Short Biography of Ruth York and Henry Haskell
RUTH YORK (IV), daughter of John and Ruth (Graves) York, was born about 1682, and died June 16, 1749. She married, January 13, 1703, Henry Haskell. (Haskell V.) Ruth and her brother Joseph were the sole survivors of the family, and came to Gloucester with other refugees from Maine, to escape the ravages of the Indian wars. The proof of her marriage to Henry Haskell is found in York county deeds at Alfred, Maine, Vol. 18, p. 59, in a deed wherein Ruth and Henry Haskell, her husband, of Gloucester, convey to George Dennison all their rights, etc., to a lot in North Yarmouth, formerly of John Yorke, "as said Ruth was a daughter of said John Yorke."
REFERENCES—YORK: Data by Homer W. Brainard of Hartford, Connecticut. "History of Durham, New Hampshire."
Source: "Bullard and Allied Families Genealogy" 2
HENRY HASKELL (V), son of William and Mary (Brown) Haskell, was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts, April 2, 1678, and died in Harvard, April 17, 1739. He married, January 13, 1703, Ruth, daughter of John and Ruth (Graves) York. (See York III.) The gravestones of Henry Haskell and his wife, Ruth, in the cemetery at "Still River," now Harvard, bear the following inscriptions: "Here lies buried the body of Mr. Henry Haskell who departed this life April ye 17th, A. D. 1739, about ye 62 year of his age." "Here lies buried ye body of ye widow Ruth Haskell, Relict to Mr. Henry Haskell, who died June ye 16th, A. D. 1749, about ye 67th year of her age."
Henry Haskell removed from Gloucester to what is now Harvard, Massachusetts, in 1735. His will was dated the year of his death, and his children were as follows:
I—Ruth, b. Oct. 7, 1703, in Gloucester; d. Oct. 15, 1703.
II—Mary, b. Nov. 13, 1704; m. 1726, Benjamin Ray.
III—Henry, b. June 5, 1706; m. 1731, Hulda Smith.
IV—Ruth, b. Aug. 27, 1709; m. Mr. Mead.
V—Sarah, b. Aug. 19, 1713; m. 1733, Nathaniel Bray.
VI—Samuel, b. Sept. 3, 1715.
VII—LYDIA, b. June 28, 1718. (See following.)
REFERENCES—HASKELL: "Haskell Family Genealogy" (U. G. Haskell). "New England Families" (Cutter), Vol. I, pp. 441-442. "Americana," Vol. 21, p. 436.
Source: "Bullard and Allied Families Genealogy" 2
