Stinson and Hannah H. Babbidge, 28 Apr 1818 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

Betsey Barton was born in 1785 at Castine, Hancock, Maine. She died on 19 Aug 1836 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

Known children of Tristram Haskell and Betsey Barton all b. at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, were as follows:

• i. William Barton Haskell; b. 4 Jul 1806^[6]; m. Susan Pressey, daughter of Jonathan Pressey and Olive Trundy, 15 Aug 1830; m. Rebecca Lou Haskell, daughter of Solomon Haskell and Joanna Carman, 18 Jul 1855 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 23 Jun 1861 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 54.

• ii. Barbara Haskell; b. 26 Jun 1808.

• iii. George Washington Haskell; b. 26 Jun 1808 or 1809^[7]; m. Susan Closson Bray, daughter of Jonathan Bray and Abigail Closson, 25 Dec 1832 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 19 Apr 1847 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 37.

• iv. Lucy Davis Haskell; b. 13 Jul 1813; m. Adam Thompson, son of Adam Thompson and Mary Barbour, 2 Dec 1830 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 30 Nov 1894^[8] at age 81.

• v. Susan Haskell; b. 12 Oct 1815^[9]; m. Frederick S. Pressey, son of Jonathan Pressey and Olive Trundy, 7 Dec 1837 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Alfred Bray, son of Jonathan Bray and Abigail Closson, 28 Sep 1860 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 11 Mar 1898^[10] at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 82.

• vi. Solomon Haskell; b. 27 Oct 1818^[11]; d. 30 Nov 1836 at age 18.

• vii. Barbara Barton Green Haskell; b. 2 Nov 1821^[12]; m. Frederick Eaton, son of Nathan Eaton and Dorothy Pressey, 10 Jan 1841 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 8 Sep 1898^[13] at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 76.

• viii. Elizabeth Wheeler Haskell; b. 28 Dec 1824; she and Edwin Blake Spofford marr. pub. 14 Jul 1844 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 14 Oct 1898^[14] at age 73; she was buried at Mount Adams Cemetery, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

• ix. John Haskell; b. 22 Jun 1828; m. Lucy Maria Pickering, daughter of Richard Pickering and Keziah Nason, 26 Dec 1853 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; m. Catherine S. Saunders, daughter of John Saunders and Sally Bray, 25 Feb 1863 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine; d. 25 Mar 1900 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, at age 71.

Ruth Weed was born in 1785 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. She married Jacob Tuttle on 2 Apr 1802 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. She married Josiah Gray, son of James Gray and Elizabeth Howard, on 11 Jun 1822 at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine. She died at Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine.

There were no known children of Tristram Haskell and Ruth Weed.

United States Census, 1850^[15] Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States

