4. The HAZARD FAMILY

sick person in the house, drove into the back yard, and entered the house by the kitchen door. When he went out, he asked if the family always walked from the front door to the rear Of the house, or did they have some conveyance? The ell was longer than the main body of the house, and in this ell was a capacious chim— ney. Inside the chimney were two stone seats, where, tradition says, the little slave children were wont to sit; the heat from the big oak-logs being no bad sub— stitute for the hot sands Of Africa.

In 1695, Robert Hazard gave to his son George the larger part of his Petta- quamscutt purchase. The deed runs: “I, Robert Hazard, late Of Portsmouth, now of Kingstown, alias Rochester, for the natural affection that I have unto my son George, . . . . have given to him all my whole right and interest in or to the farm I live on now, by virtue of a deed from the whole Company of Pur- chasers, as may appear by a deed given under their hand. Said farm contains five hundred acres of land, more or less, bounded as in my original deed from aforesaid purchasers. Only I, said Robert Hazard, do reserve one hundred and twenty acres, and my now dwelling—house.” The boundaries mention a big rock in the boundary line, about ten feet high. This rock is still to be seen in a sub— stantial stone wall, and gave rise to the familiar name of his grandson Robert, who was called “ Roc” Robert. This was also his signature, Robert Roc [his mark] Hazard. In I710, a short time before his death, Robert sold the remain- ing part of this farm, with “ my manor house where I now live,” to his son Rob— ert (for £300, current money), who, in 1718, gave it by will to his son Robert, after his mother’s death; making three Roberts who had successively owned and occupied the Old house. The last, upon the death of his mother in 1739, sold to his uncle George the remaining part of the farm. He in his turn gave the whole farm to his son, Col. Thomas Hazard, by will, in 174.3. Col. Thomas, in 174.8, sold it to John Rose. And thus, after sixty years, the Old homestead passed out of the possession Ofthe Hazard family.

Previous to the deed Of gift to his son George, Robert had, in 1692, given to his son Stephen “all rights and interests in land belonging tO Point Judith Neck, being ye seventh part of ye same, excepting one hundred acres and Little Neck, so called, next Boston Neck.”

In 1695, he also gave his son Jeremiah two hundred acres of land in Tiver— ton; and that his eldest son Thomas had land given to him by his father, is proved by the faét that in his will he says, “land that came to me by inheritance from my father, Robert Hazard.” By these deeds it would seem that Robert Hazard owned more than one thousand acres of land.

Robert married Mary Brownell, daughter of Thomas and Anne Brownell. She was born in 1639, and died in 1739, being exactly one hundred years of age. In an Old copy of the Boston Gazette, dated Feb. 12, 1739, is found the fol—- lowing notice: “ NEWPORT, Feb. 9. Mrs. MARY HAZARD, widow Of Mr. ROB— ERT HAZARD, Of SOUTH KINGSTON, and Grand Mother to the deceased GEORGE

HAZARD, Esq., late Deputy Governor of RHODE ISLAND, departed this life the 28th.