IO T126 HAZARD FAMILY 
     
    
   
   
    
     46. GEORGE HAZARD, born Jan. 18, 1699; married Mary, daughter of Eliot/7 and Mary (Sweet) Plate. 
     
     47. BENJAMIN HAZARD, born Nov. 2, 1702; married Me/Jitaé/e Redwaad. 
     
     48. JONATHAN HAZARD, born Oct. I, 1704; married Aéz'gail Maroon. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 7. GEORGE HAZARD, 3 (Robert, 2, Thomas, I), died in 1743. He was 
     
     admitted freeman of the Colony in 1696. In 1701, ’02, ’06, ’07, ’09, ’13, he was 
     
     Deputy; in 1703 and 1704., Assistant. May 6, 1713, he was appointed by the 
     
     Assembly one ofa committee to make the public road leading through the Colony 
     
     from “Pawtucket River to Pawcatuck River more straight and fair and pass— 
     
     able.”I *In 1719 he was appointed Lieutenant—Colonel of Militia for the main 
     
     land, and was ever afterward called Colonel George Hazard. He became a large 
     
     landholder like his brother Thomas. In 1695 his father gave him by deed three 
     
     hundred and fifty acres, being a part of the original purchase; and after the death 
     
     of his mother, in 1739, he bought of his nephew, Robert Hazard, the remaining 
     
     part of the farm with the manor—house. Thomas R. Hazard, in his Recollec- 
     
     tions of Olden Times, has mistaken the graves of George Hazard and of his 
     
     father and mother, upon this farm, for those of“Stout" Jeffrey Hazard and his 
     
     family. But Jeffrey calls his farm in Exeter, that he gave to his son Jeremiah, 
     
     “my homestead farm.” Colonel George Hazard kept up a very large establish— 
     
     ment until his death in I743, when he must have been over eighty years of age. 
     
     In the inventory of his personal estate, there are seventeen slaves. There were 
     
     thirty or forty head of cattle, one hunded and fifty sheep, and other animals. 
     
     On the homestead farm are still to be seen long lines of stone wall built by slaves ; 
     
     the work was so well done that the wall still stands firm and straight, after two 
     
     hundred years of frosts and changing seasons. 
     
    

    
     In 1719 (April 29), Colonel George Hazard and Henry Gardiner gave to Thomas 
     
     Culverwell, “late of Norrage, Connecticut, but now of Kingstown,” for love and 
     
     good will, “m01e especiailly for ye promoting ofy woolen manufacturing, which 
     
     may be for my benefit and the public good," etc., a traét of land, “being a little 
     
     part of my now dwelling place, and 18 bounded as follows. East and North on 
     
     the Saucatucket river, South and West on said George Hazard.” Henry Gardi— 
     
     ner gave to Culverwell full powers to make a dam over said river upon his land, 
     
     “said dam being for the promoting of a fulling mill and ye fulling of cloth.” 
     
     That this dam was built, and also a mill, which, perhaps, was operated, is proved 
     
     by the fact that two years later, September 29, I721, Culverwell gave a quit—claim 
     
     to George Hazard for this land, “ with all houses, mills, and all improvements 
     
     thereon made and done.” The boundaries place this mill at what is now known 
     
     as Lawton’s saw—mill, about half a mile north of Rodman’s mill at Mooresfield. 
     
     This must have been almost the first mill in South Kingstown, as it antedates the 
     
     old mill at Peacedale by nearly halfa century. 
     
    

    
     In 1721, George Hazard gave to his son Caleb one hundred and fifty acres, 
     
     “ with all houses and outhouses, &c., . . . in a place called the Back Side of the 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1 R. 1. Col. Rec., vol. iv, p. 151. 2 Col. Rec., vol. iv, p. 218. 
     
     Ponds.