Nathan Hadsell
Born:	June 6, 1744
Place:	Rhode Island
Died:	Sept 1844
Place:	Pike Co., IL
Barbara Potter
Born:	March 7, 1775
Place:	Stephentown, NY
Died:	1821
Place:	New York

For A Thousand Years:

The Hadsell-Hodsoll Genealogy
of Norway, England and America

By Willard L. Hadsell

Union College Press
Lincoln, Nebraska
Copyrighted, 1956
by Willard L. Hadsell

Nathan was orphaned as a child. He went first to Pittsfield, Massachusettes. And as a young man he moved to Stephentown where he met his wife. She died in childbirth with their 14th child.

In 1825 he took his family and moved with team and wagon to Allegany County, near what is now Alfred, New York. He bought timber land, built a log cabin and cleared his farm.

In 1843, he moved to spend his last days with some of his children in Pike County, Illinois where he died in September.

Comments from 2000

The Hadsell line is traced in Willard Hadsell’s book back to Norway. For those interested in learning more about this line, the research Mr. Hadsell conducted is the most thorough we know of to date.

For the purpose of this study, we will begin our first generations with Nathan, whose parents are unknown to us.

According to the information presented, Nathan married a local woman, and they had fourteen children. Barbara produced babies at the average of one per year for fourteen years. She was 46 when she died in childbirth.

Three years after her death, Nathan moved his family to Allegany County, New York, and built a log cabin for them.

Four of his sons moved to Beery County, Illinois and cleared and settled land. In 1843, Nathan moved there to spend his last days with them.