2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
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Moses Hazen (1733-1803) was a Brigadier General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Born in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, he saw action in the French and Indian War with Rogers' Rangers. His service included particularly brutal raids, during the Expulsion of the Acadians and the 1759 Battle of Quebec. He was formally commissioned into the British Army, shortly before the war ended, and retired on half-pay outside Montreal, Province of Quebec, where he and Gabriel Christie, another British officer, made extensive land purchases in partnership. During his lifetime he acquired land in Quebec, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York, but lost most of his Quebec land due to litigation, with Christie and the negative effects of the Revolution. In 1775 he became involved in the American invasion of Quebec early in the American Revolutionary War, and served with the Continental Army, in the 1775 Battle of Quebec. He went on to lead his own regiment, (the 2nd Canadian, also known as "Congress' Own") throughout the war, seeing action in the 1777 Philadelphia campaign and at Yorktown in 1781. He was frequently involved in litigation, both military and civil, and constantly petitioned Congress for compensation of losses and expenses incurred due to the war. He supported similar efforts by men from his regiment who were unable to return to Quebec because of their support for the American war effort. Autograph Document Signed , "Moses Hazen Brig. Gen'l" at the bottom 1/4 of a petition requesting Pay from 1777 through 1779 for the "Soldiers of the Canadian Old Regiment commanded by Brig. Gen'l Moses Hazen" .. . Hazen's statement in full, "I do hereby certify that the within subjects are soldiers in the Canadian Old Regiment under my command were returned as Part of the Quota of Troops of the State of Connecticut that they signed the written instrument in my Preference , Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, April 22, 1782.
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