

1707, WILLIAM JOHNSON of Andover, widower, who d. 1704, aged 48 years, his estate being divided among his children, James, John, Isaac, Hannah, Samuel, and Mary m. (1), as his second wife, ]AMES TURNER of Charlestown, who cl. at Andover, aged 55 years (gravestone) m. 423), however, the year is misprinted as 1641.Ħ 6 John Lazell and Some of His Descendants THOMAS, b. ithis marriage, with this date, appears in Rev. t All places mentioned in this genealogy are situated within the present limits of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, unless another State or region is indicated in the text ot may be easily inf erred from the context. Peter Hobart's Journal the spelling is always Lazell. 14 May *In the town records of Hingham this surname is spelled Lassell until 1669, and thereafter Lazell. It is preserved in the probate files, but was neither sworn to nor recorded. The inventory of his estate, taken 19 Dec by Francis James and James Hawke, amounted to s. In it he named his wife Elizabeth, his eldest son Thomas, his sons Stephen, John, and Israel, his daughters Hannah Turner, Mary Burr, and Sarah Ripley, and three of his grandchildren, Joshua Lazell, son of his son Joshua, deceased, and Isaac and Abial Lazell, children of his son Isaac, deceased. 1700/1, is preserved in the Suffolk Registry of Probate.

Oct " His will, dated 2 Sept and proved in Boston 11 Jan.

Although no gravestone now remains to mark his burial place, one existed some years ago, as is shown by the following copy of the inscription found among the papers of the late J osiah 6 Lasell of Whitinsville : "Here lyes ye Body of John Lazell, aged 81 years. Since that date the surname has not been represented at Hingham. This property was held in the family for one hundred and eighty-five years, until his death, in 1832, of Hannah (Fearing) Lazell, wido,v of Samuel 4 Lazell (No.

He was constable in He appears to have acquired the house lot and other grants of land made to Nicholas Hodsden, who had settled at Hingham about 1636 and had moved to that part of Kittery Maine, which is now South Berwick soon after his wife's death in These various parcels of land are described and bounded in the original volume of land grants and were situated in what is now called Hingham Centre, near Lazell Street, about a mile southwest from the railroad station. 1649,+ Elizabeth Gates, daughter of Stephen and Ann Gates, who came to New England with her parents on the ship Diligent in 1638 and died at Hingham 3 Aug John Lazell was a resident of Hingham as early as 1647, when he was about twenty-eight years of age. JoHN LAZELL (or LASSELL),* of Hingham,t husbandman, probably born in England about 1620, died there 21 Oct He married 29 Nov. December, THE CoMPILER.ĥ JOHN LAZELL OF HINGHAM, MASS., AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS By THEODORE STUDLEY LAZELL, A.B., of Newton, Mass. ~I y thanks are hereby extended to all who have assisted in the work. Such later facts as have come unsolicited have been included. Although it has not been practicable to bring the record strictly up to date yet it seems worth while that it should be preserved in permanent form and made available for future use. Their letters will be deposited with the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Meanwhile another generation has come into being and most of those who co-operated in giving the information have gone to their reward. 3 PREFACE The genealogy here presented was mostly compiled in the years 1898 to 1903, with the encouragement of my brother James Draper Lazell, and would have been printed some thirty years ago but for his untimely death.
