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1691, and was the son of Thomas and Abigail Mumford. His mother, Abigail, was murdered in May, 1707, by a slave, whom tradition says she had caused to be whipped for some misdemeanor. The slave’s body was found on the shore ~ of Little Compton. The Assembly ordered that his head and legs and arms should be cut from his body and hung up in some public place, and his body be burned to ashes, that it may be “something ofa terror to others from perpe— trating of the like barbarity in the future.”

Joseph Mumford was admitted freeman of the Colony in 1722; in 1736, is found the following act : “Whereas, 7056])19 Mumford, of South Kingstown, in Kings County, yeoman, by petition, did set forth to this Assembly, that he, some time past, was at a great charge in building the pier at Point 7ndz't/9 in Soul/o Kingstown, aforesaid, which has been of great service to the country ; but by the late storm the said pier was very much damaged, and has cost the petitioner considerable to repair the same, and the petitioner having received three or four cords of timber, which was designed for Block Island pier, prayed that the same might be allowed him towards repairing his said pier.”

“ Upon consideration whereof, it is voted and ordered, that the said three or four cords of timber received by said 70561019 Mumford be allowed to him for repair— ing his said pier,without any account to be rendered for the same.” ‘ This places the pier at Narragansett as being the first pier in the town, as there is no account of another until a few years later, at Boston Neck. Both were built by mem- bers of the Hazard family.

CHILD 245. STEPHEN MUMFORD, born March 2, I718.

§57. SUSANNAH HAZARD, 4. (Stephen,3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born April 23, 1697, and died 1756 ; she married Samuel Perry (son of Samuel, son of Edward Perry). In 1722 he was admitted freeman of the Colony from Charlestown. In 1735 he was on a committee appointed by the General As— sembly to consider the feasibility of turning the Pawcatuck river into the largest salt pond in Westerly ’ in order to keep the breach open, thus providing a har— bor. Point Judith was then the nearest place for water communication with Newport and Providence for the inhabitants of Charlestown.3 The report was not favorable,»and the project was dropped, to be taken up in 1892 by the United States Government, and a harbor provided for ships as well as for the people of Charlestown. The first project concerned the salt pond in Charles— town, and the second the salt pond in South Kingstown. In 174.0, '41, ’42, ’46, Samuel Perry was Deputy for Charlestown, also in 1740 he was one of the trustees to George Ninegret, the Indian Sachem.4 In 1744. “it was voted and resolved, that Joseph Whipple, Esq‘., Deputy Governor Stephen Hopkins, Esq'., Mess”. Stephen Brownell, Robert Hazard, Job Randall, and Samuel Perry be, and they are hereby, appointed a committee to determine what is rata—

‘ Col. Rec., vol.iv, p. 527. 2 This was before Charlestown was set off from Westerly and became an independent town. 3 Col. Rec., vol. iv, p. 511. 4 Col. Rec., vol. v, p. 581. bl e