Benjamin
HASSELL
(b.
abt. 1677
,
Dunstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony
d.
2 September 1691
,
Dunstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony
)
Cause of Death: killed by Indians in massacre
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Benjamin HASSELL was born abt. 1677 in Dunstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Benjamin HASSELL was the child of Joseph HASSELL and Anna PERRY and the grandchild of: (paternal) Richard HASSELL (HASWELL) and Joan BATEMAN? BANKS? (maternal) William PERRY and Anne UNKNOWNBenjamin HASSELL died 2 September 1691 in Dunstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony.
SOURCE: History of the Old Township of Dunstable: Including Nashua, Nashville, Hollis, Hudson, Litchfield, and Merrimac, N. H.; Dunstable and Tyngsborough, Mass., by Charles J. Fox, Nashua: Charles T. Gill, Publisher, 1846.
(pp. 62-63)
". . . In the summer of 1691 the war was renewed and the Indian ravages recommenced. Small scouting parties attacked many of the neighboring settlements. . . On the evening of Sept. 2, 1691, they suddenly appeared in this town, and attacked the house of Joseph HASSELL, senior. Hassell, his wife Anna HASSELL, their son Benjamin HASSELL, and Mary MARKS, daughter of Patrick MARKS, were slain. There is a tradition that Mary MARKS was killed between the Hollis road and the canal about a quarter of a mile above the Nashua Corporation.
They were all buried upon the little knoll where Hassell's house stood, and a rough stone without inscription points out the spot.* A second stone stood there until within a few years, having been preserved for so long a period as raised to the dead, but at length falling into the hands of a new proprietor, and standing in the way of his plough, it was taken up and thrown into the cellar by their side which is not yet quite filled up. . ."
*Hassell's house stood on the north bank of Salmon Brook, on a small knoll just in rear of Miss Alids' house, where the cellar and grave stones may still be seen. [presumably at the time of publication, in 1846]
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