Benjamin's occupation was Believed to have fought as a revolutionary in the Revolutionary War..
- Occupation Notes
- Possibly came to America on ship "Phoenix", Rotterdam, Netherlands via Cowes, England to Philadelphia
28 August 1750
The Hyskell family came from Germany and settled in Philadelphia, but one of its members, Benjamin, subsequently became a citizen of Dauphin County. From there he moved to Warrior’s Mark after Revolution, setting east of the village and he died in that locality in 1811, aged eighty-two years. He had sons named George and Frederick, daughters who married George Mattern of Spruce Creek, Peter Gray of Half Moon, John Stonebraker of Spruce Creek, Archibald Hutchinson of Warrior’s Mark and Elizabeth remained single. George
Hyskell, after living some time on the homestead, moved to Venango County. Frederick remained in the township until his death in 1857, at the age of eighty-four years. Of his ten children David and John moved to Indiana County, Jacob to Iowa, Thomas B. occupies the homestead. The daughters married Henry Funk, John Henderson, John Mothersbaugh, Jacob Rider, Martin Weston and Thomas Elway, all of Warrior’s Mark Township.
Benjamin Hyskell, grandfather of Thomas B. Hyskell, was born in Germany in March 1729. In early manhood emigrated with his parents to America, landing in Norfolk, Virginia, One of his brothers went to Greenbrier and bought four thousand acres of land, but never occupied it, as he was killed by the Indians. Another brother remained in Virginia, where his descendants still reside, some of them prominent men in State affairs. Benjamin remained in Virginia until after his marriage to Miss Margaret Specard, who was born in Germany in August
1748, from whence came with her parents in 1754. Their union was blessed by two sons and six daughters. About the year 1792 Benjamin came with his family to Warrior’s Mark Township, in Huntingdon (then Bedford) County, and settled on three hundred acres of land which his sons Frederick and George had previously purchased and on part of which Thomas B. Hyskell now resides.
Source: History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties Pennsylvania – 1883
Mr Benjamin Heuschkell 
Details of Benjamin's family with Mrs Margaret. Specord
