The AUTHOR’S NOTE.

Oliver Hazard Perry and General Isaac Rodman, now in the dining-hall of the Col— lege; to Dr. William Elliot Grifis for permission to use the plateof Matthew Cal— hraith Perry ; to Mrs. Richard K. Randolph of Kingston, for the use of the water— color sketch of her great—grandmother, Ahigail Hazard Watson; to General 7ohn G. Hazard, for the use of his portrait ;to Mrs. Bond of Springfield, for the portrait of her father, Augustus Hazard; to Mrs. William Woodward, for the portrait of Samuel Rodman ; and to the family of Mrs. Baldwin, for the portrait of their mother. The arms of the English Hassards, or Hazards, appear on the title page and are taken from those given in the “Reminiscenees of Thomas R. Hazard.” The portrait of Coddington, first Governor of Rhode Island, and of Ahraham Redwood, as well as others of the older portraits, more or less in a direfi line of aneestry, have heen added at the suggestion of Mr. Berkeley Updike of Boston (himself a descendant of the family), who has carried the hook through the press, and to whose care it owes its form of presentation.

1T1 t only remains to express gratitude ahorve all to one whose kindness has caused this work to he printed; hut whose eharatteristie refusal to allow her name to he mentioned as so doing, will disclose her to the friends of the author.

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