FHB Hazen

Family History Book: Hazen

Immigrant's Story

While Edward Hazen (1614-1683) is consider the immigrant ancestor because he came to Massachusetts as an adult, an older Hazen, Sgt. Thomas Hazen, also immigrated in 1632. This Thomas was not Edward's father, though, since Edward is mentioned in his father Thomas' will in 1628, and Thomas was buried in Grasby, Lincolnshire, England on 21 May 1628. The earliest record for Edward as a landowner in Rowley, Massachusetts occurs in a survey made before 1647, when he is given 3 acres of meadow:

<quote> Certaine Diuisions of Meadow laid out in the Meadow Called Crane Meadow To Edward Hassen three Acres of meadow lying on the South east side of John Smithes meadow the northeast end abutting vpon a pond the south west end vpon the vpland </quote>

Edward was from Cadney, Lincolnshire, just west of Grasby. Both villages are near Howsham, just inland from Grimsby, which is at the mouth of the Humber on England's east coast. These places are just north of the Lincolnshire Wolds.

References

• Hazen, Tracy Elliot, The Hazen Family in America, Thomaston, CT, 1947.

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