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Note: Asa was in the Rev. War [W25366] enlisted 2 Feb 1776 in Capt. Downs Company.
Hitty is listed as "Hitty Adams, former widow of Asa Hoskins] Adams maybe a 2nd married name.

Source: (Name)
Title: Mary & John Clearinghouse
Media: Book
Page: Vol. 5

Source: (Name)
Title: Windsor, CT Vital Records

Death: BET 1776 AND 1786

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Hoskins, Anthony Sergt. (b. 19 JAN 1694/95, d. ABT 1760)

Note: Harwinton, Litchfield, Conn. was formed from Hartford County, Conn. in 1737. The family apparently never moved, but the county & town boundaries changed.

Source: (Name)
Title: Gillett Family
Author: Bertha Bortle Beal Aldredge
Publication: 1955
Media: Book

Source: (Name)
Title: Windsor, CT Vital Records

Source: (Birth)
Title: History of Ancient Windsor
Author: FTM - Local & Family Histories
Media: Family Archive CD

Death: ABT 1760 Harwinton, Litchfield, CT

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Gillett, Mary (b. 9 JUL 1705, d. 28 APR 1746)

Source: (Name)
Title: Gillett Family
Author: Bertha Bortle Beal Aldredge
Publication: 1955
Media: Book

Death: 28 APR 1746 Harwinton, Litchfield, CT

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Hoskins, Anthony (b. 12 APR 1731, d. 13 APR 1819)

Note: History of Great Barrington, Mass. -
"The settlements, especially north of the bridge, were for the most part confined to the valley of the river, and did not, to much extent, pentrate the more remote parts of the Upper Township until after the divisions of the east and west tiers of Long Lots, which were made in 1753-54. Soon after these divisions, familes by the name of Hamlin, Brunson[Bronson], Munger, Wilcox, Helsy[Kelsey] and Rew located in the west part of the Upper Township, some of whom were afterwards, by the change of the town line, included in Alford."

On 16 August 1762, a town meeting was held to act on a list of "freeholders" to serve as jurors. Anthony HOSKINS was included in the list. Others were Eliatha Rew, John Hamlin, Daniel Munger and Stephen Kelsey.

History of Washington County, New York -
"Anthony Haskins came from Shaftesbury, Vermont, to Fort Ann in 1788. Settled near Thompson's. Of his children, Seth was murdered in Saratoga county; John was a Methodist minister, and with Isaac, went to western New York; William and David settled in Chautauqua; Ira went to Clinton county, and afterwards to Chautauqua; Franklin lived on the homestead; Martha became Mrs. Samuel Winegar, of Fort Ann; and Sarah died on the day she was to have been married. Franklin had ten children; one died in childhood; the other nine are still living, the youngest being sixty years old. Anthony, Samuel, Ensign and Martha Thompson, of this town, are four of these children."

In 1795, Anthony was on the list of electors who did not possess a freehold, but was renting tenements of the yearly value of forty shillings, and thereby qualified to vote for assemblymen.
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The following history was furnished by Freedom Haskins of Fentonville, N.Y. and at the Haskins reunion held June 8, 1882 at Maple Springs, was read by Rev. S.S. Owens of Detroit Mich.;

"This old grandfather Anthony Haskins was of Welsh descent and raised in the Green Mountains of Vermont, was a great hunter and lived on a mountain. As the country was new there was not much chance to make a living by farming and as he had a large family to support, he had to hunt or starve.

He would get up in the morning, shoulder his gun and sometimes kill a deer before breakfast, or before they could have meat to eat. Therefore he was forced to become the great hunter that he was, he killed as high as 4 deer in one day and been as long as two days without food at other times.

When he did get it he had to put up with water, johnny-cake and venison. Those were the luxeries as well as the necessaries of life that could be proccured in those days. He lived in that way until the French and Indian Wars broke out in 1762 when a party of French and Indians came up Lake Champlain and also Lake George where they were met by a company of Green Mountain Boys, among whom Anthony played his part about two miles from the head of Lake George at Bloody Pond where he and his comrades gave the French and Indians one of the worst whippings a set of men ever got. They killed a lot of Indians and rather than bury them they threw them into a small pond, hence the name "Bloody Pond" He returned to his home and hunting where he lived on johnny-cake and Venison until the war broke out in 1776. He volunteered in the American Cause.

His principle business for about three years was boating on Lake Champlain carrying supplies to the Army at Fort Ticonderoga, after which he was engaged in the Battle of Bennington. He and two of his boys were in the Battle of Saratoga. After the war he moved to the town of Fort Ann, Washington County, N.Y. where he went into the woods and he and his boys cleared up a farm. He was now getting too old to do much work, so his youngest son took the farm and lived with them, or him, until he died at the ripe old age of 92. His wife out lived him by 6 years and died at the age of 88 years.

