48 7&8 HAZARD FAMILY

§217. MARY HAZARD, 5 (Jonathan, 4; Thomas, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born March 24, 1737 , she married in 1762, Colonel Charles Dyre. In 1775 he was commissioned Major of militia for King s County, 1n the Colony of Rhode Island; in 1776 he was promoted to Colonel, which position he held until the close of the war, during all the time of which he was in active service.

CHILDREN

424. BOWDOIN DYRE.

425. CHARLES DYRE.

426. HAZARD DYRE.

427. CHRISTOPHER CORNWALLIs DYRE, married 428. ISABEL DYRE, married P0203].

429. MARY DYRE, married Forter.

430. ABIGAIL DYRE, born July 14, 1766; married, Sept. 14, 1783, Arthur Ay/wwortb.

§ 221. JONATHAN HAZARD, 5, “ Beau Jonathan” (Jonathan, 4; Thomas 3 ; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born probably about 1744, as he was the last child mentioned in his father’s will ; he died some time after I 824, for he married a second wife after he was eighty years old. He was called “ Beau Jonathan ” be- cause of his fondness for dress and his courtly manners. Updike, in his Hir- tory of the Narragansett C/zurc/z, has so well given a sketch of his life, that we quote it entire.

“Jonathan Hazard took an early and decided stand in favor of liberty in the Revolutionary struggle. In 1776 he appeared in the General Assembly as a rep— resentative from Charlestown, and was eleéted paymaster of the Continental Battalion in 1777, and joined the army in New Jersey. In 1778 he was re—eleé‘ted a member of the General Assembly, and constituted one of the Council of War. He continued a member of the House most of the time during the Revolution. In 1787 he was elected by the people a delegate to the Confederated Congress. In 178 8 he was re—eleéted, and attended the old Congress as a delegate from this State. Mr. Hazard was a politician of great tact and talent, and one of the most effi— cient leaders of the Paper Money party, in 1786, and their ablest debater 1n the General Assembly. He beat down the opposition raised by the Hard Money, or mercantile party. He feelingly depicted the lowering distress of the times produced by the avaricious course of the mercantile party. He represented that, prompted by exorbitant profits, they had shipped to England, our late enemy, all the remaimng specie that could be obtained, to supply the country with fabrics which the war had exhausted; that the patriotism of the mercantile party was ' swallowed up by the lust of profit, and that the interest of money, by these sel- fish and avaricious speculations, had risen to twenty per cent per annum, and in some cases to four per cent per month; and that the paper money emission was the only measure of State policy to prevent civil commotion. He argued, like- wise, in favor of the safety of the em1ss1on: that it was guaranteed by land se— curity; that it was to be loaned on bond and mortgage of twice the value of the

amount borrowed, to be estimated by a committee under oath; that it was an ' emission

F orter.