Salisbury NH
James Haskell, an African American, served in the Civil War in the famous Mass. 54th Regiment under Robert Gould Shaw, survived, and is buried at Smith’s Corner/Bean Cemetery in Salisbury, though he died in Newport, NH.
We know his grandfather, John Haskell, lived a short distance away over the town line in Warner, a short distance from the original Smith’s Corner/Bean cemetery, before it was moved to Route 4 out of the Blackwater Flood plain in the 1940s.
Before that, a record was made of inscriptions on tombstones in that graveyard, and James Haskell is not listed, though he is indeed buried with a readable stone in the new graveyard by that name.
We know his father, William Haskell, was a well-known basket maker who lived in Warner, NH, but his burial site is unknown.
We know he is connected to the famed Anthony Clark of Warner and Sampson Battis/Moore (1752-1853) of Revolutionary War fame from Canterbury.
We know he was married to Dorcas Paul, who resided in Sanbornton shortly after the Civil War until her death.
Any further info on the connected Paul, Clark, and Battis/Moore lines is welcome.
Please consider the attached PDF genealogies as works in progress and not definitive genealogy reports. Corrections and additions welcome: