Robert Hazlett and Mary Colwell

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Husband Robert Hazlett ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Ireland
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           Died: 1818 or 1819 3
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Colwell ²

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           Born: 
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           Died: 1844 - ? Washington, Washington Co, PA 4
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Children

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1 M Hugh Hazlett ²

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           Born: Bef 1793 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Mary McFadden (      -      ) 4

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2 M Isaac Hazlett ²

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           Born: Bef 1793 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Matilda Calhoun (      -      ) 4

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3 M John Hazlett ²

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           Born: Bef 1793 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
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           Died: while young
 Cause of Death: Fever
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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4 F Jane Hazlett ²

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           Born: Bef 1793 - Carlisle, Cumberland Co, PA
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         Spouse: Dr. James Wishart (      -      ) 4

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5 M Robert Hazlett ⁴

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           Born:  - Washington, Washington Co, PA
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         Spouse: Lucy Reed (      -      ) 4

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6 M Samuel Hazlett ^{3 4}

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           Born: 1798 - Washington, Washington Co, PA 3 5
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           Died: Nov 1863 3 5
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         Spouse: Sarah Johns (      -      ) 4

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7 F Mary Hazlett ^{3 4}

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           Born:  - Washington, Washington Co, PA
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         Spouse: James Acheson Cummins (      -      ) 4

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8 F Margaret Hazlett ⁴

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           Born:  - Washington, Washington Co, PA
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         Spouse: Michael Johns (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Hazlett

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A native of Ireland, he was educated at Edinburgh University, and soon after married and settled there for a time. Soon after the close of the Revolutionary War he emigrated with his family to America and settled near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, leaving one son at home with his grandparents. At this place the most of his children were born. About 1795 he emigrated to Washington, Pennsylvania, and purchased of the Hoges, lot No. 92 on Main Street, where he erected a dwelling. He opened a store first near Hugh Wilson's, on Main Street near Maiden, and late in 1797 moved to where William Arbuckle lived. Still later he moved the store into the house where he lived. He continued in business till his death. Robert Hazlett left six children, all of whom went West except Samuel. [HWC 1882, 486]

He came to America with his wife from Coleraine, Ireland, about the close of the Revolutionary war. They settled in Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where some of their children were born. In 1793 they concluded to change their residence for a home in the south (Kentucky), but upon arriving at Washington, Pennsylvania, over the road then traveled from Red Stone Fort, they were detained on account of a severe storm. The impression made during this brief detention was so favorable that they concluded to locate in the then small village of Washington, where he commenced business as a dry-goods merchant. Being successful he purchased property in the central part of the town, which spot was then in possession of the Hazlett family for more than one hundred years, part of the third generation being its occupants in 1893.

Of Robert Hazlett's ancestry in Ireland we know but little personally. His parents being interested in the highest welfare of the family, Robert was sent to Edinburgh (Scotland), to be educated for a clergyman in the Established Church (Episcopal), but that not being his desire, he left before taking orders. His brother, it is thought, was also at the same university, and, being more devout in the faith, became a minister in the Anglican Church, and afterward was ordained bishop.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Colwell

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It seems she was of Huguenot descent (the family name being Reanie). The ancestors escaped from France to England, and went from there to the North of Ireland, after the "Edict of Nantes" had been revoked, as there was "no safety for Protestants but in flight from their native land." She was remarkable for her personal beauty, and great force of character. During her residence in Carlisle she became very ardently attached to the Methodist Episcopal Church. With a heart consecrated to the service of Christ, her enthusiastic nature and integrity of purpose were wonderfully developed by Divine influence. She was not only a wise counselor, judicious mother, in her own home, but a tower of strength in the church of her choice. Upon arriving at Washington, not finding a Methodist minister, she would ride several miles to Chartiers Presbyterian Church to hear a sermon (Dr. McMillan being the pastor). But her zeal urged her to work for her own denomination. Collecting the few members she could find, she formed a class, and in a short time a Methodist minister (Rev. Furlong) held service in an upper room in a building used as a market house; afterward in the court house, where seats were provided for women only, men being obliged to stand. This continued until 1801, when, through the kindness of David Hoge, a lot was donated at the corner of Franklin and Chestnut streets, where a log church was speedily built, in which the small congregation worshiped, increasing in numbers and religious interest until 1816, when, through the influence of Mary Hazlett and family, a new brick church was erected on Franklin street (later occupied by Hays & Wilson as a carriage factory). As long as health permitted, she was a devout worshiper in that church, and when strength failed, had a religious meeting weekly at her own home, until she was removed to the "City whose Maker and Builder is God."

1 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 486.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 102.

3 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 487.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 103.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 104.