Household Role Sex Age Birthplace

Tristram Haskell M 79 Massachusetts

Rutha Haskell F 65 Maine

John Haskell M 22 Maine

Tristram ⁶Haskell [Deacon Francis⁵, Capt. Mark⁴, William³. William²-, William¹] was the 13th child of the large family of Deacon Francis Haskell recorded on pages 18 and 19. Since making the statement, on page 59, that Sarah⁶ was “the baby of the family” when her father came to Deer Isle, I have learned from various facts and from a statement made by Tristram’s son, Capt. John ⁷ Haskell of Deer Isle, that his father is entitled to this position instead of Sarah. Capt John says, “Father Tristram was 2 years old when he came here and his father Francis⁵ built a log house on the north shore of North West Harbor, just opposite the present (July, 1901) town hall. The flat rock door-step still remains 011 the ground as a mark where the house stood. Father was born in Newhuryport and the last two children born here. He was a sea-captain until, in his old age, he retired to a farm on the land where I now live and his frame house stood about twenty feet from the eastern end of mine. About forty years ago 1 tore it down soon after building mine, as the old frame took a lean towards the new building and threatened to collapse at any time. Father died in this old house, of old age, and is buried in the Old Cemetery where a stone, erected to his memory, shows that lie died March 29, 1854, aged S6 years and 3 months.” Hence we learn from this that Tristram0 was born January, 176S, and being 2 years old upon his arrival here, corroborates the statement made on page iS, that Deacon Francis⁵ and his family came here in 1770.
      The lot of land taken up by the Deacon was one of the largest allotted on Deer Island, consisting of 250. acres, extending from the shore, where stood the log house above mentioned, north-easterly in a long strip 67 rods wide, the parallel sides of which measured 610 rods on the western and 591 rods on the eastern line. This lot was not officially laid out with permanent bounds until after Deacon Haskell’s death, when John Peters, Jr., of Bluehill, made an established survey of the proprietors’ lots of Deer Isle, about the year 1798, and ascribed the above premises to Jonathan and Tristram Haskell, brothers, and rightful heirs, by inheritance and assignment, to the property. The end of the lot next the shore eventually became Tristram’s, as noted above, where his son Capt. John Haskell resides, while that portion towards Carman’s Rock was occupied by Jonathan —14—Haskell and his descendants, as given on page 25. The original lot of Francis"’ ended in the woods about 200 rods west- north-west of Torrey's Pond, and adjacent to its western border was a 250 acre lot laid out to Mark Haskell and his sons, while on the eastern line was a 200 acre lot belonging to the heirs of Ezekiel Marshall. The shore end of the Marshall lot is the land now occu¬ pied by the stores and business section of Deer Isle Village, and it began on the point at the .mill-dam just in front of the present (Aug 1901) town ha-11, and extern.led to within 60 rods of Torrey’s Pond. Tristram married (1st ) Martha or Patty Merchant of Merchant’s Island, daughtei of Anthony Merchant, the first settler in thelimits of the present town of Isle au Haul- and whose wife was Abigail Raynes, daughter of pioneer John Raynes, Sr. Martha died Nov. 2, 1S03, at one o’clock, and she was probably a sister to Susannah Merchant who went to live with them October 24, 1S03. Pie was married, Dec. 31, 1805, in Deer Isle, by the Rev. Joseph Brown, to { (2nd) Betsey Barton of Ca'stine, Me., by whom he had 3 children, foiu sons and four daughters. She died, Aug. 19, 1836 in the 51st year of her age, from consumption, in the old house torn down by Captain John7 Haskell as above stated. She is buried in the Old Cemetery where her grave stone gives date of death and age as a- hove. Betsey had a brother William who came to Tristram’s and died with consumption, and it was from him that Betsey contracted 1 lie disease. She also had a sister, Ruth, who married a Gott on Swan’s Island, Me., and another, Barbara, who married a Green of Eastport, who ran a brig packet to Baltimore. Tristram’s 3rd wife was Ruth Weed, daughter of Benjamin Weed by his wife, who was a daughter of William Eaton. Ruth married Gst) Mr. Tuttle, a shoemaker who died of consumption and is buried in Old Cemetery. Mrs. Tuttle had a sister who married Josiah Gray, at the Reach. She died and then Ruth married him. Josiah had 110 children by Ruth but had a large family by first wife among whom were James, Abijah, Otis. Dotis, and a daughter who married Silas Gray. After Josiah Gray's death Ruth married (3rd) Tristram Has¬ kell, who was seventy-one years old at the time. The old family rec¬ ord of Tristram Haskell contains the following, “My Dear Wife Ruth Departed this Life April the 30th 1851, her age 70 years.” Tristram gave his homestead to his youngest sou, Capt. John, for his maintenance and now Capt. John has transferred it to his niece, Mrs. Everett Haskell, and her husband. Tristram recorded in au old account book the births of his child¬ ren, some death items and other data regarding the family. This book is now (Aug. 1901) in the possession of his son, “Capt- John,” and from it I have extiacted the above, which reads as follows,

BIRTHS.

Francis Haskell, born Sept. 25, 1792.

Davis Haskell, born Sept. 24, 1793.

Tristram Uaskeli, born Feb. 25, 1795.

Betsey Haskell, born Sept. 23 1796

Peter Haskell, born April 18, 1798

John Haskell, born March 14, 1800

Abigail Haskell, born November 9, 1801

Joshua Haskell, born October 28, 1803

William Haskell, born July 4, 1806

Barbara Haskell, born June 26, 1808

Washington Haskell, June 26, 1809

Lucy Haskell, born July 13 1813

Susannah Haskell, born Oct. 12 1815

Solomon Haskell, born October 27, 1818

Barbara Barton Green Haskell, Born November 2, 1821

Elizabeth Haskell, December 28, 1824

John Haskell, born Jun 22, 1828

DEATHS, ETC.

