1. Hazen had been a lieutenant in the British army on half pay when he was appointed colonel of the Second Canadian Regiment on January 22, 1776. He was brevetted brigadier general on June 29, 1781, and retired on January 1, 1783. For correspondence concerning Hazen’s request for a settlement of his charges against the United States as an officer in the Continental Army, see Tobias Lear to H, December 18, 1789; Oliver Wolcott, Jr., to H, March 13, 1790 (PAH description begins Harold C. Syrett, ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton (New York and London, 1961– ). description ends , VI, 17, 302).

Hazen had originally petitioned Congress on March 29, 1790, “praying a settlement of certain claims against the United States” as an officer “in the late Army.” The next day, the House ordered that Hazen’s petition be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury for his examination and report to the House (Journal of the House description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826). description ends , I, 184, 185). The House did not take action on H’s report before it adjourned on August 12, 1790. Hazen petitioned Congress again in 1791, 1795, and 1802, without success (Journal of the House description begins Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States (Washington, 1826). description ends , I, 452; II, 284; IV, 324), before he died on February 3, 1803. On January 23, 1805, Congress passed “An Act for the relief of Charlotte Hazen, widow and relict of the late Brigadier-General Moses Hazen,” which granted her a pension of two hundred dollars a year for life beginning on February 4, 1803 (6 Stat. description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America [Private Statutes] (Boston, 1846). description ends 56).