 Moses Hazen was born in Haverhill , a frontier town in the Province of Massachusetts Bay , to an old New England Puritan family . Some histories that mention Hazen sometimes indicate that he was Jewish . A genealogist clearly documents Hazen 's lineage to England , where the family name was <unk> . Contemporaries of Hazen seem to have thought he was Jewish ; for example , Sergeant James Thompson , in his diary The Fraser ’ s Highlanders , describes meeting him during the retreat from the Battle of Sainte @-@ Foy : " On the way , I fell in with a Captain Moses Hazen , a jew " . 
