Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
HASCALL, JOSEPH, from Bennington, 1787, married Alice Fitch, and settled on the present homestead of James N. Mason.
He was deacon of the first Baptist church twenty-four years. He was a man of great energy and perseverance and contributed more than most men in the construction and building up of society.
He raised a family of ten children, to whom he gave all the educational advantages compatible with his limited means; their names follow: Ralph, Asa, David A., Daniel, Safford, Lebbeus, Alice, Clara, Nancy and Philene.
Ralph was an attorney and settled in Essex, N.Y. He represented his county in the senate and assembly; Asa was an attorney, settled in Malone, N.Y.; he also was in the senate and assembly and in congress; Dr. David A. settled in Kentucky.
Rev. Daniel Hascall settled in Hamilton, N. Y.; Safford m. Betsey, da. of Nath. Carver, and succeeded to the homestead, but removed to Kentucky about 1818; Lebbeus was an attorney and settled at Ticonderoga, N.Y.
Clara married Joel Harmon, Jr.; Alice, Nathaniel Harmon; Nancy, Dr. Stearns, of Pompey, N.Y., and Philene,
Mr. Baker, of the same place.
It is a somewhat singular fact that all these brothers lost their wives and married a second time.
Three of the sisters died before their husbands. All of them are now dead.
Deacon Hascall died in 1814, aged 73;. his widow died at Pompey, N.Y., about 1845, over 90.
Their descendants are widely scattered in the northern and western states.
HASCALL, Rev. DANIEL, graduated at Middlebury in 1806, and was soon after licensed to preach by the Baptist church in this town.
He was a man of great industry and ability and was mainly instrumental in establishing the theological seminary at Hamilton, N.Y., where he was settled as pastor.
He was the first principal of that institution and continued in that position for several years.
He spent a few of the last years of his life in West Rutland, where he had married the widow Moses.
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