Hazal kaq biography of william

HAZEN, WILLIAM, businessman, politician, and office holder; b. 17 July in Haverhill, Mass., youngest son of Moses Hazzen and Abigail White and brother of Moses; m. 14 July Sarah Le Baron of Plymouth, Mass., and they had at least 16 children; d. 23 March  in Saint John, N.B.

William Hazen’s father died in , leaving a small inheritance to each of his five children.

Nine years later, when soldiers were needed for Jeffery Amherst*’s campaign into Canada, William enlisted. After the war he set up as a merchant in what became Newburyport, Mass., and with the remainder of his small inheritance as capital he participated in the traditional staple trade of the New England “sedentary” or wholesale merchant.

Hazen’s interest in Nova Scotia was sparked by the activities of his two cousins James* and Richard Simonds, who had begun in the early s to investigate business prospects around the mouth of the Saint John River (N.B.), and also by