Abigail (Hascall) Haskell (1725 - 1811)

Born 25 Feb 1725 in Killingly, Windham, Connecticut

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Died 6 May 1811 at age 86 in Norwich, Chenango, New York, United States of America

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Fourth Generation descendant of Mayflower passenger, George Soule.

Biography

Abigail Hascall, daughter of John and Mary, was born Feb 25, 1724/5, in Killingly, Connecticut.^[1][2][3] She was baptized 13 June 1725.^[4]

She married William Ransford in Plainfield, Connecticut, 25 Oct 1757. He died in Norwich, Chenango Co., New York, 2 July 1814, age 85y 0m 1d.^[5][2]

The Mayflower George Soule book says William bought 300 acres in Plainfield, Connecticut, in 1735, and then sold it in 1756. Considering that William was only five in 1735, there is definitely something wrong with the statement, dates or wrong William perhaps.^[2]

Norwich in Chenango County, New York, which was first settled in 1788.^[6] Abigail and William's sons, William and Hascall, set out on foot for Chenango County, New York, about 1790, where they settled in Norwich. Two years later Hascall brought his parents from Connecticut to New York.^[7]

Abigail Ransford died 6 May 1811, age 85y 2m 11d, in Norwich, New York.^[2][7]

Children:

• Tamar Ransford, b. Voluntown, (now Sterling), Connecticut; b. about 1759 (based on age at death)^[2]
• William Ransford b. about 1760^[2]
• Daughter Ransford b. about 1763.^[2] "William Gibson's "wife was a sister to Hascall and William Ransford. She died at her brother Hascall's, with whom she went to live when her husband was take sick.^[7]
• Hascall Ransford, b. Voluntown Connecticut 10 Feb 1766, went to Chenango; married 12 July 1792 Fanny Graves dau. of Matthew Graves.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Killingly Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts, Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, 1928. p. 84
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7} George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. Originally compiled by John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry. Revised by Louise Walsh Throop. Mayflower Families in Progress. Seventh Edition. Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015.
3. ↑ The History of Chenango and Madison Counties states this date as Feb 25 1726, and Computed from her death date, she would have been born Feb 1726.
4. ↑ Formerly North Killingly Church Records, Putnam First Congregational Church 1715-1904. Connecticut Church Records Index. Hartford: Connecticut State Library, 1961.
5. ↑ "Haskell Family" The American Genealogist. 28:71, 72
6. ↑ Clark, Hiram C. History of Chenango county, containing the divisions of the county and sketches of the towns; Indian tribes and titles. Norwich, N.Y.: Thompson & Pratt, 1850. p. 96
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2} Smith, James Hadden . History of Chenango and Madison Counties, New York: With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers, Part 1 Syracuse, N.Y.: D. Mason, 1880. p. 309; Gibson p. 318

• Harding, Anne. Mayflower Families Through 5 Generations. Vol 3. George Soule. 1980.