Patty, wife of Tristram, died November 2, 1803 at r o’clock.

Sally Powers took my child, Joshua, November 9, 1803.

Susannah Merchant came to live with us October 24, 1S03.

Mother (Elizabeth Wheeler, B. L. N.) died June 20, 1804.

My wife Betsy departed this life August 19, 1836 in the 5rst year of her age.

Solomon died November 30, 1836 aged 18yrs. 33 days.

Washington died April 19, 1847.

My Dear Wife Ruth Departed this Life April the 30th 1851, her age 70 years ”

Tristram⁶ discontinued his position as master-mariner chiefly on account of increasing deafness, but the farm on the shore lot, received from his father, furnished ample work and a good subsistence with what he had accumulated from his many years of voyaging. The division line between Tristram’s⁶ lot and that of his brother Jonathan’s⁶is now (1901) marked by the private lane leading from the workshop of the late Capt. Benjamin G. Barbour, north-westerly to his pasture; thence it follows the south-western border of the late Austin D. Haskell’s lot. The old Shakespeare school-house, which was torn down not far from fourtv years ago, would, if now standing, fill captain Barbour s door- yard and its northern sill would rest about where the southern sill of the shop now is.—thus standing 011 Tristram⁶ Haskell property. The northerly bound of Jonathan’s⁶ share of the cultivated part of the estate conformed nearly with the road to North Deer Isle. lo the north-east of this road was Deacon Francis⁶ large wood lot, the greater diate of which came into Jonathan’s⁶ hands by paying an extra compensation for same. Tristram’s0 portion of wood land being so small, this end of the lot afterwards fell mainly to Jonathan⁶ descendants who have sold it to various parties for clearing and building thereon since. The road leading up Barbour’s Hill to the present Shakespeare schoolhouse marks the eastern line separating the Deacon Francis-’ lot from Ezekiel Marshall’s. The children of Captain Tristram0 Haskell were all born at Deer Isle, S by his first and 9 by his second wife as follows:—

Sources

1. ↑ Newburyport - Births Image of page 183
2. ↑ Maine, Church Records, 1734-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPHY-6C5B : 3 October 2019), Tristram Haskell and Patty Marchant, 20 Dec 1791; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 008133037.
3. ↑ "Maine, Church Records, 1734-1907," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QGLN-VTMQ : 3 October 2019), Tristram Haskell and Betsey Barton, 25 Dec 1805; citing Marriage, Maine, United States, Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington D.C.; FHL microfilm 008133037.
4. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-J8S : 14 January 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for John Haskell, 1800.
5. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-K8N : 14 January 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Joshua Haskell, 1803.
6. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-2VY : 14 January 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for William Haskell, 1806.
7. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-BXV : 14 January 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Washington Haskell, 1808.
8. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCDY-VS4 : 4 April 2020), Tristum Haskell in entry for Lucy Thompson, 30 Nov 1894; citing Deer Isle, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
9. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-W9X : 14 January 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Susan Haskell, 1815.
10. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZ36-JD7 : 4 April 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Susan H Bray, 11 Mar 1898; citing Deer Isle, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
11. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-PVN : 14 January 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Solomon Haskell, 1818.
12. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H5-DQ3 : 14 January 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Barbara Barton Haskell, 1821.
13. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZQ9-W7Z : 4 April 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Barbara B Eaton, 08 Sep 1898; citing Deer Isle, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
14. ↑ "Maine Vital Records, 1670-1921," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KCDP-ZC2 : 4 April 2020), Tristram Haskell in entry for Elizabeth Spofford, 14 Oct 1898; citing Deer Isle, , Maine, United States, multiple sources, Maine; FHL microfilm.
15. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6JP-V3G : 4 April 2020), Tristram Haskell, Deer Isle, Hancock, Maine, United States; citing family 13, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).