Sarah Hazen

Other Events:

• BAPM: 05 Aug 1722

Sarah married Gamaliel Reynolds on 31 Oct 1749 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. Gamaliel was born on 04 Nov 1725 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut; died on 07 May 1805 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Mercy Bradstreet in 1709 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. Mercy (daughter of John Bradstreet and Sarah Perkins) was born on 02 Jun 1689 in Topsfield, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 22 Nov 1725 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut; was buried in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Freeman: Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts
• Resided: Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
• Resided: Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts
• Military: 1675; Major Samuel Appleton's company, Narraganset campaign, King Philip's War
• Resided: 1711, Norwich, New London County, Connecticut; moved to West Farms

Notes:

He was in possession of a farm in Rowley given him by his father at thedeath of the latter. Soon after his marriage he removed to Boxford , where he was made freeman on March 22,1689/90. He was admitted to full communion in the church at Topsfield on August 28,1687. He was dismissedfrom this church, where most of the baptisms of his children are recorded, to become a constituent member of the church in Boxford on October4,1702.
The records of the town of Boxford contain many items which show his growing importance in the life of the community. "At a legal towne metinghild in Boxford the ____ day of March 1687, Thomas Radington Thomas hazan Josaph Andrus be Chosen Survaiers." On "2 July 87 the Selact men ofthis Towne of Boxford have leat the parsoneg medow to Thomas hazen anddaniel wood this presant year for Six shillings to be payed i n Coren to the Cunstabul for the Ves of the Towen." On May 21,1688, "the Town choes6 men for Selact men for ye year in sewing by a voat" of whom Thomas hazen was forth. On June 24,1689 "Corporall Thomas hazen" was second of the "Selact men" also on March 8,1691/2 and March 13,1
693/4, "Corporel Thomas hazen's" name is first among the five "seact men."
On Jan. 29,1694/5, "the Town Choes 5 men to be a commety to carey on the worck of bulding the meting hous in the Town of Boxford a Cording to thair beast discrasion," of whom Thomas hazen was oNE In Feb. 1696/7, Thomas "hazen" was chosen one of the "fenc vewars for the yer insewing." "At a Lawful town meeting hild in Boxford the Eaith of Septem 1698 the Town Choes Thomas hassen moderator." On Jan. 3,1698/9, "The Town Choes Sargent hazen moderator for the day"; also "Sargent Thomas heazen" was one of the "5 men Chosen for our Commety to carey on the meting hows." On March 12,1699/1700. "first the Town Choes E(n)sien hazen moderator for the day."
On Jan. 16,1700/1, Samuel English, an Indian, for the sum of nine pounds, gave a deed for the 12000 acres constituting the township of Boxfordto a committee of five men appointed by the town, of whom Ensign Thomashazen was oNE On Jan. 20,1700/1 "the town has voted to Choes 5 men tosettle our inhabetanc of the Town in seating our inhabitanc in our meting house a Cording to thair Sivel wrights having Regard Chefiy to Esteats yet soe as to have Respacts to ould age : the men Chosen for this servis bee as foloweth Ensien hazen Sargent bixbee Corparal Radington JohnAndrus and Jonathan foster." On March 11,1700/1 "theTown Choes williamfoster and Ensien hazen tithing men for the year. "
"At a Town meting hild in Boxford the 24 of november 1701 The Town Choes Ensien heazen moderator for the day." On March 10,1701/2 "Ensien hazen is Chosen town Trasurer for the year insewing . . . . also Ensien hazen is chos to saru on the Jury of trials this next Court to bee houldenat Ipswich." "At A law Full towen meting held in Boxford Dacember the 15: 1702 the tow(n) chos insin hazzan modarator for the day" (record of Joseph Bixby). On March 9,1702/3 "the Town Choes Ensien Thomas hazen moderator for the presant meting . . . . also the Towen have chosen 5 Selact men and thaier names be as followeth : John pebody Ensien Thomas hazen Jonathan foster Samuel Simons juenrand Timothy Dorman---also the Towen Choes Ensien Thomas hazen Towen treasurer for the yer."
On Feb. 22,1703/4 "Ensien thomas hazen" was chosen in place of Zerrubabal Endicot to whom the town of Topsfield made objection to serve on a committee to settle the bounds between the towns. On March 13,1704/5 "The Towen Choes Insien hazzen moderator for the presant meting . . . . also voted by the towen that Ensien hazen shal be Towen trasurer for the year insuing." On Feb. 26,1705/6 "also Towen Choes Ensien hazzen Sargentbixbe and Zerobebabel Endicot to vew a pees of land that John wood desirad of the towen lying in the Eastwardly corner of the pasnig farm andto mack Retorn to the towen what they did Estem s dland to bee worth."
On March 12,1705/6 "also Ensien hazzen is Choes Selact man for the yer 1706 also assesar for 1706 . . . . also Insien hazen is chosen Touen Trasurer for the year in sewing . . . . also . . . . wee haue chosen leiutpebody Ensien hazzen and John Eames to bee a Commety to meet with Topsfiles commety . . . . a bout a deuiding lien between our towens." He wasa selectman also in 1708, and
on March 1710/1 "The Town chos Leften. hazen for Town Clark" to succeedCapt. John Peabody, who had filled the office till that time.Probably it was not untill the spring of the following year that he re
moved to Norwich, CT, for his first deed there is dated March 17,1711/12 and reads "Thomas Hazzen of Boxford, MA, yeoman," bought of JOnathan Hartshorn for 200, twenty acres "on the east side of the highway that leads to Pottapouge, with a dwelling house, abutting easterly on the land of Benjamin Armstrong." He was admitted an inhabitant in Norwich Dec.21,1712. "Mr. Thomas Hazen member of ye church in Boxford" and his wifewere received into the First Church of Norwich (date omitted in the church records); in 1716 he and his sons John and Thomas were among the petitioners for the formation of the West Farms Society to accommodate the portion of the town in which they live d
and Jan. 4,1718, upon the organization of the Second Church of Norwich (now the Franklin Congregational Church, -ie c. 1945), Thomas Hazzen andMrs. Mary Hazzen were among the original members.
No record of the will of Thomas Hazen has been found, and probably he left none, for he gave each of his two older sons a farm soon after their marriage, and the following deed dated Feb. 5, 1717/18, provided for the rest of the children: "I Thomas . . . . for and in consideration of ye love goodwill and ffatherly affection which I have and do bare towards my well beloved son Jacob Hazzen of ye same Norwich afores'd Togetherwith ye Consideration of good and sufficient security by my s'd son Jacob given to me at ye signing and sealing of these presents for ye payment of Thirty pounds apiece to his seven sisters (that is to say) thirtypounds to each of them yt have had nothing, and to make up ye sum of Thirty pounds to each of them yt have had part thereof allready, and also to take care , with myselfe, to pay my just Debts during my life, andafter my death to discharge all my Just Debts, . . . . have nad do give. . . unto him my s'd son Jacob Hazzen all my farme of lands which I now live upon in ye Township of Norwich and was laid ou in four parcells, To say fourteen acres lying on ye East side of ye highway y yt leads to pottapauge with ye dwelling house upon it . . . . with twenty three acres on ye west side of ye highway opposite . . . . with twenty acres on ye east side by ye house . . . . with four acres on ye hill called mount hope." This farm descended directly to Jacob' s great-grandson, Col. Henry Hazen of Franklin. It was more recently owned (ie c. 1945) by aDriscoll family.

