24. 7726 HAZARD FAMILY

§ 49. ABIGAIL HAZARD, 4 (George, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I), was born March 9, 1690; she married Ebenezer Niles, son of Nathaniel and Sarah

(Sands) Niles; he was born December 3, 1683. After her death he married Sa— rah Kenyon. He was brother to the Rev. Samuel Niles and Nathaniel Niles, and, with the last, owned several hundred acres in and about the village of Wake- field including a grist— mill and saw—mill. In a deed of land from his father, he was given permission to raise the dam to a certain stone, or to a certain mark on said stone. The picturesque old house 1n Wakefield now known as Dalecarlia was built by his brother, Nathaniel Niles, who died in 1766 ; so this makes the house certainly from a century and a quarter to a century and a half old.

CHILDREN 222. EBENEZER NILES, born March 4, 1710.

223. PENELOPE NILEs. 224. SARAH NILEs.

§ 51. CALEB HAZARD 4, (George,3 ; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born No-

vember 24, 1697 ;he died January 15, 1726. His father gave to him by deed one hundred and fifty acres, “land that I bought of George Whitman, bounded

South on land of said Whitman, West on highway, North on land of William Congdon, East on Point Judith Ponds.” This was the farm now owned by Elisha F. Watson. It was on this farm that Caleb was buried. If one can judge by the size of his grave, physically he could have been no exception to the Hazards of that day. He married, November 19, I719, Abigail, daughter of William Gardi— ner. After his death his widow married, March 2, I727, Deputy—Governor Wil— liam Robinson, and was the mother of six of his children.

CHILDREN 225. WILLIAM HAZARD, born April 12, 1721; married Phebe, daughter of fife/m and Damarix Hall

of Jamestown. ‘1226. ROBERT HAZARD, born May I, 1723; married Elizabeth daughter of Deputy-Gov. Raéert Hazard. 227. CALEB HAZARD, born Jam, 1724; died young.

228. CALEB HAZARD, born Sept. 22, 1726; married Mary ; he died March 4, I784.

§ 52. GEORGE HAZARD, 4 (George, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born 0&0— ber 9, 1700; he died in 1738 ; his will was recorded May 22, 1738. He was admitted freeman of the Colony in 1721. In 1729 he was Deputy, and so continued six years. In 1733 he was Speaker of the House of Representatives, and 1n 1734 was elected Deputy Governor of the Colony, and was re—eleéted four years in succes- sion, dying in oflice In 1738. In 1733 he bought of his father, for one thousand pounds, the farm then (and still) called “The Foddering Place.’ About this time he built the old house, taken down about twenty years ago by Joseph Peace Hazard. The old house, like all houses of the wealthy planters of that day, was very large, being fifty feet on the front, having a fan— —light over the entrance door,

above which was a large arched window which gave light to the hall. This hall was square