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Hazen Family Tree - Thomas Vose, King Phillip's War Veteran

Capt. Thomas Vose - Veteran of King Phillip's War

Family Connection - 6th great-grandfather of Edward Elihu Hazen, Jr. 


Thomas Vose was born on Feb. 18, 1641, in Lancashire, England, the son of the Nov. 19th blog post subjects, Robert Vose and Jane Moss. He immigrated to Dorchester, Massachusetts with his parents, sometime before 1654. 

In 1660 or 1661, Thomas married Waitstill Wyatt, daughter of Edward Wyatt and Mary Newport in Dorchester. They had four children: 
            Elizabeth            b. 1661         d. 1730
            Henry                 b. 1663         d. 1752
            Jane                    b. 1665         d. after 1708 
            Thomas              b. 1667         d. 1722

Thomas and his family lived on a farm in Milton, Massachusetts given to him by his father in 1661. He added about 200 acres to his farm in 1682. 

Thomas was an active member of the Milton community. He served as selectman (town council) for eighteen years, town clerk for seventeen, Representative to General Court (legislature) for ten years, and many town and church committees. 

Thomas was also one of the grantees in the Dorchester New Grant, which would become Stoughton. He gave his son-in-law Henry Crane, Elizabeth's husband, 80 acres of his land grant on 1707. 

Thomas Vose was a Lieutenant under Capt. Samuel Wadsworth during King Phillip's War. Thomas was a survivor of the Great Swamp fight, when Colonial troops attacked the Narraganset Fort on Dec. 19, 1675. Vose was commissioned Captain in June of 1689, and in June of 1690 was appointed one of the two captains in the expedition to Canada in King William's War. There is no record if he actually joined the expedition. 
Monument at site of the Great Swamp Fight

Thomas Vose died on April 23, 1708 in Milton. In his will, he made provisions for his widow Waitstill and his children. Waitstill Wyatt Vose died in 1727. Thomas and Waitstill are buried in the Milton Cemetery in Milton, Massachusetts. 

Thomas Vose > Henry Vose > Robert Vose > Samuel Vose > John Vose > Martha Vose > John Vose Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen Jr. 

Thomas is in the green section, Fourth ring from outside, at the bottom of the top chart.  The central person of the top chart, Samuel Vose. is in the second ring from the outside, midway through the green section of the bottom chart.









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