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series of papers. He served with distinction during the French war and was with Wolfe at the taking of Quebec where he was severely wounded. He sided against the mother country in the Revolution, raised a regiment called "Hazen's own," and was a Brigadier General at the close of the war.

(4) William Hazen, third son of Moses Hazen, was the co-partner of Simonds and White at St. John. He was born in Haverhill, July 17, 1738, and died at St. John, March 23, 1814. He married July 14, 1764, Sarah Le Baron, of Plymouth. They had sixteen children; of these Elizabeth married the elder Ward Chipman, Judge of the Supreme Court and administrator of the government of New Brunswick at his death in 1824; William was father of Hon. Robert L. Hazen, recorder of St. John, a leader in our provincial politics and a Canadian senator; Robert was the father of Robert F. Hazen, mayor of St. John in 1837;^[1] Sarah Lowell married first Thomas Murray (grandfather of Miss Frances Murray of St. John) and second Judge William Botsford and their children were Senator Botsford, George Botsford of Fredericton, and LeBaron Botsford of St. John; Charlotte married General Sir John Fitzgerald; Frances Amelia married Colonel Charles Drury of the British army and the late Ward Chipman Drury of St. John was one of their sons.

Connected with the decease of several prominent members and relatives of the Hazen family there are some rather remarkable coincidences as to dates. The eldest daughter of William Hazen, widow of the elder Ward Chipman, died at the Chipman house May 18, 1852, the 69th anniversary of the landing of the