Background
Samuel Hazard was born on May 26, 1784, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, the son of Ebenezer Hazard and his wife Abigail Arthur.
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Annals of Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Annals of Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware Another desirable object of research connected with this early period, was the arrival and settlement of the English on our river, respecting which but little was known. As the first attempts were made by New Haven and other parts of New England, the author, (notwithstanding the records of the United Colonies had been generally examined by his father, and published in his Historical Collections,) supposing that some facts could be found which had not attracted his attention, carefully examined the records in New Haven, Hart ford, Boston, and Plymouth, as well in the public oiiices as in possession of Historical Societies there, and in New York; which research, though not very fruitful, furnished some documents, which appear in their proper places in this work. Besides these, the records at New Castle and Dover have been put under requisition for information respecting the English, after the dis appearance of the Dutch and Swedes. Much valuable matter was thence obtained, especially at the former place, respecting the courts, (which then, under the governors at New York, managed affairs of both church and state,) early grants of land, the landing, and taking possession by Penn, &c. The records in our own public ofiices have not furnished much information rela tive to this period, though they no doubt will be of value for the subsequent portion of the work. From these, and all other promising sources, the author has endeavoured, with much labour, time, and expense, to obtain the most authentic infor mation Of this early period, in which but little assistance could be derived from books or individuals. Only they who have been in the practice of examining ancient records, can appreciate the difficulty frequently attend ing it, in deciphering the names of persons and places, &c. This is men tioned to account, in part, for the variety, used in printing names, it being often impossible to ascertain the correct mode of spelling, as well as the person or place intended. In general, the mode adopted by the writers has been employed. Many places cannot, at the present time, be identified by the name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Vol. 13: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information Respecting the ... January, 1834 to July, 1834 (Classic Reprint)
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Colonial Records of Pennsylvania
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Colonial Records of Pennsylvania. 721 Pages.
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Santo Domingo: Past and Present; With a Glance at Hayti (Classic Reprint)
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PREFACE.Island of St Domi ngo from its discovery by Columbus tothe present time, illustrating, as much as possible, its scenesand people by his own sketches, and photographs and Cllgravingsgathered from various source8.At a time when the masscs of the people of the UuitedStates were watching with int.erest the nction of their representativesin Congress on the question of the admissiollof St Domingo into the Union, the author was surpri~eu tofind how little was really known, either of the present orthe past of that historic isle; and in endeavourizJg to obtaint.his information for himself, he was astonished to find thegreat lack of llOoks (at least accessible, and in the Englishlanguage) giving connected information of an island thathad for so long a time1 and in so many ways, played suchan important part in the history of the world.Joiuing after'lNards, on the island1 the Commissioll sent.out by the United States Gover
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Pennsylvania Archives
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Samuel Hazard
Edit ProfileEducation
Samuel received his early education at an academy at Woodbury, New Jersey.
Career
During the early years of his adult life Samuel Hazard was a merchant in Philadelphia and made several voyages to the West Indies and the Mediterranean. In 1818 he moved to Huntsville, Alabama Territory, where he conducted a cotton brokerage and general mercantile business until 1827. In January 1828 he founded a weekly periodical in Philadelphia entitled the Register of Pennsylvania, but the enterprise was not financially successful and was abandoned in 1836. The sixteen volumes of the series contain state papers and public documents, legal decisions, documents relating to the early history of the state, Indian history, treaties, anecdotes and antiquities, biographical memoirs, meteorological tables, mineralogical notes, and other interesting information. They are especially rich in historical material. Some of the manuscripts in the American Philosophical Society relating to the early settlements on the Delaware were published for the first time in volumes IV and V of this series. The book is really a prologue or introduction to the Annals, being devoted primarily to the Swedish and Dutch settlements on the Delaware. It is based on original material, collected from a variety of sources, most of which had not been published before. Considering the state of historical knowledge in 1850, it is a very creditable piece of work.
Although Hazard had nothing to do with the editing of the Colonial Records, he supervised the preparation of a general index to both the Records and the Archives, published in Philadelphia in one volume in 1860. In the index he left much to be desired, but as editor of what has come to be known as the first series of the Pennsylvania Archives, he set a high standard for his successors, and in the Register of Pennsylvania and the United States Commercial and Statistical Register he left mines of information for the student of American economic history. Hazard died at Germantown, Pennsylvania, just a few days before his eighty-sixth birthday.
Achievements
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Samuel Hazard was famous as editor of the Pennsylvania Archives: Selected and Arranged from Original Documents in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. Of these there were twelve volumes (1852 - 1856), covering the period from the English conquest of New Netherland in 1664 to the adoption of the second state constitution in 1790.
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Annals of Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware (Classic Reprint)
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Pennsylvania Archives
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania, Vol. 13: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents, and Every Kind of Useful Information Respecting the ... January, 1834 to July, 1834 (Classic Reprint)
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Colonial Records of Pennsylvania
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Santo Domingo: Past and Present; With a Glance at Hayti (Classic Reprint)
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Cuba with Pen and Pencil
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Annals of Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware (Classic Reprint)
Connections
On March 18, 1819, Hazard was married, in Alabama, to Abigail Clark Hetfield of Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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May 22, 1870 (aged 85) -
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Nationality
American