eleven Children, the first one born at Rowley, the others at Boxford ,MA:

Freeman:
He lived on 22 Mar 1689 at Boxford, Essex, MA; made freeman here; dismissed from the church in Topsfield to become a member of the church in Boxford in 1702.

Resided:
He lived on 22 Mar 1689 at Boxford, Essex, MA; made freeman here; dismissed from the church in Topsfield to become a member of the church in Boxford in 1702.

Military:
His name is on the roll of Major Samuel Appleton's company which servedin the Narraganset campaign in King Philip's War in 1675. he is on thelist of divers persons who were "damnified" by the burning of Major Appleton's tent at Narraganset, whose losses the court voted to repay in September 1676. As a reward for his service he was made one of the grantees of Narraganset Township No. 4 (now Greenwich, MA), the grant being confirmed about 1738-40 (Bodge, SOLDIERS OF KING PHILIP'S WAR, pp. 154, 157,426.)

Buried:
On a mound called the Old Indian Burying-ground in a field opposite thehouse is a tombstone inscribed "HERE LYES Y_e_ BODY / OF MRS MARY HAZEN/ LATWIFE TO LEUT / THOMAS HAZEN / WHO DIED OCTOR / Y_e_ 24 1727 AGED/6 3YEARS." It is said that her husband is also buried there, but no stone remains to mark his grave. It is said that some stones were taken from this place by an irresponsible Irishman for use as rabbit traps.

Thomas married Mary Howlett on 01 Jan 1683 in Bradford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Mary (daughter of T. Howlett and L. Peabody) was born about 1664 in Bradford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 24 Oct 1727 in Norwich, New London County, Connecticut; was buried in Old Indian Burial Ground, Franklin, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From record of Eugene Girdwood lists Joan, b. 16834; in. Mercy Bradstreet as daughter. Edna b. OCT 21, 1724, Joshua Smith of Norwich, Conn
. V. Thomas, bapt. Topsfield, MA, May 4, 1690; d. in Norwich, CT 1776 or 1777. Jacob, bapt. Topsfield, April 24, 1692; died in Norwich, CT, Dec 22, 1755.
Research: Birth -- IGI Film # 685 Date 1849 source Call #476926 Type Film -- this shows Thomas Hazen as Father and Mary Howlett as Mother.[Hazen21404.FTW]

Buried:
On a mound called the Old Indian Burying-ground in a field opposite thehouse is a tombstone inscribed "HERE LYES Y_e_ BODY / OF MRS MARY HAZEN/ LATWIFE TO LEUT / THOMAS HAZEN / WHO DIED OCTOR / Y_e_ 24 1727 AGED/6 3YEARS." It is said that her husband is also buried there, but no stone remains to mark his grave. It is said that some stones were taken from this place by an irresponsible Irishman for use as rabbit traps.

John married Sarah Perkins on 11 Jun 1677 in Massachusetts. Sarah was born on 02 Mar 1655 in Massachusetts; died in Apr 1745 in Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Item I give to Edward Hassen my sonne thirtie shillings to be paide as afforesaid.

(1647-1683)
Edward Hazen was born in Cadney, Lincolnshire, England where he was baptized on December 14, 1614. He was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Hazen.

"Edward Hazen who arrived in Massachusetts in 1639. He was a farmer who had assisted in building parts of the cathedral at Cadney, Lincolnshire, which was his home town in England. Soon after arrival, Edward's first wife died and he married a fellow colonist, Hannah Grant .

Their son Thomas was wounded in King Philip's War, but survived. His son Jacob married a granddaughter of Captain Cook of the Mayflower, all "Mayflower Descendants".

Jacob's son Jacob served in the Revolutionary War. "<<

We have not determined the exact date of arrival nor the ship on which Edward arrived. First mention of him is in a 1647 Rowley land transaction granting him three acres of meadow lying on the south east side of John Smiths meadow. We know he had a wife Elizabeth who died a tRowley September 18, 1649, but nothing more is known about her. He married again in March of 1650 to Hannah Grant, daughter of Thomas and Jane Grant.This couple, along with their four children, came from England in 1638.

By 1661 Edward Hazen had attained a relatively high degree of prosperity. He was also a man of influence and importance. Beginning in 1650, at a town meeting, he was chosen as one of the four overseers. This wasrepeated in 1651, 1654, 1660, 1661 & 1662. In I669 he was chosen as aselectman. He served on Trial Jury at times and was later chosen one of the four judges.

Edward died at Rowley and was buried on 22 July 1683. His widow married Lt. George Browne in 17 March 1683/84 at Haverhill. Lt. Browne adopted her youngest son, Richard Hazen. Hannah died at Haverhill in February 1715/16.

At least two of Edwards sons took part in King Philips War and many descendants served in the Revolutionary War.
Sources:
The Hazen Family in America by Tracy Elliot Hazen, Volume 1, Edited byDonald Lines Jacobus and published by Robert Hazen, M.D., 1947
Early Settlers of Rowley, MA Compiled by George B. Blodgette, A.M., 1933
Early Records of the Town of Rowley, MA 1639-1672 Volume 1, George Blodgette, A.M. 1894
New England Marriages Prior to 1700, Clarence A. Torrey

ONE of the most distinguished Loyalists who settled at Long Point was Sergt. Daniel Hazen. The grand ancestor of the American Hazens was Edward Hazen, who emigrated to MA in 1648 from Northamptonshire England. In the year following, his wife died and was buried at Rowley, a small village in that state.
In 1650 he was married to Hannah Grant, and their eldest son was Thomas, born in 1657.

The town records of Rowley, MA, prove that Edward Hazen was a man of substance and influence in his day. He was appointed Overseer or Select-man in 1650, '51, '54, '60, '65, and '69, and Judge of Delinquents in 1666. On his death, in 1683, his estate was inventoried at
The writer will trace in the family history that branch only in which the Long Point Loyalists are interested.

