Re: Hannah Kasar/Keyser, md Corwin,Howell-LI
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Hannah Kasar/Keyser, md Corwin,Howell-LI
Norris Taylor 4/30/00
More discovered on this lady:
Hi:
Looking for the identity of the wife of Jonathan Corwin and her parents.
She is listed in a marriage record of Norwich, Conn, as: "Jonathan Corwin & Hannah Hazen, Feb 4, 1778", in Early Connecticut Marriages... As Found in Ancient Church Records", Bailey, Jacobus.
Mather in his "1776 Immigrants from Long Island to Conn", in its sketch of Jonathan Corwin, says she (also referring to her as Hazen) had three children by him, who were baptized when she was a widow on Oct 30, 1785, Hannah, Jason, and Rebecca, all shown as age 6. Mather then says she married 2) John Howell and died in Mattituck, Long Island, 12/25/1831, age 78 (ie born 1753).
A recent Howell Genealogy says her maiden name was Kasar, making no reference to the fact the name as given in the(transcribed) Corwin marriage record as Hazen. (Gives no parents.)
I have not seen the original record, but one can visualize how "Kazar" and "Hazen", with some handwriting would look similar.
She did have a grandchild whose middle name was Kasar/Kazar. (John Kasar Hallock)
I don't know if the Howell Genealogy is picking up the name from the grandchild's middle name, or if the compiler knows something that suggests the transcribed marriage record was really for Kazar, not Hazen.
There was a Keezer family in Stonington, who had a Hannah of the right age. (Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Wedge) Keezer, b 1753). Many of that family spelled their name Kasar/Kazar and many other variations.
Can anyone place this Hannah into a Keyser/Kasar family... any reference to a Hannah Howell or Corwin, or others of Howell or Corwin surnames (nephew?, etc?), in any will or other document that suggests a relationship to this Long Island family??
Or... can anyone rule out the Hannah, daughter of Samuel and Hannah (Wedge) Keezer, by knowledge of her whereabouts or spouses that would contradict her living in Long Island from after the Revolution.
Thanks for your support.
Norris Taylor