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Hazen Family Tree - William Gager, Surgeon

William Gager, Surgeon
Family Connection - 8th great-grandfather of Edward Elihu Hazen, Jr. 

William Gager was born in 1592 to James Gager. He was baptized on June 15, 1592 in Little Waldingfield, Suffolk, England. He and his wife, name unknown, had nine children:

            Sarah        b. 1618        d. 1627
            John          b. 1620        d. 1703
            William     b. 1622        d. 1622
            William     b. 1623        d. 1626
            Rebecca    b. 1625        d. 1625
            William     b. 1626        d. 1626
            Thomas     b. 1627        d. 1627
            Sarah         b. 1629        d. 1630
            Rebecca     b. 1630        d. 1630

In about 1629, John Winthrop, the founder, leader, and later Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony wrote to William Gager, asking him to consider coming to Massachusetts to be surgeon (physician, in those days) for the colony. Gager agreed. The agreement stipulated that a house was to be built for Gager in the following spring, he was to be given a cow, and be paid £20 for the current partial year, and £30 per year following.

William Gager, his wife, his surviving children John, Sarah, and Rebecca, and a servant made the journey to Massachusetts in 1630. They did not travel with the main part of the Winthrop fleet, because of the birth of their youngest, Rebecca. They came in August 1630, likely with one of the last Winthrop Fleet ships. The payment agreement above was dated August 23, 1630, so that was likely close to the Gager family's date of arrival in Massachusetts. They arrived at the time that Winthrop and others were establishing the town of Boston and moving there from Charlestown. William was the eighth person admitted to the Boston church on August 27, 1630 and was immediately named Deacon. Since Gager's house was to be built in the spring, and Winthrop later seems to include the Gager family in "his household", it is likely that the Gager family lived in John Winthrop's house. 

Marker for John Winthrop's first house in Boston



William's time in Boston was short. By November 29, 1630, John Winthrop wrote in a letter to his wife that twelve members of his household, including Mr. Gager, his wife, his servant, and two children died. Although the largest epidemic of smallpox in early Boston was in 1633, there was a wave of smallpox in the fall of 1630. Only John Gager survived from the Gager family. 

The burial site for the Gager family is not known   

William Gager > John Gager > Hannah Gager > Jonathan Brewster > Ruth Brewster > Emma Forbes > Lucy Storrs > Emmaline Goodall > Harriet Augusta Hurlburt > Edward Elihu Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen, Jr.              Charts H-P and H-Main







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