ENS Moses Hazen

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(Research):Moses Hazzen was Ensign in command of a detachment of "Centinels" doing Indian scout duty, 6 Sep. to 27 Oct. 1725. In 1731 Joseph Whittier and Moses Hazzen petitioned the proprietors of Haverhill for permission to build a wharf on the Merrimack near Mill Brook, which was granted on condition that they kept the two bridges near them on repair "forever," paid fifty pounds, and built a good wharf, at least 100 feet wide, and from the highway to low water mark. [Chase, History of Haverhill, 264, 303.] In 1726, with his brother Richard, he was one of the original proprietors of Pennycook (Concord, N.H.), but did not settle there. The inventory of the estate of Moses Hazzen late of Haverhill, amounting 1075.13, pounds was sworn to by Abigail Hazzen, 28 May 1750. In the division of the estate, the widow Abigail, and children John, Moses, William, and Anna Hazzen, and Abigail wife of Benjamin Mooers, were mentioned. John Hazzen of Hampstead, Gentleman, Menjamin Mooers, Tanner, and Abigail his wife, Moses Hazzen, Gentleman, Robert Peaslee, yeoman, and Anna his wife, and William Hazzen, Goldsmith, all of Haverhill, for the consideration of 400 pounds, gave a quitclaim deed of an island in Merrimack River to Moses Clements. [Essex Deeds, 119:243.]