FOURTH GENERATION 2 I

196. RICHARD HAZARD, born Dec. 31, 1730; married Summzab Hazard. I97. SARAH HAZARD, born June 27, 1734; married fob Warren.

§ 44. STEPHEN HAZARD, 4 (Thomas, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I) was born June 13, I693 ; he died December 24, 1718. He married Margaret, daughter of John and Lydia (Smith) Fones. In his will he leaves “ all my estate both real and personal, to my beloved wife Margaret.” She married in 1727, soon after the death of her young husband, Joseph Holmes. On a farm in North Kingstown, now the property of Warren Arnold, there is, a few rods south—east of the house, the family burial place of John Fones, containing twenty or thirty graves. On the east side of this ground there is a large rock, about fifteen feet broad, rising three or four feet above the ground with a perpendicular smooth side to the west, against which are the feet of the graves, each boxed to the height of about sixteen inches on the surface by common wall and flag—stones, not cemented. At the head of each there is a black slate stone about eighteen inches high, scrolled around the sides, and with the usual oval top with head and wings. The first grave at the right hand reads, “ Here lies buried Stephen Hazard Who died December y° 24, 1718; aged 25 years.”

The second reads, “ Here lies buried Susannah daughter of Stephen and Mar- garet Hazard. Died, June 8, 1717; aged 2 years and 24 days.”

For nearly two hundred years has the young husband and father rested beside his little daughter, under the shadow of the great rock, in the burial ground of his father-in—law, but no wife sleeps beside him.

CHILDREN

198. FONEs HAZARD, born May 9, I715; died in infancy.

199. SUSANNAH HAZARD, born May 9, I715 ; died June 8, I717. 200. FONES HAZARD, born Sept. 22, I717 ; married Miriam Barton, his cousin.

§ 46. GEORGE HAZARD, 4 (Thomas, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I), was born January 18, I699 ; he died 1746. His will bears date October II, 1746, about a month previous to the date of his father’s will. On July 28, 1721, his father gave him by deed fifty acres, and in 1738 he gave him by deed four hundred and nine acres, being What is known as the Thomas G. Hazard and Thomas M. Potter farms. George, by his will, gave two hundred and nine acres on the Point to his son, Enoch Hazard, Whose children sold in 1797 to Jeremiah Niles Potter, and which he in turn sold in 1798 to Elisha R. Potter.

There are many men of note that claim George Hazard as a direct ancestor, and judging from his descendants he must have been a man with a curious combination of pride and sensitiveness. Strong men do not spring from weakness. The qualities that made the Honorable Benjamin Hazard of Newport one of the best lawyers of his day, where were they not inherited? The physique and strength of his great—grandson, Sylvester R. Hazard of Newport, could not have come from a dwarf in stature. An eye—Witness says that he once saw Sylvester Hazard

place himself under a medium—sized horse, and lifting it from the ground, he car— ried