John, the eldest son of Thomas Hazen, married Mercy Bradstreet, the granddaughter of Governor Bradstreet. One of their sons was Daniel, while his eldest son was the Daniel Hazen who afterwards settled at Long Point. Daniel,jun., was born on the 10th of August,1755. When he was twelve years old his father removed to New Jersey, and the family became prominent in that State as formerly in MA.

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The town of Rowley was settled under the leadership of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, who arrived in Salem, MA in Dec. 1638, with about twenty families of his Yorkshire friends, "godly men, most of them of good estate." He labored, with great fidelity and eminent usefulness, for seventeen yearsin the parish of Rowley, in the southern part of Yorkshire, but at length was suspended, "for refusing to read that accursed book that allowedsports on God's holy Sabbath day, and , by it and other signs of the times , driven, with many of his hearers, into New England.
" The company spent the winter in Salem, some of them prospecting at New Haven, where they were importuned to settle. About April 1639, increased to about sixty families, they made a settlement between Ipswic handNewbury, which was incorporated Sept. 7,1639 under the name of Rowley."These people, it appears, labored together and in common, for nearly five years from the time they commenced a settlement in this place; no man owning any land in severalty from the company, until
after they had, probably cleared up the lands on each side of the brookthat runs through the central part of what is now the first parish in Rowley, and laid out the several streets as now improved." (Gege
, Hist. of Rowley, p. 122.) On Jan. 10,1643 a survey of the town was made by Mr. Thomas Nelson, Mr. Edward Carleton, Humphery Reyner, and Francis Parrot, and the location and size of each house lot (consisting usually of an acre and a half) recorded; in this register the name of Edward Hazen does not appear. The remaining undivided land was called commons, and it was agreed that every acre house lot should have "gates" orcow rights in the common pastures.
In a later survey, undated, but probably made before 1647, is found thefirst mention of our common ancestor as a land owner, probably also theearliest record of the family in America:

Certaine Diuisions of 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 To Leonard Harriman seauen Acres of meadow lying on the Southeast side of Edrward Hassens meadow pt of it bought of William Hobson and pt of John Harris the east end abutting vpon a brooke thewest end vpon the vpland ______
Vplands laid out at the plaine Called the great plaine Imp to Edward Hassen foure Acres & an halfe of vpland at the plaine Called the great plaine lying next the south ffence by the Country way the east end abutting toward the fence the west end towards other To John Smith 5 Acres ofvpland lying on the north side of Edward Hassens land abutting as aforesaid
(Rowley Records, pp. 46-48)

In a list, apparently regarding cattle about 1648, is found "Edw Hasen";
August 1650, apparently a tax list for oxen, "Edward hasen "; and a similar list slightly later, "Ed: hassen paid -----butter." "The names of those that has Calues & the number of them 1650: Ed Hasen --1 T Tenne --1 Ri Swan --2." (Ibid. pp. 53, 59 - 61.)

In accordance with an order made in the year 1650, the fences of the common fields of the town of Rowley divided according to the proportion of land held by individual proprietors, and a number was asigned to eachmans portion; the comparative length of fence to be maintained by Edward Hazen and some of his neighbors who became ancestors of many Hazen descendants is of interest as indicating their relative holdings at thistime: "the hundred and forty Rod of feild fence which they who have gatsin the ox pastur are to make and mainetaine its thus numbered as followeth
VI frances Parrat six rale Length
VII Mr Shewell Twelue rale Length
VIII William Asee six rale Lengths
VIIII Mr Carlton six Rale Lengths
X Thomas Teney six rale Length
XI Thomas Crosbee six rale Length
XII John Smith six rale Length
XIII Richard Swane nine rale Length
XIIII Edward hasen three Rale Length
XV Mr Ezekiell Rogers nineteene rale Lengths
XVI
XVII
XVIII Mr Thomas Nellson Thirty one rale Length

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The fence between the ox pasture and the medow which is a two Rale fence at further sid of the ox pasture to y_e_ mill ward thos are the seuerall preportions as followeth euery ox gate Two rale lengths and euer aker of medow foure and a halfe ---

II frances Parrat foure rale Lengths ------
XVI Mr Ezekiell Rogers twelue rail Length
XVII Edward Hasen Two rale Length
XVIII John Smith foure rale Lengths
XVIIII John Pearson eighteene rale Lengths
XX Mr Edward Carlton Thirty rale Lengths
XXI Robert Swane foure rale Length & halfe and Richard Swane seuenteeneand half of length
XXII William Boynton nine rale Lengths
XXIII Will Teny and Thomas Teny nine Lengths"

There were others with small holdings, but Edward Hazen's proportion incomparison with those listed above was even less than appears, since their names are on another list from which his is absent. (Rowley Records, pp. 61-4.)
"At a generall and legall towne meeting held the same tyme (May 5,1659)It was granted that Richard Swan and John Lambert should view and lay out a certaine percell of land as they shall see cause vnto Edward HazenJoyneing to his owne land in the Common feild nere Cowbridge." (Ibid. p.103.)
By Feb. 4,1661 Edward Hazen had attained a relatively high degree of prosperity, as shown in "A Survay of The Seuerall Gates or Commonages belonging unto The seuerall Inhabbitants of The Towne of Rowley as They are Now in possesion haueing Been Transfered and Sould from one To a
nother since the Begining of Said Towne-----

To Edward Hassen his halfe two acre lot that he purchased of John Smithtwo gates and one quarter 2 one quarter purchased of John Tod one gate1Gate purchased of the towne one and of Thomas Crosbie one 2 gates purchased of Thomas Nelson one and one that he had of the towne for land helaid downe---- 2 gates"

