{"id":27633,"date":"2017-12-18T10:53:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=27633"},"modified":"2023-11-28T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T18:54:30","slug":"my-5th-great-grandfather-lt-nathaniel-haskell-in-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/my-5th-great-grandfather-lt-nathaniel-haskell-in-the-american-revolution.html","title":{"rendered":"My 5th-Great-Grandfather Lt. Nathaniel Haskell in the American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

My fifth-great-grandfather Lieutenant Nathaniel Haskell<\/a> (1742-1794) was a Revolutionary War veteran from Maine. From my notes, I knew he was born in 1742 in Hampton Falls, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, and an Internet search led me to HaskellFamilyHistory.com, where I learned a bit more about his life and military service:<\/p>\n

\u201cNathaniel Haskell moved, as a young man, from Hampton Falls, Rockingham Co, NH, to New Gloucester, Cumberland Co., ME, and served in the Thirty-First Regiment of the Revolutionary Army from that town.\u201d<\/p>\n

–Source: HaskellFamilyHistory.com<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I knew that regiment was commanded by Col. Edmund Phinney \u2013 so next, I searched for Col. Edmund Phinney\u2019s name in GenealogyBank to see what else I could learn about the regiment.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the \u201cGovernment Publications\u201d collection I found an American Historical Association report that mentioned a book about Phinney\u2019s regiment, written by Nathaniel Goold.<\/p>\n

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Source: GenealogyBank, Annual report of the American Historical Association for the year 1905, 30 June 1906, page 245<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I then searched the Internet and found that Goold\u2019s book has been scanned and put online by the Internet Archive. I have written about them before here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Source: Archive.org. Goold, Nathaniel. \u201cHistory of Colonel Edmund Phinney\u2019s Thirty-first regiment of foot, eight months\u2019 service men of 1775, with biographical sketches of the commissioned officers and rolls of the companies.\u201d Portland, Maine: Thurston Press, 1896.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Goold\u2019s book gave me more information about Nathaniel\u2019s service in that regiment:<\/p>\n

\u201cSecond Lieut. Nathaniel Haskell entered the service from the same town, May 15, 1775. He married at Falmouth, Aug. 30, 1763, Deborah Bailey, and probably moved to New Gloucester before the war.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Source: Archive.org. Goold, Nathaniel. \u201cHistory of Colonel Edmund Phinney\u2019s Thirty-first regiment of foot, eight months\u2019 service men of 1775, with biographical sketches of the commissioned officers and rolls of the companies.\u201d Portland, Maine: Thurston Press, 1896. Page 44.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nathaniel died in 1794 in New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine, and was buried in the Lower Corner Cemetery. I found his gravestone on Find a Grave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Photo: Nathaniel Haskell\u2019s gravestone, Lower Corner Cemetery, New Gloucester, Cumberland County, Maine. Source: Find a Grave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The time-worn inscription reads:<\/p>\n

In memory of
\nCAPT. NATHANIEL HASKELL,
\nwho was an officer in the American Revolutionary war.
\nHe died Feb. 14, 1794. AEt. 52<\/p>\n

\u201cThe graves of all his saints He bles\u2019d,
\nAnd soften\u2019d ev\u2019ry bed:
\nWhere shall the dying members rest,
\nBut with the dying Head?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m lucky to count Nathaniel as one of my many Revolutionary War veteran ancestors.<\/p>\n

Genealogy Tip:<\/em><\/strong> Get additional information on your Revolutionary War veterans by searching the names of their commanding officers for more information about their military service.<\/p>\n

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