THE HAZARD FAMILY 
     
    
   
   
    
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     , ROBERT HAZARD 9. (Thomas, I), was born 1635; he died 
     
     ‘ 1710. In 1665 he was admitted freeman of Portsmouth, Rhode 
     
     ‘ Island. From this time until 1698 his name often appears in the 
     
     ‘ Colonial records as chosen to fill some important position. In 1658, 
     
     he sold John Roome, of Portsmouth, all his interest in Conanicut 
     
     .. ' and Dutch Island. In 1667, the Court at Plymouth ordered, in 
     
     reference to a controversy between the English and Indians about bounds in 
     
     Dartmouth, that in case Robert Hazard, of Rhode Island, could be procured, 
     
     he should run the lines, etc. In 1670, he was juryman. In 1671, he bought 
     
     five hundred acres of land in Kingstown, of the Pettaquamscutt purchasers. 
     
     In 1676, he and three others of Portsmouth were a committee ordered by the 
     
     Assembly to appoint their own men as keepers of Indians above twelve years of 
     
     age. The Indians were to have “a sufficient place of security.” Any master of— 
     
     fending was to pay a fine of£5. In 1676, Robert Hazard was on a committee to 
     
     procure boats for the colony’s defence “for the present, and there were to be four 
     
     boats with five or six men in each.”‘ At the same date he and three others were 
     
     empowered to take exact account of all the inhabitants on the island, “ English, 
     
     negroes and Indians, and make a list of the same, and also to take exact account 
     
     how all persons are provided with corn, guns, powder, shot and lead.” A barrel 
     
     of powder was put in charge of himself and three others, and two great guns in 
     
     the yard of the late William Brenton, were to be impressed into the country’s 
     
     service and carried to Portsmouth, and placed, one “in the Ferry Neck and one 
     
     near the house ofJohn Borden.” Robert Hazard and three others were to see that 
     
     the guns were set on carriages and fitted for service. In 1676, also, he was ap- 
     
     pointed as commissioner to take care of and order the several watches and wards 
     
     on the island, and appoint the places. In 1687, he was taxed 115. 7d. in Kings— 
     
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     Not long after this date, he built his house in Kingstown, which was still 
     
     standing in the early part ‘of the present century. It was on the site where now 
     
     stands the house owned and occupied by the daughters of William Watson, 
     
     Esq",in the village of Mooresfield. The old house was very large, —— possibly the 
     
     largest in the town, not only at that time but for many years after. A well au— 
     
     thenticated story is told of Dr. William Shaw, who, being called in to attend a 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ R. 1. Col. Rec., vol. ii, pp. 535—536. 2 Col. Rec., vol. ii, p. 537. 
     
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