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Benjamin and Sarah (Easton) Coggeshall. He was called “Little Jonathan.” He died December 9, 1795.

CHILDREN

346. MARY EASTON, born May 20, 174.3 ; marriedTlJamm G. Hazard,- died Nov. 26, 1794..

347. NICHOLAS EASTON, born June 29, 174.4. ; married Elizaéetb Potter, of South Kingstown; died June 21,1789.

34.8. JONATHAN EASTON, born August 6, 174.7; married Sarab Tburrtoﬂ, daughter of Peleg and Sara]; Tbuntm, Dec. 3, I778 ; died March 13, 1813.

349. SARAH EASTON, born Aug. 16, 1749; died Nov. 3, 1827.

350. HANNAH EASTON, born 1750; died Oct. 29, I797.

351. BENJAMIN EASTON, born Aug. 28, I752 ; died Sept. 16, 1807.

352. RUTH EASTON, born May 21, 1754.; married, 1787, as second wife, Godfrey Hazard, and was the mother of Dr. Jonathan E. Hazard.

353. PATIENCE EASTON, born Sept. 24., 1756; died Aug. 30, I811.

354. JOHN EASTON, born March 26, 1758; died Aug. 21, I823 ; married, ISt, Rut/J, daughter of Roéert Taylor; she died March 11, 1806. He married, 2d, her sister, Hannah Taylor,- she died Aug. 3, 1832, aged 79 years.

355. STEPHEN EASTON, born Oct. 18, I759 ; died Oct. 19, 1759.

356. REBECCA EASTON, born Oct. 18, 1759; died Oct. 19, 1759. The mother died the follow-

ing day, Oct. 20, 1759.

§ 191. JOHN EASTON, 5 (Sarah Hazard,4; Thomas, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born 1713 ; he married, April 17, 1735, Patience, daughter of Abraham

and Patience (Howland) Redwood.

CHILDREN

357. NICHOLAS EASTON, born May 4, I752 ; died Nov. 28, I825.

358. MARY EASTON; married May 27, 1773, 70:17)}; Thuntoﬂ, son of 7710771111 and Aéigail Tburrton. 35811. A CHILD; 3585. A CHILD; 358 z. A CHILD; 358 d. A CHILD; 358 e. A CHILD.

§ 194. THOMAS HAZARD, 5, called “ College Tom ” (Robert, 4. ; Thomas, 3 ; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born September 15, 1720; diedin 1798. In 1742 he was admitted freeman Of the Colony from South Kingstown. In 1748 he was Clerk of the Council. After 174.2 his name appears several times in the Colonial Records, not as a member of the General Assembly, but as a petitioner on various matters that seemedto demand reform.

In 1769, “Thomas Steere, Ephraim Congdon, William Redwood, Joseph Cong— don and Thomas Hazard, son Of Robert, in behalf, and by appointment Of the Quarterly Meeting of Friends, held at Portsmouth, on Rhode Island, in October last, preferred a petition to this Assembly, and, for the reason therein assigned, prayed this Assembly to pass an act to prevent the selling Of liquors, and the playing at games, &c., on the days and near the place where the General Meeting Of Friends is annually held for religious worship ; and the said petition being duly considered, “It is voted and resolved, that the same be, and hereby is granted, and the bill presented with said petition, pass into an act of this Assembly.”

In 1764, he, with about ﬁfty Others, among them being the most prominent

1 R. 1. Col. Rec., vol. vi, p. 578. men