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Hazen Family tree- Thomas Grant Hazen III - early settler of Hartford, Vt., Revolutionary War Veteran

 Thomas Grant Hazen III - early settler of Hartford, Vermont and Revolutionary War Veteran

Family Connection - 4th Great-grandfather of Edward Elihu Hazen

Grave of Thomas Grant Hazen III in Christian Street Cemetery, Hartford, VT

Thomas Grant Hazen III was born on Sept. 30, 1719 to Thomas Grant Hazen, Jr. and Sarah Ayer Hazen in Norwich, Connecticut.

(No, I haven't blogged about TGH Jr. yet, but I wanted to blog about TGH III while I was focusing on the Revolutionary War.)

Thomas married his second cousin Ann Tenney on March 7, 1742 in Norwich. She was the daughter of Joseph and Abigail (Wood) Tenney. Thomas and Ann had sixteen children, all born in Norwich. 

        Eunice          b. 1743            d. 1753
        Joshua          b. 1745            d. 1796
        Abiah           b. 1747            d. 1821
        Asa               b. 1749            d. 1819
        Reuben         b. 1751            d. 1760
        Elijah            b. 1752            d. 1832
        Silas              b. 1754            d. 1778
        Hezekiah       b. 1756            d. 1829
        Thomas IV    b. 1758            d. 1835
        Solomon       b. 1759            d. 1849
        Daniel           b. 1761            d. 1814
        Ann               b. 1763            d. 1765
        Eunice           b. 1765            d. 1826
        Philemon       b. 1766            d. 1845
        Reuben          b. 1768            d. 1852
        Ann                b. 1771            d. 1859

In April 1740, Thomas purchased land in Woodbury, Connecticut. After his marriage in 1742, he continued to increase his land holdings in Woodbury for about 30 years. 

In 1765-1766, Thomas' son Joshua had moved to what is now Hartford, Vermont. The settlers of that area were trying to obtain a charter from the governor of New York. They needed funds to pay their agent, so Joshua borrowed the funds from his father. 

In 1768, Thomas purchased two parcels land in Hartford. He gave one of the parcels to his son Joshua in 1770. 

In 1772, the settlers of Hartford chose Thomas and another man to act as their agents to the Governor of New York. 

In 1773, Thomas was granted 1000 acres in Hartford in repayment for the loan to the town, and the right to purchase an additional 560 acres for his services as agent. 

In about 1774, Thomas moved permanently to Hartford, Vermont. According to tradition, his wife Ann went to Hartford to visit her son Joshua, and decided she didn't want to leave. All of his surviving children moved to Woodbury except Elijah, who traveled part of the way but returned to Connecticut. 

In 1775, Thomas built the first two-story house in Hartford. The house still exists at Brookside Farm, 
part of the Historic District of Hartford. Tradition says the men building the house heard the booming of the cannon at the Battle of Bunker Hill while they were shingling the roof. It sounds implausible, but others, including the President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire near the Vermont border, made the same claims. 

In October 1780, the regiment of Col. John Wood was called to march to Brookfield, Vermont in response to a British-led Native American raid against several towns in the White River Valley of Vermont. Thomas and four of his sons, Asa, Hezekiah, Thomas IV, and Solomon all enlisted in Capt. Joshua Hazen's Company, part of Wood's regiment. Yes Thomas and three of his sons enlisted in a Company commanded by their son and brother.  They served for three days and credited for forty hours of travel. The five Hazen men also marched to Piermont at General Bayley's request on March 9, 1781. For that, they were credited with two days service and sixty miles travel. 

On Aug. 20, 1781, Thomas deeded 120 acres of land in Hartford to each of his twelve surviving children. He died a year later, on Aug. 19, 1782. 

Thomas Grant Hazen III > Solomon Hazen  > Solomon Hazen > Norman Hazen > John Vose Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen, Jr. 

Thomas is on the outermost ring of the green section at the bottom of the fan chart. 

               


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