This total of seven and one quarter gates, or cattle rights, appears tohave been surpassed only by Elizabeth Tenney alias Parratt and two or three others, and the average number was about three gates to a proprietor. (Ibid. p.120.)
Surveys in 1662: "To Edward Hassen as his first devission of land threeacres and one hundred Rod be it more or less on the south side of Richard hollmes land the west end buting against William tenneys land the east end against the common. To Edward Hasen three acres and one hundredRod lieing on the south side of Mark Prime's land." (Gage, Hist .of Rowley, pp. 143,4.)
In 1667 Hog Island marshes were laid out, and Edward Hazen received a share. On April 16,1688, "the town passed an order, directing the thown brook to be cleaned out, three feet wide and two feet deep, an dso kept;Beginning at Jonathan Jackson's land on Bradford Street, and so throughJackin Reyner's land downward, till the brooks meet, and thence downward till the brook enters Satchwell's meadow; and from Edward Hazen's bridge in his swamp (Town's End bridge) downward to the other brook ----"(Ibid. p 144)
In the political life of the town also, the Rowley records show that Edward Hazen was a man of influence and importance.On Jan 3,1650, at a town meeting, Edward Hazen was chosen as one of four overseers, and was again chosen to this office Dec 19,1651 and Dec. 12,1654. He was also overseer for the years 1660, 1661 and 1662, and was selectman for the year 1669. These overseers were not the same as selectmen, but were alwaysnamed after and in addition to the selectmen , or "prudentiall men," and in 1649 are described as "ouerseers for the execution of towne ordersand Hy wayes." On Jan. 10,1669/70, Thomas Tene and Edward Hasne were chosen ouerseers for vuiin fences and hywayes and vuiin Chimneys." Amongthe "Towne Charges for the year past 1651: for John Smith for going toCourt 0-4-6: alsoe for Edward Hasen the lyke work 0-3-6." "Town charges 1665 : Edward hasen a Day Jury Man." The Ipswich Court Records and Filesshow that Ed. Hassen served on Trial Jury J
uly 30,1651 and also July 26,1654. On Jan. 9,1665/6, Edward Hazon was chosen one of four judges of delinquents "for not comeing to towne meetings"; Jan. 9,1666/7, "Edward hasen Judge for the yeare ensuing . "In a list of (of town charges?) 1662: "Ed hason 0-10-2." Towne charges 1667: "Edward Hazon for ueiwinge fences 0-3-0." In an undated record probably referring to King Philip's War and to Edward Hazen's sons :
"Work done for Samuel person in Y_e_ war -- James Tenny 1 day: Thomas Hasen and Edward each a day."
(Early Records of the Town of Rowley (1894), pp. 70, 71, 173, 91, 106
, 118, 132, 146, 159, 162, 165, 185, 200, 205, 224; Quarterly Courts o
f Essex County, 1: 232,362.)

In the following account of the settlement of Edward Hazen's estate is taken from the original papers (by Hazen (1947)), in two sheets, on fileat Salem, and differ's somewhat from the clerk's book copy.

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An Inventory of the Estate of Edw. Hazen of Rowley who Deceased 22 of July: 1683.
li s d
Impr. Apparrell & linnen -- 008-10-00
It: Mony -- 002-02-00
IT: 1 dwelling house barne & other building wth house Lott orchard &c: one Acre & half -- 050-00-00
It: two Acres of pasture Land & swamp Joyneing to the homestead: -- 006-00-00
It: 1 Acre & _ of planting Land westward of pasture and Swamp.-- 004-00-00
It: 7 acres of Land and upland Inclosed in the feild. Symons Feild.- -014-00-00
It: 3 acres of upland in the comon feild Joyneing to the oxe pasture--009-00-00
It: 2 acres _ lying in the Comon feild on the East side of theoxe pasture-- 008-00-00
It: 6 acres of salt marsh: Joyneing upon the Oxe pasture in thecomon feild-- 024-00-00
It: 3 acers of marsh called cow bridg marsh:-- 012-00-00
It: 1 acre of Rull marsh neer Newberry Gate.-- 003-00-00
It: 1 acer of Salt marsh at hog Island.-- 003-00-00
It: 3 Oxe Gattes in the East & Ox passture: 030-00-00
It: 1 acre & halfe of Land at Ry plaine-- 001-00-00
It: 4 acres & _ of fresh Meadow at the place called [ ] 008-00-00
It: 10 Acres of swamp Land or thereabout in the Great Swamp.-- 015-00-00
It: about 23 Acres of Land to be Layd out upon the Comon in after deuissons. 012-00-00
It: 60 Acres of upland Lying in the bounds of Bradford 040-00-00
It: 1 pr of Fatt Oxen 12li & 1pr of working oxen: 10li 022-00-00
It: 1 pr of 3 yr old steares: 6_li_ & 1pr of 1yr old steares: 4_li_ 10-00-00
It: 1 pr yearling steares 2_li_. 10_s_ 1 heifer of 1 y old: 25_s_ 03-15-00
It: 5 cowes: 17_li_: 1 heifer of 2 yr old: 2_li_.-- 19-00-00
It: 2 calues: 01-05-00
It: 2 mares & 1 young Coult-- 03-10-0
It: 6 sheep: 2_li_. 8_s_. 0: 6 swine: & 5 pigs.-- 09-00-00
It: about 8 bushl of wheat in the barNE 002-00-0
It: about 10 bushls of Ry: in the barNE-- 002-00-0
It. about 6 bushls of barley & oats in the barne 001-06-0
It. about 55 bushls of Indian Corne upon the Ground. 08-05-0
It. an old cart, sled, harrow, 2 plows, i cheine, 2 yoaks & bolt & shakl. 2-12-0
It. 2 old sithes. Rings for beetl & 2 wedges. 2 Tramils. spit. tongs & sli e. 0-17-01
It. friing pan & warming pan & hoes 0-07-6
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335-09-6

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It: 3 old axes: a peire fettar a chafin dish & skillet frame-- 0-07-00
It: 4 brass kettles & 2 skillets-- 2 Iron potts & 2pr . pot hooks-- 3-05-00
It: 3 pailes. 3 Keelars: Traies & wooden dishes. churne & chees fatts& trenchars-- 0-17-00
It: peuter. & 1 brass candlestick-- 2-10-00
It: earthenware & old chamber pot-- 0-04-00
It: Tables stooles & Formes & chaires & cushins-- 2-00-00
It: beding in the parlor-- 8-15-00
It: beding in the parlour chamber-- 4-15-00
It: siues: kneading trow: 2 measures & a Sickle-- 0-09-06
It: The Feather w_th_ the beding & beadstead in the roome ouer the cellar-- 7-00-00
It: The straw-bed & beding & bed stead in the same room-- 2-05-00
It: 1 chest.-- & a chest of drawers-- 3-08-00
It: a bearing blanket. 2 pr cards. 2 glasses a spindle & pr sheers 0-11-06
It: Six barrells. sydar press & trow & buckett. 1-00-00
It: 1 bowl: 1_s_: Tow. Yarne 7_s_-- 1 firkin & 1_ ferkin-- 0-10-03
It: 1 cubboard: & tub: 0-06-06
It: 2 smale Table Clothes-- 0-02-00
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38-14-09
on the other side--- 335-09-06
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374-04-03
It: _ li of pine boards and nailes-- 000-03-06
It: about 140 acers of upland & 9 Acres of meadow== which his son Thomas was possessed in his life time which was given to him by his Father concerne which we find noe legall conveyance The inventory of s'd estatewas taken by us (as it is apprized whose names are subscribed. this 24th. Sep_t_. 1683.
Nehemiah Jewett
Joseph Boynton
John Laighton

