AUTHOR’S NOTE.

g HE compiler of this volume, who is a descendant of the Hazard a family, has not endeavored to make a scientific, formal or final his~

logical data in relation to the Hazard family. Such sketches of A; individuals have been inserted as the writer has been able herself to "1?, compile, or readily to obtain from sources of information open to a " everyone. I he fac—similes and portraits have been, as is often the case in books of this class, secured where it was possible to secure them, without always bear— ing a strict relation to the importance of the individual represented. In many cases where it would have been desirable, owing to the eminence of the person in question, to have given them greater distinction by this means or by a very full biographical sketch, it has not always been possible to do so; while, in other cases, less known members of the family have obtained a fuller treatment, owing to sources of information more readily available. Of the defects of the volume the author herself is more fully aware than the reader can be; but she is also more cognizant of the many dificulties which have pre- vented the perfection which she wished to obtain. flValuable assistance has been given to the compiler of the records by Mr. Peleg F. Pierce of Wickford, Dr. Henry E. Turner of Newport, the late Mr. Stanton Hazard of PVesterly, Mr. H. 7. Cundall of Prince Edward Island, and Mr. fumes N. Arnold. Thanks are especially due to Mr. Thomas Crombe, Town Clerk of North Kingstown, and Mr. Howard Perry, who holds the same ofice in South Kingstown, for unvarying kindness and great assistance in searching the manuscript records of which they are the custodians. It should here be said, in passing, that the references to' the Rhode Island Colonial Records allude to the printed volumes, not to the manuscripts themselves. flShe also desires to acknowledge her indebtedness to Mrs. William D. Moss of Westerly, for permission to copy the interesting portrait of Captain Stanton Haz- ard; to Mr. Rowland Hazard of Peacedale, for his kindness in furnishing the por— traits of his father, Rowland G. Hazard, and of his uncle, Isaac Peace Hazard;

to the President of Brown University for permission to reproduce the portraits of v Oliver