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     goose had for years made her nest and raised her brood on a point of land that 
     
     made out into the pond, but after the raising of the dam, she had not been able 
     
     to find a dry spot for her nest, nor in fact was the point above water. In con— 
     
     nection with this the story continues: Thomas R. Hazard, son of Rowland, 
     
     was at that time paying his addresses to the beautiful and accomplished daughter 
     
     of Mr. Robinson; after the decision had been given and damages awarded and 
     
     paid, Thomas R. Hazard sought to renew his visits at “Cousin Robinson’s.” 
     
     His first remark, made possibly under some natural embarrassment, was most 
     
     unfortunate; for he said, “Well, Cousin Robinson, 
     
    

    
     thee has lost thy case ; ” -“ Yes,” was the dry ans— ”)4 
     
    

    
     wer, “and thee has lost thy bride.” flm 
     
     Thomas Hazard married, October 2, 17 83 
     
    

    
     Hannah Knowles, the daughter of Joseph a7nd3 Bathsheba (Seager) Knowles. 
     
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     402. BENJAMIN HAZARD, born Dec. 4, 1784; married 704mm Carr, May 12, I814. 
     
    

    
     403. THOMAS HAZARD, born May 8, 1787; married Rut/J Carpenter, March 13, 1714.. 
     
    

    
     404. HANNAH HAZARD, born Dec. 14, 1791; died unmarried. 
     
    
   
   
    
     405. ISAAC SENTER HAZARD, born March 27, 1793; died March 29, I795. 
     
     406. ISAAC SENTER HAZARD, born May 10, 1796; died May II, I796.’ 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 215. THOMAS HAZARD, 5, “ Virginia Tom” (Jonathan, 4.; Thomas, 3; 
     
     Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born February 22, 1727; he died April 27, 1804. 
     
     His father gave to him three hundred acres in Boston Neck, now known as the 
     
     Governor Brown farm, but it is probable that he did not live there for any length 
     
     of time. He was too ambitious to be long content with the simple, uneventful 
     
     life of a farmer; building ships to carry the products of his farms to distant mar— 
     
     kets, had little attraction for a man Who could build fast—sailing privateers at his 
     
     own shipyard, to chase the enemies of the King, and recover from them their ill— 
     
     gotten gains. A cargo of rum to be exchanged for molasses had not as pleasant a 
     
     savour, and was not as profitable as the sweet—smelling spices, fragant teas, or other 
     
     luxuries that his ships brought back from their long voyages. 
     
    

    
     There are no records to prove that he ever became a large landholder in the 
     
     Narragansett country. His Boston Neck farm he did retain, certainly until 1760, 
     
     when his first wife Was buried there. When a part of this farm was sold a few years 
     
     ago, descendants of Thomas and this wife reverently moved the mouldering remains 
     
     to the Boston Neck burying— ground of Wilkins Updike, whose wife (a daughter 
     
     of Walter Watson) was a granddaughter of‘ ‘Virginia Tom.” Soon after Thomas 
     
     Hazard 3 marriage he went to Newport, where he became a successful mer— 
     
     chant, making a large fortune. His son, William Hazard, stated before the 
     
     Loyalist Commissioners, in 1833, that his father had an estate of £20,000 con— 
     
     fiscated in the United States. He was, like the greater number of the Hazard fa— 
     
     mily of his generation, strongly conservative, and adhered to the cause of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     King during the struggle for independence. It is not known that he took an 
     
     active