4.6 Tfle HAZARD FAMILY

active part in actual warfare, but he was obliged to leave his family, and flee to New York, then in possession of the British. His property was confiscated; he being the only member of the family who sufi‘ered in this way.x The others who were attainted, after a little discipline and a few months’ absence from home, made their peace with the Colony, and were restored to their civil rights.

“Virginia Tom " was of too strong a build and too dominant a nature to yield his firm convictions to a matter of security to his person and estate. Even after the war was over, and he was offered free pardon and restoration of his property, he refused to accept either, at the price of submission. However, the Colony was most kind and gentle to her high—spirited children, and restored all his estate to his wife and children after the close of the war. His adopted mother proved her— selfbut a step—mother, for of all the thousand acres of land granted to him in Ile S. Jean,“ now Prince Edward Island, but a small part, if any, came into his possession. A great—grandson says: “ As far as can be ascertained at present, he never profited by any grants of land in this Island, made to him as a loyalist.” Very little is known of his life after he went to Prince Edward Island, in 1786: shortly after his arrival there he is found filling some minor public oH'ices; also at an election in 1787, he was returned as a member of the House of Assembly on both opposing lists. He was peculiar in being the only person having that honor. A great—grandson who furnishes this information adds, “I think that election was set aside as void. I have not yet ascertained whether or not he ever sat in the House.”

There is no record of office—holding while an inhabitant of the Colony of Rhode Island. His name first occurs in the Colonial Records in 1760, when he and Henry Wall of North Kingstown petitioned the General Assembly, “and represent- ed that they, at their own costs and chargeS, equipped a private ship of war, against His Majesty’s enemies, under the command of Captain Abel Michiner; that the said ship, in her cruise, took a vessel belonging to the subjects of the French king, who are now prisoners of war, in Newport aforesaid, and supported at the sole expense of the petitioners ; whereupon they prayed that they be per- mitted to fit out and send avessel with a flag of truce, % Q to carry the aforesaid eleven Frenchmen to the West m %%c Indies, and there deliver them unto the commander

in chiefof such port or place, as they shall send to.” 3 This petition was granted, “ provided that they cause so many English prisoners to be brought back into New— port as the vessel will carry; provided, also, that the vessel to be sent, be under the same regulations and restrictions with others going to the colonies, ports, or harbors of the enemy, with a flag of truce.” 4

Thomas Hazard married, about I746, Mary Preeson, or Preston, Bowdoin,

daughter of Peter Bowdoin of Virginia. Pierre Baudouin, “who came to America in 1686, was one of the Baudouin

I R. I. Col. Rec., vol. ix., p. 530. 2 The I]: 5. 7mm, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ceded by France to England in 1764. Its name was changed to Prince

Edward Island in 1798. 3 Col. Rec., vol. vi., p. 252. ‘ Col. Rec., vol. vi., p. 262.

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