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Debts due from the estate to pticuler psons. viz_t_.
li s d
To Deacon Goodhue-- 9-00-00
To Mr . Jn_o_. Wainwright-- 2-10-00
To Jn_o_. Stainford-- 1-15-00
To Deacon Knowlton-- 0-08-00
To Caleb Boynton smith-- 0-07-09
To Jn_o_. Leighton-- 0-06-06
To Jn_o_. Trumble-- 0-05-00
To Nath_l_. Rust-- 0-08-00
TO Abell Platts-- 0-10-00
To Mr . Jolliffe in mony--8_li_ 13-00-00
To Jn_o_. Pearson senr . mony 11 s 0-16-00
To Jn_o_. Pearson sen_o_. 0-08-00
TO Tho_ss_. Leaver senr . 0-04-04
TO Ezek_l_. Leighton-- 0-05-00
TO Mr . Paison-- 1-05-00
To Jn_o_. Bayley. 7_s_. 6_d_ mony-- 0-10-00
To widow Scott-- 2-00-00
To Jn_o_. Harris of Ipsw_ch_. 0-07-00
To Joseph Scott-- 1-10-00
To Edw_rd_. Dear-- 0-04-00
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36-09-07

Hannah Hazzen Relect of Edw_d_, Hazzen The names of the Children of & Edw_d_. Hazzen son to y_e_ s'd Hazzen: the deceased made oath y_e_ abovewritten y_t_ tis a Elizabeth Harris. hath Rec_d_
. 29_li_. 3s
true Inventory of y_e_ estate of y_e_ sd Thomas Hazzen . hath Rec_d_ .
a Farme Hazzen deceased to the best of there Edward Hazzen. knowledge if mor . come to knowledge Iszabell: Wood. hath Rec_d_. 24.4.10
will give acct thereof-- Prissila: Pearson. hath Rec_d_. 21.14.4
Ipsw. Court 25 Sept. 83/ Ednah: Haszen attests Jn_o_ Appleton cler. Richard: Haszen Hephzibah: Hassen Sarah Haszen Hannah; Gibson deceased (3 children liueing) hath reciued. 15.18.0
record_d_. March 12, 1683/4 in Ipswich record in the book of wills & Inventory fol (6) p me John Appleton recordr

[page 4] Ipswich Court. Sept : 25 : 83
Administration is by this Court granted to Hannah y_e_ Relict of EdwardHazzen senr & to Edward Hazen y_e_ son of Edward, to y_e_ deceased Edward Hazzens estate, & it is ordered that they shall attend to such orders for y_e_ settlement of y_e_ sd: estate as this Court shall make: & that they in their administration so proceed & act according to law. Edward Hazzen the son of Edward, and Hannah Y_e_ Relict of Edward Hazzen dostand bound to the County in the bond of 600_li_: The condition of this obligation is y_t_ they do administr . according to Law as is above expressed-- in the administration granted--

Attestes John Appleton Cleric_s_

[on a separate sheet] li s d
Clear Estate 334: 07: 09
The same 070: 00: 00
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404: 07: 09
Thirds 128: 02: 07
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Rests to divide The sum of == 276: 05: 2
Estate with what the children hath received 092: 00: 2
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368: 05: 4
Allowing the ten children an equall share & the eldest double portion: being 11 shares equall wee allow 33_li_-10_s_-0_d_ altho it want a smalematter in the whole:
Paid Jn. & Iszabell Wood. 33.10.0
" Nath_l_. & Elizabeth Harris 33.10.0
" Jeremiah & Prissilla Pearson 33.10.0
Thomas Hazzen y_e_ farme. 70.00.0 ouer his share
William Gibson haveing == Rstd 15.18.8
Res_t_. short of a share 17.11.4
Edward Hazzen is administr 33.10.0
Ednah Haszen
Richard Haszen
Hephsiba Haszen
Sarah Haszen

Edward Hazen and his wife Hannah appear in the following deeds:

Peter Eyers and his wife Hannah of Haverhill convey to Edward Hazen of Rowley 6_ acres of upland, Peter Eyers' 3d division, with land abutting the Merrimack River, (date not given). Witnesses Jno. Carlton, Jno. Gryffyn. (Old Norfolk Co. Deeds, 3: 336, p. 367 in copy.)

Edward Hazen and wife Hannah of Rowley convey to John Tennie of Rowley 100 acres in the division called "Merimake land," the northwest and abutting on the Merrimack River, and 4 acres of meadow called Crane meadow:also a parcel of land granted to John Harris, John Tod, Richard Longhorne, Richard Holmes, and Edward Hassen by the town of Rowley, dated May20,1664. Witnesses, Ezekiell Jewit, Thomas Tenny. The name is signed "Hasin." Edward acknowledged June 16,1673. (Ipswich Deeds
, 4: 41.)

John Pearly and wife Mary of Newbury convey to Edward Hazen of Rowley
7 acres of upland in Rowley Village--land of Thomas Pearly, Daniel Wood, and Ezekiel Northern mentioned, (date not given in copy). Witnesses, Benjamin Rolfe, Thomas Hale. John and Mary acknowledged on Feb. 19,1684 and she resigned her right of dower to Edward Hazen's administra
tors. (Ibid. 5: 371.)

"Hannah ye Relict and late wife of said Edward Hason deceased & Edward Hason son of ye said Edward Hason Joynt administators" confirm to ThomasHason land in Rowley Village where he now lives and which his father Edward before his death settled upon him as his portion-- land bought ofJohn Pearly of Rowley Village and on Feb. 19,1684 acknowledged by him ,dated May 14,1685. NO witnesses. Signed "Hannah Hazzen alias BrowNE" Hannah acknowledged May 19,1685, Edward Nov. 4,1685. (Ibid .
5: 371.)

Hannah Browneof Haverhill, widow and relict of Capt. George BrowNE "for& in consideration of natural & christian afection which I beare unto my loving & beloved sonns Thomas & Edward w_ch_ I had by my former Husband Edward Hazen long time deceased of Rowley." conveys to the mall the interest in the estate of her brother John Grant of Rowley, dec'd; March1,1699 or 1700. Witnesses, Thomas Eaton, Senr. and Richard Saltonsall.(Essex Co. Deeds, 14: 37.)

Capt. George Browne and wife Hannah of Haverhill convey to Thomas Carlton of Bradford 76 acres laid out to her former husband Edward Hazzen ofRowley, dec'd, and her part of the estate of Edward Hazzen in Bradford---widow Smith, widow Hobson mentioned, April 3,1697. Witnesses ,AbrahamPerkins, Solomon Reves, Senr., Jacob Perkins, 3d. Acknowledged Dec. 3,1698. (Ibid. 30: 44,45.)

