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     death he is always found performing the duties attendant upon his position, 
     
     making and sustaining the laws of the Colony. 
     
     His home was on Point Judith, on land given to him by his father’s will, and 
     
     was a part Of the homestead farm. He married Esther, daughter of Joseph and 
     
     Esther (Gallup) Stanton. Updike, in his Hirtary oftbe Narragansett Chara/9, says : 
     
     “ Esther, the widow OfGovernor Hazard, was an extraordinary woman, portly and 
     
     masculine.‘ She was styled Queen Esther, and when mounted on her high—spirited 
     
     Narragansett pacer, proudly travelling through the Narragansett country, the 
     
     people would almost pay her homage. To Offend her required more than ordinary 
     
     courage. In manner she was affable and courteous, but when irritated her stern— 
     
     ness would compel obedience. In a lawsuit, the title tO a considerable part of the 
     
     patrimony of her children was jeopardized. That no omission should endanger a 
     
     favorable result of the suit, she attended the trial in person, and, from courtesy, 
     
     she was permitted to sit on the bench near the judges. On a motion to the Court 
     
     by Mr. Honeyman, who was the attorney for the adverse party, she, by a quick 
     
     and sarcastic reply to a severe remark of his, excited the laughter of the Court, 
     
     bar and audience, to the complete discomfiture of the old barrister. The claim 
     
     of the adversary was defeated, and Queen Esther became quite a heroine in the 
     
     courts of law. The rights of an infant offspring were safe in the hands of such a 
     
     mother.” Unfortunately, the nature of this celebrated retort, being more witty 
     
     and strong than delicate, forbids its repetition. That it was well deserved, and 
     
     called forth by the attack, seems to have been understood by the court and bar, 
     
     which evidently exulted in the discomfiture of the worthy Honeyman. 
     
     CHILDREN 
     
     262. JOSEPH HAZARD, born May 21, I728 ; married, Sept. 28, I760, Hanna/2, daughter of Deputy- 
     
     Governor fanat/Jan Nit/1011. 
     
     263. ELIZABETH HAZARD, born May 31, 1730; married, April 19, I75 2, Dr. Robert Hazard, her 
     
    
   
   
    
     second cousin. For children see Dr. Robert Hazard, N0. 226. 
     
     264. ESTHER HAZARD, born Dec. 7, 1732; married 7a/Iat/Jaa Barron}. 
     
     265. STEPHEN HAZARD, born Jan. 13, 1736. 
     
     266. ROBERT HAZARD, born Jan. 13, I736. 
     
     267. SAMUEL HAZARD, born about 1739; married, May 3, 1763, Harma}; Perry. 
     
     268. HANNAH HAZARD, born 1741; died 1798; unmarried. 
     
    
   
   
    
     269. JOSHUA HAZARD. 
     
     27o. STANTON HAZARD, born Jan. 8, 1743; married Elizaaatb Wick/Jam. 
     
    
   
   
    
     §60. SAMUEL HAZARD, 4. (Stephen, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, 1), was born 
     
     July 28, 1705. He was admitted freeman of the Colony, from South Kingstown, 
     
     in 1728 ; by his father’s will he was given two hundred acres in North Kingstown, 
     
     and also a part of Mumford Island, in Point Judith (now called Great Island). 
     
     In the division of the slaves he was given “ Short Joe” and the negro woman 
     
     Megg. His home was for a time in North Kingstown, where he and his brother 
     
     Thomas, in 1729, established a fulling—mill, on the present site of, or near Ham- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ Governor Hazard was an exceptionally small man. 
     
     ' Updike’s Hist. of the Narragansett Church, p. 250. 
     
    
   
   
    
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