I will now give you a description of the old man and woman, He was about 6 ft. tall, broad shouldered and his weight about 200 lbs., dark complection, dark eyes and hair, heavy beard and evidently a very strong man in his day.

The old lady was medium height, straight and squarely built, fair complection, blue eyes, light hair and quite gray when I knew her and evidently handsome, so you see they were a pretty square couple in their day. She was a very generous old lady and never turned a beggar away from her door hungry. She was a mother to me from the time I was 4 years old until I was 19 hence the reason I know their history so well. I cannot say much about my uncles and Aunts any more than they were considered honest people and good citizens.
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Anthony Hoskins served in the French and Indian wars as one of Ethan Allen's "Green Mountain Boys".
Green Mountain Boys, popular name of armed bands formed (c.1770) under the auspices of Ethan Allen in the
[Green Mountains of what is today Vermont. The Green Mountain Boys were a citizens' militia founded in Fay's Tavern in Bennington in 1770. Their purpose was to prevent the New Hampshire Grants, as Vermont was then known, from becoming part of New York, to which it had been awarded by the British. Land speculators, such as Allen and his brothers, and settlers banded together in armed groups to defend their lands. Their methods were threat, intimidation, and actual violence against the New Yorkers, and they managed to keep the region free from New York control, establishing (1777) instead a separate government that ultimately achieved (1791) statehood for Vermont. In the American Revolution the Green Mountain Boys figured prominently in 1775, when, under Allen's leadership, they captured Ticonderoga. In 1777 Seth Warner and John Stark led them to victory at Bennington—one of the notable achievements of the revolutionaries in the Saratoga campaign.]

Source: (Name)
Title: Windsor, CT Vital Records

Source: (Death)
Title: Cemetery Inscription
Media: Book

Event: Type: Individual Note
Date: 25 MAR 1763
Place: Marr. Intention in Great Barrington, Berkshire, MA

Death: 13 APR 1819 Fort Ann, Washington, NY

Burial: Haskins Cemetery, Ft. Ann, Washington, NY

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Hoskins, Daniel (b. 22 JUL 1741, d. AFT 1790)

Note: Daniel enlisted in Capt. Aaron Rowley's Co., Col. Benjamin Simond's Regt. 26 Apr 1777 and discharged 10 May 1777. The Company marched to Saratoga.

Daniel and most of his children stayed in the Berkshire, Mass. area.

Death: AFT 1790 Washington, Berkshire, MA

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Hoskins, Hannah (b. 5 APR 1744, d. BEF 1750)

Death: BEF 1750 Died young, Harwinton, Litchfield, CT

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Haskins, Benoni Alford (b. 26 APR 1746, d. AFT 1 JUN 1830)

Note: The births of many of his children appear in the Alford, Mass. vital records, but have been misspelled or transcribed and appear under "Hopkins". History of Berkshire, Mass. 1885 also mentions him as "Hopkins".

According to Rev. War military records, his application for military pension was rejected or suspended because he claimed to have been an Ensign in the Rev. War from May 1782 to the end of the war, but he had an "unusual tour" which required some proof or explanation.

HOSKINS, Benoni MA Alford Berkshire Co.
Sergeant, Capt. Sylvanus Willcox's co., Col. John Ashley's regt.; from 19 Sep to 17 Oct 1777. Ref. MA01

Source: (Name)
Title: Kelsey Family History

Death: AFT 1 JUN 1830 Keeney Settlement, Fabius, Onondaga, NY

Burial: Keeney Cemetery, Fabius, Onondaga, NY

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Goodrich, Rhoda (b. 16 JUN 1745, d. 28 JAN 1824)

Source: (Name)
Title: Kelsey Family History

Source: (Name)
Title: Cemetery Inscription
Media: Book
Data:
Text: Cemetery records say she was born in 1750

Source: (Name)
Title: Memorials: Historical Account of the Name of Mudge
Author: Alfred Mudge
Publication: Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son, 1868
Call number: R929.2 M944
Media: Book

Death: 28 JAN 1824 Fort Ann, Washington, NY

Burial: Haskins Cemetery, Ft. Ann, Washington, NY

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Haskins, Sarah Sally (b. 27 APR 1778, d. 1 JAN 1799)

Source: (Death)
Title: Cemetery Inscription
Media: Book
Page: Haskins Cemetery, Fort Ann, NY

Death: 1 JAN 1799 Fort Ann, Washington, NY

Burial: Haskins Cemetery, Ft. Ann, Washington Co, NY