Richard Hazzen, Thomas Hazzen, Edward Hazzen, Daniel Wicom, Junr., Nathaniel Storey, children of Edward Hazzen and Hannah, now wife of Capt. George Browne, quitclaim to Thomas Carlton, April 3,1697. Witnesses, Edward Carlton, Nath. Walker, Solomon Keyes, Senr., Jacob Perkins, tertius. (Ibid. 30: 45.)

An agreement concerning some land that was their father Edward Hazen's and that after his death was laid out to his wife for her thirds, was made by Thomas Hazen of Norwich, John Wood of Bradford, Timothy Perkins of Topsfield, Edward Hazen of Boxford, Richard Hazen of Haverhill; firstthat Edward Hazzen is satisfied with 16 already received, one ox gatein the east end of the ox pasture, and 5 which his brothers promise to pay: secondly that the others are satisfied with a piece of marsh, called cowbridge marsh, and a piece of land called cowbridge lot, and another piece of land in Symond's new field from their mothers thirds, takingin brother Jeremy Person, brother Harris' children, brother Gibson's children, and brother Wicom's children, they having their share with theothers; dated June 20,1716. Witnesses, Thomas Perley, Junr., NathanielPerley. (Ibid. 34: 189.)

On July 4,1678 a "Hannah Hazen" was a witness to the will of Ann Swan, relict of Richard Swan of Rowley. (Essex Co. probate files, Docket 26876.) It is highly probable that she was the wife of Edward Hazen, as his daughter Hannah was presumably married before this date.

Edward married Hannah Grant. Hannah (daughter of Thomas Grant and Jane Hannah Haburne) was born on 16 Nov 1631 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England; died on 25 Nov 1698 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

THE ANCESTRY OF HANNAH (GRANT) HAZEN

Edwards Hazen's wife, Hannah Grant, the mother of the American Hazens, derived from the parish of Cottingham in Yorkshire, England. It has longbeen known that she was a daughter of Thomas and Jame Grant of Rowley,MA Her ancestry has been traced by the author Tracy Elliott Hazen to allfour grandparents, and to one great-grandfather.
Although the maiden name of Mrs. Hannah Hazen does not appear in her marriage record, in accordance with the practice of the town clerk for that year, nevertheless her family history is known from an affidavit filed in the Essex County Probate Court in the settlement of the estate ofher brother John Grant, who died at Rowley, 18 Mar. 1696/97; "I Sam Stickney Sr of Bradford do testifie and say That I came over from Englandto New England in the same ship wth Thomas Grant and Jame Grant his Wife, who brought over wth them Foure Children, by name John, Hannah, Frances and Ann, whome I was well acquainted with, and next or near neighbours unto in Rowley. And ye said John being deceased, I do affirm that the sisters of John Grant above named, now by marriage knowne by he namesof Hannah Browne, Frances Keyes, and Ann Emerson, are ye same yt cameover sth their Father and Mother, and by them owned wth said John for their children." Sworn to 20 July 1698. [Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., 21:99.]
Thomas and Jame Grant came from England in 1638. No record of their death is known, but as Widow Jane Grant she had a house lot on Bradford Street, Rowley, in 1643, and was taxed for two cows in 1653. Of their four children, John died without issue; Frances married, at Newbury, MA, 2OCT 1653, Solomon Keyes of Newbury, soon of Chelmsford, MA; and Ann married, at Rowley, 4 Jan 1658, Robert Emerson of Haverhill.
The town of Rowley was settled under the leadership of Rev. Ezekiel Rogers, who arrived in Salem, MA, in December, 1638, with about twenty families of his Yorkshire friends, "godly men, and most of them of good estate." He had labored, with great fidelity and eminent usefulness, for seventeen years in the parish of Rowley, in the southern part of Yorkshire, but at length was suspended, "for refusing to read that accursed book that allowed sports on God's holy Sabbath, or Lord's day, and, by itand other signs of the times, driven, with many of his hearers, into New England." The company spent the winter in Salem, some of them prospecting at New Haven, where they were importuned to settle. About April, 1639, increased to about sixty families, they made a settlement between Ipswich and Newbury, which was incorporated 7 Sept. 1639 under the name of Rowley. "These people it appears, labored together and in common, fornearly five years from the time they commenced a settlement in this place; no man owning any land in severalty from the company, until after they had, probably, cleared up the lands on each side of the brook that runs through the central part of what is now the first parish in Rowley,and laid out the several streets as now improved." [Gage, Hist. of Rowley, p. 122.] On 10 Jan. 1643, a survey of the town was made by Mr. Thomas Nelson, Mr. Edward Carleton, Humphrey Reyner, and Francis Parrot, and the location and size of each house lot (consisting usually of an acre and a half) recorded; in this register the name of Edward Hazen doesnot appear. The remaining undivided land was called commons, and it was agreed that every 1 1/2 acre house lot should have 1 1/2 "gates" or cow rights in the common pastures.
In a later survey, undated, but probably made before 1647, is found thefirst mention of our common ancestor as a land owner, probably also theearliest record of the family in America:
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 upon a pond the south west end upon the upland.
To Leonard Harriman seauen Acres of meadow lying on the Southeast side of Edward Hassens meadow pt of it bought of William Hobson and pt of John Harris the east end abutting upon a brooke the west end upon the upland ---
Uplands laid out at the plaine Called the Great plaine Imp to Edward Hassen foure Acres & an halfe of upland at the plaine Called the great plaine lying next the south ffence by the Country way the east end abutting toward the fence the west end towards other.
To John Smith 5 Acres of upland lying on the north side of Edward Hassens land abutting as aforesaid.
To Thomas Tenny two Acres & and halfe of land lying on the north side of John Smithes land abutting as aforesaid.
To William Tenny two Acres of land lying on the north side of Thomas Tennyes land abutting as aforesaid [Rowley Records, pp. 46-48.]
In a list, apparently regarding cattle about 1648, is found "Edw Hasen 2"; August 1650, apparently a tax list for oxen, "Edward hasen 2"; and asimilar list slightly later, "Ed;hassen paid - butter." "The names of those that has Calues & the number of them 1650: Ed Hasen - 1 T Tenne-1 Ri Swan-2." [ibid., pp. 53, 59, 60, 61.]
In accordance with an order made in the year 1650, the fences of the common fields of the town of Rowley were divided according to the proportion of land held by individual proprietors, and a number was assigned to each man's portion; the comparative length of the fence to be maintained by Edward Hazen and some of his neighbors who became ancestors of many Hazen descendants is of interest as indicating their relative holdings at this time: "the hundred and fort Rod of the feild fence which they who have gats in the ox pastur are to make and mainetaine its thus numbered as followeth
VIfrances Parrat six rale Length
VIIMr Shewell Twelue rale Length
VIIIWilliam Asee six rale Lengths
VIIIMr Carlton six Rale Lengths
XThomas Teney six rale Length
XIThomas Crosbee six rale Length
XIIRichard Swane nine rale Length
XIIIIEdward hasen three Rale Length
XVMr Ezekiell Rogers nineteene rale Lengths
XVIIIMr Thomas Nellson Thirty one rale Lengths
The fence between the ox lpasture and the medow which is a two Rale fence at further sid of the ox pasture to ye mill ward thos are the seuerall proportions as folleth euery ox gate Two rale lengths and euer aker of medow foure and a half--
IIfrances Parrat foure rale Lengths
XVIMr Ezekiell Rogers twelue rail Length
XVIIEdward Hasen Twol rale Lengths
XVIIIJohn Smith foure rale Lengths
XVIIIIJohn Pearson eighteen rale Lengths
XXMr Edward Carlton Thirty rale Lengths
XXIRobert Swane foure rale Length & halfe and Richard Swane suenteene and half of length
XXIIWilliam Boynton nine rale Lengths
XXIIIWill Teny and Thomas Teny nine Lengths
There were others with small holdings, but Edward Hazen's proportion incomparison with those listed above was even less then appears, since their names are on another list from which his is absent. [Rowley Records, pp.61-4.]
"At a generall and legall towne meeting held the same tyme [5 May 1659]It was granted that Richard Swan and John Lambert should view and lay out a certaine percell of land as they shall see cause unto Edward HazenJoyneing to his owne land in the Common feild nere Cowbridge."[Ibid., p. 103.]
By 4 Feb. 1661 Edward Hazen had attained a relatively high degree of prosperity, as shown in "A Survay of The Seuerall Gates or Commonages belonging unto The seuerall Inhabbitants of The Towne of Rowley as They are Now in possession haueing Been Transfered and Sould from one To another since the Begining of the Said Towne--
To Edward Hassen his halfe two acre lot that he purchased of John Smithtwo gates and one quarter
purchased of John Tod one gate
purchased of the towne one and of Thomas Crosbie one 2 gates
purched of Thomas Nelson one and one that he had of the towne for land he laid downe -- 2 gates
This total os seven and one quarter gates, or cattle rights, appears tohave been surpassed only by Elizabeth Tenney alias Parratt and two or three others, the average number was about three gates to a proprietor. [Ibid., p. 120.]
Surveys in 1662: "To Edward Hassen as his first devission of land threeacres and one hundred Rod be it more or less lieing on the south side of Richard hollmes land the west end buting against William tennys land the east against the common. To Edward Hasen three acres and one hundredRod lieing on the south side of Mark Prime's land." {Gage, Hist. of Rowley, pp. 143, 144.]
In 1667 Hog Island marshes were divided and laid out, and Edward Hazen received a share. On 16 Apr. 1688, "the town passed an order, directing the town brook to be cleared out, three feet wide and two feet deep, andso kept: Beginning at Jonathan Jackson's land on Bradford Street, and so through Jachin Reyner's land downward, till the brooks meet, and thence downward till the brook enters Satchwell;s meadow; and from Edward Hazen's bridge in his swamp [Town's End bridge] downward to the other brook-" [Ibid., p 144.]
Baptism: October 16, 1631, Cottingham, Yorkshire, England[Hazen21404.FTW]

