Strictly speaking, the escape velocity would decrease, but the surface gravity wouldn't necessarily change, depending on your planet's parameters. The two are determined by the mass $M$ and radius $R$ by
$$v_e=\sqrt{\frac{2GM}{R}},\qquad g=\frac{GM}{R^2}$$
with $G$ the gravitational constant. You've picked the escape velocity, but we need to know another parameter to determine the surface gravity. Picking a mass or radius would work, but I think it's better to specify a density. After all, you don't want your terrestrial planet to have the density of gas! This gives us a third formula, for the density $\rho$:
$$\rho=\frac{M}{\frac{4\pi}{3}R^3}$$
If we specify $v_e=7\;\text{km/s}$ and $\rho=5.5\;\text{g/cm}^3$, the density of Earth, we find that the radius of your planet is $R\approx0.56R_{\oplus}$ and the mass is $M\approx0.18M_{\oplus}$, leading to a surface gravity of $g=5.6\;\text{m/s}$, which is indeed lower than Earth's but still fairly reasonable! So it turns out that we didn't have to be concerned after all.
In fact, if you do out the algebra, it turns out that
$$g=v_e\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}\pi\rho G}\propto v_e\sqrt{\rho}$$
This means that you do have to change the density significantly to get a significant effect on the surface gravity, unless you're willing to change the escape velocity a bit.
Looking at some exoplanet models (Seager et al. 2008), it seems that this would be reasonable for a planet with more iron than is found in the terrestrial planets in our Solar System. There would still be quite a lot of silicates, as is the case on Earth, but you would need iron to reach the requisite density. After all, your planet is roughly the same radius as Mars but 80% more massive.
The temperature also looks fairly reasonable. You could honestly increase it a bit to make it easier for liquid water to exist, and all that would require is making its orbit slightly smaller or making its star slightly brighter. If your current temperature is about 250 K, you could raise it to 280 K (closer to Earth's temperature) by decreasing its orbital radius by about 20%.