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Kingstown until March 1, 1731—2, when he was admitted freeman of Westerly,

possibly that part of Westerly now Charlestown. He subsequently returned to

South Kingstown, and took oath there May 6, I735.

CHILDREN

277. DORCAS PERRY, married Henry Patter.

278. SUSANNAH PERRY.

279. ELIZABETH PERRY.

28o. SARAH PERRY.

281. ALICE PERRY.

282. BENJAMIN PERRY, married Ruth Potter. He is probably the Berg/Izmir; Perry who was permit— ted by the General Assembly to take the test-oath, March 9, 1778; and allowed, Dec. I778,

£9 12;. for arresting a noted Tory. In 1778, Benjamin Perry, of South Kingstown, had a slave, Garret Perry, who enlisted in the army, and was valued at £120.

§ 82. JEFFREY HAZARD, 4. (Robert, 3; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I), was born September 29, 1696 ; he died in 1767. In 1718 his father gave him by will three hundred acres in Point Judith, with the Mansion House, “where I now live." Jeffrey was to bring up the younger children, all of them then being under age. In 1722 he bought of James Kenyon three hundred acres in Exeter, then in North Kingstown, as Exeter was not set off from that town until 1743. This land was bounded north on the estate of Benedié‘t Arnold, west on dividing line of Pettaquamscut purchase, and south by land in possession of Jedediah Irish, east by undivided land, or on Cedar Swamp. By deed of gift dated 1751, he gave this land, calling it “my homestead farm,” to his eldest son Jeremiah. One authority says that “ Stout Jeffrey ” lived in Boston Neck, on what is now known as the Governor Brown Farm. If this is a fact, then he must have been a tenant, and not owner of the farm, as this farm was, and had been since 1739, or earlier, in possession of Thomas Hazard (3), and his direct descendants. In 174.6, Jonathan, son of Thomas, gave it to his son “Virginia Tom” Hazard; in 1760 his first wife was buried there. However, the residence or non—residence of “ Stout Jeffrey,” on this farm, does not in any way affect the truthfulness of the tradition that he did show the slaves how to make a stone wall, by lifting a blue stone, weighing by the scales sixteen hundred and twenty pounds, to its place on the foundation. There is another legend equally marvellous and equally well vouched—for in proof of the great strength of the man. The second legend relates that he once had an encounter with a man of great strength, who had come from a long distance to meet the Narragansett giant. When the man dismounted from his horse and stated his errand, Jeffrey picked him up and tossed him over the wall (it should have been the same wall that he had helped to build), and then threw the horse over to keep his master company. Notwithstanding his splendid vitality he died comparatively young, from the effeét of a slight cold, taken While attending to his duties as Councilman. He was Deputy from Kingstown almost uninterruptedly from 1735 until 1758. There are a few descendants of“ Stout Jeffrey ” in the town at the present day,

and,