T. married L. Peabody. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Secretary of the United Colonies of New England
• Occupation: Steward to Countess of Warwick
• Education: Between 1621 and 1624; Cambridge University
• Immigration: 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony; with Winthrop Fleet
• Occupation: 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony; assistant Judge of Court
• Resided: 1631, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; founded Cambridge with his father-in-law
• Occupation: 1661, England; envoy from MA to congratulate Charles II on the restoration to the throne
• Occupation: Between 1673 and 1679, Massachusetts; Deputy Governor of Massachusetts
• Occupation: Between 1679 and 1686, Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts
• Occupation: Between 1689 and 1692, Massachusetts; Governor of Massachusetts

Notes:

He was in service of the Massachusetts colony for 62 years.

Born in Lincolnshire, England, Bradstreet married Anne Dudley, the daughter of Thomas Dudley, the Puritan leader, in 1628. Two years later the three of them emigrated to North America. In 1634 John Winthrop, the governor of MA Colony, sent Bradstreet to the colonies of Plymouth, New Haven and CT to negotiate the formation of the New England Confederation. After the restoration of the monarchy, Bradstreet traveled to England and successfully persuaded King Charles II to confirm the colony's charter.

Her husband, Simon (1603-1697), was a colonial administrator and governor of MA (1679-1686 and 1689-1692)..

Descendants
* Herbert Hoover
* David Souter
* Robert Edwin Seamount
* Benjamin Wade
* Wendell Phillips
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
* William Ellery Channing
* Richard Henry Dana, Sr.
* Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
* Elisha Williams
* Elliot Richardson
* Emily Dow Partridge, a wife of Joseph Smith, Jr. and Brigham Young

Immigration:
Sailed with the Winthrop Fleet, 1630

Occupation:
chosen assistant Judge of Court of Colony on MA Bay prior to departure of colonist from England under Winthrop in 1630

Occupation:
the last Governor under the original charter

Simon married Anne Dudley in 1628 in Northampton, England. Anne (daughter of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy Yorke) was born on 20 Mar 1612 in Northampton, Northhamptonshire, England; died on 16 Sep 1672 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; was buried in Old Burying Ground, Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Occupation: Poet
• Immigration: 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony; in the Winthrop Fleet

Notes:

His wife, Anne Bradstreet, was America's first published poet.
Ann Dudley was considered the first poet of New England. Bradstreet, Anne Dudley 1612-1672 English-born colonial poet who wrote several collections of verse, including The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650).

Bradstreet, Anne (Dudley), c.1612-1672, American poet; b. Northampton, England; came to MA with her father and husband, both later governors of the colony. The first important woman author in America, she is known for poems that, while derivative and formal, are often realistic and genuine Her volumes of verse include The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America (1650) and Several Poems (1678).

Occupation:
Anne Dudley Bradstreet

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue,
Who sayes, my hand a needle better fits,
A Poets Pen, all scorne, I should thus wrong;
For such despighte they cast on female wits:
If what I doe prove well, it wo'nt advance,
They'l say its stolen, or else, it was by chance. - Bradstreet

Anne Dudley Bradstreet was America's first poet. Born about 1612 in Northampton, England, Anne was the first daughter and second of the five children of Thomas Dudley and Dorothy (Yorke) Dudley, who was, by CottonMather's account, "a gentlewoman whose extraction and estate were considerable." Her parents' marriage record was found in the Parish Registerat Hardingstone, near Northampton, England: "Marriages Anno Dni 1606 -Thomas Dudley & Dorothy York married the 25th of April, 1603" (NEHGR 56:206 Notes and Queries).

