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was given to George Hazard some time before his father’s death, in 174.6, it is possible, and probable, that he built the fine old house still standing, and occu- pied by the present owner. As far as one can judge from tradition and scanty documentary evidence, this line of the family has also retained, in a greater meas— ure than other lines, the strongly marked characteristics peculiar to the earlier Hazard family. Through all this line one can trace a strong sense of justice, as shown 1n the equal distribution of property, and the care of the orphans of the family, and can perceive a pride of ancestry in many of the descendants at the present day, and an independence of spirit that unwillingly brooks opposition, and as unwillingly submits to an injustice.

Thomas Hazard’s public life seems to have been confined to a few years’ service in the General Assembly. He was called Thomas G. Hazard to distinguish him from others of the same name. It was equivalent to calling him Thomas, son of George. His name was entered on the town records without the G.; also his father in his will does not use the G.

There is a well supported tradition in the family, that Thomas Hazard’s estate, being in some way jeopardized, his sister Mary, who was eleven years older than her brother, went into court herself to attend to his interests. It is also said that this same Molly made several journeys to Philadelphia on horseback.

He married Mary, daughter of Jonathan and Ruth (Coggeshall) Easton ; she was his second cousin. She was born May 20, 174.3, and died November 26,

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CHILDREN

393. GEORGE PLACE HAZARD, born 1763; died April 16, I839.

394. JONATHAN EASTON HAZARD, born 1764; died Jan. 31, 1849.

395. THOMAS G. HAZARD, married Patieme Bora’m.

396. BENJAMIN HAZARD, born Sept. 9, 1774; married, Oct. 28, 1807, Harriet Lyman.

397. MARY HAZARD.

398. ENOCH HAZARD, married, Sept., 1804., Mary, daughter of Nitbo/a: Editor].

399. JOHN ALFRED HAZARD, died July 21, 1799. He was purser on the U. S. Frigate “General Greene.”

400. RUTH HAZARD, died Feb. 8, 1806.

§2Io. HANNAH HAZARD, 5 (Benjamin, 4; Thomas, 3 ; Robert, 2; Thom— as, I), was born about 1744. She died May 8, 1801 ; she married, July 7, 1771, James Tanner. He died September 6, I778.

CHILD 401. JAMES TANNER.

§ 214- THOMAS HAZARD, 5, “ Nailor Tom ” (Benjamin, 4.; Thomas, 3; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I),was born January 23, 1756 ; he died in Westerly, Rhode Island, September 28, 1845. He was the second son of his father of this name, for the Portsmouth records show that a Thomas, son of Benjamin Hazard, was born December 25, 1742. After his marriage,-——before which he had led

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