22 Tﬂe HAZARD FAMILY

ried it across the street. If one looks for gentle traits, they are found in the gra— cious courtesy of manner and the purity of life of his great—grandson, Dr. Row— land Hazard of Newport. These are speculations and history read backward, but it is history indeed, if one can judge him by the long line of honorable men and women who are his descendants.

He married, November 17, 1721, Mary, daughter of Enoch and Mary (Sweet) Place. She was born October 16, 1697.

CHILDREN

201. BENJAMIN HAZARD, born May 2, 1723 ; died 1748; married Mary 202. SIMEON HAZARD, born Aug. 8, 1725 ; married, Feb. 6, 1745, Aézgai/ Mumford. 203. MARY HAZARD, born Nov. 23, I727 ; died 1777 ; unmarried.

204. GEORGE HAZARD, born Apr. 16, 1730; married, Nov. 7, 1752, Sarab, daughter of Colonel

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Hazard. 206. ENOCH HAZARD, born Dec. 6, 1735; married Mary, daughter of 3'01”: and Alary (Perry)

Patter. 207. THOMAS HAZARD, born Oct. 11, 1738; married Mary, daughter of 70714154” and Rat};

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§ 47. BENJAMIN HAZARD,4 (Thomas, 3 ; Robert,2 ; Thomas, 1),was born November 2, 1702 ; he died in 1768. In 1738 he was given by his father three hundred and thirty acres in Boston Neck. He sold this land in 1750 to Daniel Jencks, and it is now known as the Jencks farm. Unlike his brothers, he did not increase his inheritance, and was not a large landholder. He died intestate, and probably insolvent, for after his death his daughter Hannah petitioned the town council to appoint George Hazard of Newport administrator of her father’s estate, he being his largest creditor.

Though not a large farmer, he was an important man in the aﬂfairs of the Colony, and ﬁlled many positions with credit. In 1722 he was admitted freeman from South Kingstown; in 1744, ’45, ’46 ’47, 48, he was Assistant. In 1745, “ It was resolved and voted that Benjamin Hazard, Peter Bours, and Daniel Up— dike, Esq” be, and they are hereby appointed a committee to take into con- sideration the last petition of the Massachusetts agent to the Right Honourable, the Lords of the Committee of His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, respecting the controversy about the boundaries between the said Province of Massachusetts and this Colony, and make such remarks, and form such instruc— tions thereon as they shall think necessary, and present the same to his Honour the Governor, in order to be sent to the agent by the first opportunity, and lay a copy thereof before this Assembly at their next session.” ‘ In 1749 he was on a committee appointed to burn the old tenor notes as fast as received, twenty thousand pounds of the new tenor being reckoned as eighty thousand of the old tenor.2

He married, September 13, 1739, Mehitable, daughter of Abraham and Patience

‘ Col. Rec., v01. v, pp. 116—117. 2 Col. Rec., vol. v, p. 273. Redwood