Anne's childhood was spent in comparative luxury at Tattershall Castle in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where her father was the chief steward of the vast estates of Theophilus Clinton, the Puritan Earl of Lincoln. Herupbringing was largely influenced by her father's position. She had private tutors, access to the Earl's library, the enouragement of a literate father who loved history, and a strict religious indoctrination.

Her young life was often interrupted by illness; she was bedridden withrheumatic fever and as an adolescent she almost died from smallpox. Shortly after recovering, Anne, aged 16, married Simon Bradstreet in 1628.Simon was a prot©bg©b of the Earl's, nine years her senior, the son ofa Nonconformist minister and a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1630 Anne accompanied him and her parents to America. They were members of John Winthrop's party, the first settlers on MA Bay and they sailed on the flagship, Arbella. The party arrived "in June at the half-dying, famine-ridden frontier village of Salem, after a journey of 3 month of close quarter, raw nerves, sickness, hysteria and salt meats," wrote AnNE At first dismayed by the rude life of the settlement, she soon reconciled herself to it. "I changed my condition and was marryed, and came into this country, where I found a new world and new manners, atwhich my heart rose. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, Isubmitted to it and joined to the church at Boston."

Anne's father, Thomas Dudley became deputy governer of the MA Bay Company. He was a magistrate at the trial of Anne Hutchinson, the other, heretical, Anne, who threatened the foundations of the colony and "gloried" in her excommunication. Simon Bradstreet was an assistant and later twice governor of the colony. The official standing of her father and husband gave Anne a place of dignity and honor in the New World. After a brief residence in Cambridge, the family moved to Ipswich and after 1644to North Andover, her home for the remainder of her life.

It was a humiliation to this eighteen-year-old wife that she did not atonce become a mother. "It pleased God to keep me a long time without achild, which was a great grief to me." Her first son, Samuel, was bornatNewtowne (Cambridge) in 1633/4, just before moving to Ipswich, and he proved to be the first of eight children. The others were Dorothy, Sarah, Simon, Jr., Dudley, Hannah, John and Mercy.

Admidst her social obligations, Anne found time to write poetry. By herown admission, she began her verse-making almost accidentally. Her poems were written for her own satisfaction. As was customary of the time,her poems were circulated among family and friends in the new colony. She greatly admired the leading French calvinist poet Du Bartas and her early verse shows his influence upon her.

Anne's brother-in-law, the Rev. John Woodbridge, who had secured a manuscript copy comprised of fifteen poems, caused them to be printed in England under the title, The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America, Or Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full ofdelight ... By a Gentlewoman in those parts. This appears to have occurred without her knowledge or consent. All of the poems in this collection were written before her thirtieth year, somewhere between 1630-1642,imitating Du Bartas. Her early work was conventional, dull, and easilyforgotten. No one of the long poems in The Tenth Muse would be read today by anyone save a literay historian. The often wooden lines and forced rhymes of her early poems reveal Bradstreet's grim determination toprove that she could write in the lofty style of the established male poets, but her deeper emotions are obviously not engaged in the projeCT

Seeing The Tenth Muse in print completely cured Anne of writing imitative poetry. In 1678 an American edition of The Tenth Muse appeared underthe new title Several Poems Compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning and included some of her later work, which became her chief claimto attention. The first satisfactory edition of her work was edited byJohn Harvey Ellis in 1867. It is clear that this edition contains the poet's own corrections, made because she was dissatisfied the The Tenth Muse. These later poems show that she had not only learned to see natureand human life directly, but also to look into her own heart and writewith the imagination vision of a poet. Much of her later work was rooted in her actual experience as a wife, as a mother, and a woman in seventeenth-century New England. It concerned her personal reflections, andthe warmth and frank humanity that pervaded them struck a welcome contrast to the Puritan stereotype.

As a Puritan woman of the seventeenth-century, Anne Bradstreet struggled to write poetry in a society that was hostile to imagination. Women were expected to behave deferentially and neither her education nor her privileged status as the child of one colonial governor and wife of another could protect her against the scorn and persecution visited upon women who stepped beyond their role in Puritan society. Anne often appears self-deprecating in order to appease the critical males, describing her work as lowly, meanly clad, poor, ragged, foolish, broken, and blemished.

In the Prologue of The Tenth Muse, Anne makes a very modest claim for the attention she and all women deserve:

Let Greeks be Greeks, and Women what they are,
Men have precedency, and still excell,
It is but vaine, unjustly to wage war,
Men can doe best, and Women know it well;
Preheminence in each, and all is yours,
Yet grant some small acknowledgement of ours.

In start contrast, however, is her bold declaration of female abilitiesin Happy Memory of Queen Elizabeth, the only poem in The Tenth Muse which is not apologetic, but which would have been dangerous had Anne proclaimed the worth of her own work in such a manner.

Who was so good, so just, so learn'd, so wise,
From all the Kings on earth she won the prize;
Nor say I more then duly is her due,
Millions will testifie that this is true.
She hath wip'd off th' aspersion of her Sex,
That woman wisdome lack to play the Rex.

Overall, the poetry of Anne Bradstreet is without a trace of romanticism or sentimentalism. Her art was not an escape from life, but an expression of it. She could express a tender sentiment without being sentimental. This appears best in her poem on the burning of her home at Andover in 1666 and her feelings as she passed the blackened ruins of the house.

When by the ruins oft I passed
My sorrowing eyes aside did cast,
And here and there the places spy
Where oft I say, and long did lie.

Here stood that trunk, and there that chest;
There lay the store I counted best;
My pleasant things in ashes lie,
And them behold no more shall I.
Under thy roof no guest shall sit,
Nor at thy table eat a bit.

No pleasant tale e'er be told,
Nor things recounted done of old.
No candle e'er shall shine in thee,
Nor bridegroom's voice e'er heard shall be.
In silence ever shalt thou lie;
Adieu, Adieu, all's vanity.

Anne's prose "Meditations Divine and Moral," written for her son Simon,were found after her death along with many unpublished poems written toher children. It is likely that other unpublished works were destroyedin the fire that consumed her North Andover home in 1666. Anne DudleyBradstreet died on September 16, 1672, in North Andover, MA of consumption or tuberculosis. No potrait survives and her burial place is not known. She may be buried in the old Burying Ground at North Andover or in her father's tomb at Roxbury, MA.

It is questionable if Anne Bradstreet influenced other poets, but many have paid homage to her. It has been said that Anne's genius was reincarnated in Emily Dickinson. Numbered among her illustrious descendants are Richard Henry Dana, William Ellery Channing, Wendell Phillips, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.