Jane Watson

Jane married John Grant on 22 Jul 1593. John was born about 1568 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England; died on 15 Jul 1610 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Bef Jan 1639, Essex County, Massachusetts

Notes:

Thomas Grant and Jane Haburne had six children born at Cottingham, fourof whom survived. The family left England not long after the baptism of the youngest child in December, 1637, for they were in New England before January, 1639. We know this because at that date William Stickneywas admitted into the First Church of Boston, and in 1698 Samuel Stickney of Bradford, MA, son of William, deposed that he "came over from England to New England in the same ship with Thomas Grand & Jane Grant hiswife, who brought wth them Foure Children, by name John, Hannah, Frances, & Ann ....And ye said John being deceased, I do affirm that the Sisters of John Grant above named, now by Marriage know nby ye nams of Hannah Browne, Frances Keyes & Ann Emerson are ye sam eyt came over wth their Father & Mother and bly them owned wth said John for their children." [Essex County, MA, Probate Files, No. 115
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Thomas married Jane Hannah Haburne in England. Jane was born before 10 Oct 1602 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England; died about 1696 in Bradford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: . Emerson. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Immigration: Bef Feb 1639, Essex County, Massachusetts

Notes:

See attached sources.

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]

Family/Spouse: Edward Hazen. Edward (son of Thomas Hassen and Elizabeth) was born on 12 Dec 1614 in Cadney, Lincolnshire, England; died on 22 Jul 1683 in Bradford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hannah married George Browne after Jul 1683. George died on 21 Oct 1699. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: . Keyes. [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:

No further record of him is found, and, as he is not mentioned in the settlement of his father's estate, in which Thomas received a double portion, it is therefore inferred that he died early, unmarried

Isabel married John Wood on 16 Jan 1680 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts. John was born on 02 Mar 1656 in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jun 1735 in Littleton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Military: officer in the militia
• Adopted: 09 Sep 1693; by George Browne
• Resided: 21 Oct 1699, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts
• Occupation: 1702, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; Constable
• Will: 28 Aug 1733, Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts

Notes:

Resided:
Richard Hazen was adopted, 9 Sept. 1693, by his step-father Lieut. George Browne, as his sole heir, and upon the death of the latter, 21 OCT 1699, came into his large estate in Haverhill.

Will:
By his will, dated 28 Aug. 1733, he gave his wife Grace "what I have agreed and contracted before marriage and five pounds to be paid in room of her Dower"; to his eldest son Richard, all his Homeland with fences and buildings thereon, all his share in the "pond meadow" and half his ox pasture, etc,; to his younger son Moses, "besides what I have given him by Deed all my lands in the Great Plain and all that Piece of land where Brewers House stood and all my Interest on the Island in the Riverand my two common Rights by Deacon Heirses and one of my Lots in the East Meadow lying on the Southwardly side of White's Lot with half of myPasture called ox common land, and have the sower meadow adjoining thereto," all other lands to be equally divided between Richard and Moses;tohis daughter Priscilla Kimball, 125 pounds; to his daughter Mary Saltmarsh, 135 pounds; to Hannah Osgood, 140 pounds; to sarah Hazzen, 200pounds; to Ann Hazzen, 200 pounds; and to his five daughters all his household goods. His sons Richard and Moses were appointed executors. [Hazen21404.FTW]

Family/Spouse: G.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]