John Hascall Jr.

Biography

John Hascall was born at Middleborough, inland from Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts, on June 11, 1670, a son of John Haskell and Patience Soule. He married Mary Squire in 1699. Their family included Squire Hascall, whose given name preserved his mother's surname.

John's dealings in inherited land connect his adult life to his parents' household. A deed abstract records that on September 8, 1711 he sold Middleborough land to Thomas Drinkwater; Mary also signed. The property had belonged to his father and Francis Walker. A further sale to Jonathan Bryant in October 1718 again involved land connected with those two older men.

The couple's children were born over roughly a quarter-century. Their family experienced the deaths of two young daughters named Sarah, one in 1704 and another in 1710. By the end of John's life the family was associated with Killingly, in northeastern Connecticut. Administration of the estate of John Haskell of Killingly was granted on April 24, 1729, and an inventory followed in March 1731.