NH Early African American communities of Warner, Salisbury, Gilmanton (Belknap Co), Canterbury, Sanbornton
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 the 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 Rte 4 out of the Blackwater Flood plain in the 1940’s.
Prior to 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 to her death.
Any further info on the connected Paul, Clark and Battis/Moore lines are welcome.
Please consider the attached PDF genealogies as works in progress and not definitive genealogy reports. Corrections and additions welcome: