5o Tbe HAZARD FAMILY

matters, than you are, and you have already, as well as myself, gone too far on that road. It is a pleasing thing while every thing moves with success and we are flying away before the. wind and the tide of prosperity, and every one that meets you will greet you with submission and reverence; but let it only be in the power of these very men that you have served most, to sacrifice you to their own advantage, and you will find there is not one in a thousand but would embrace the opportunity. I speak from experience. The people thatI have taken the most pains to serve have sacrificed me, as far as lay in their power. That is nothing new, it was ever so, and ever will be so. It is the greatest misfortune that is resident to man, that lack of resolution, stability, and integrity. Look back and read the history of the world, and you will find the greatest, and some of the best men in the world, have been brought to the block by traitorous companions. I hope you will profit by this little disappointment, and avoid thereby a greater mischief. All these disappointments are bitter, and of course dis- agreeable, but as they are suffered for our good, we ought to hear them with that manly fortitude that becomes great minds. I have been principal actor in three State revolutions, and if I was to show you the history you would not believe it until you paused, for I have been thrice sacrificed, once in the year 1790 and twice since, and although the authors have no thought that I am possessed of the means and instruments, I have them. I have not only the men’s names, but the rooms in the houses where it was agreed upon. Two were in the dead scenes of the night. Notwithstanding I have ever been the slave of my friends, I find when they think there is a prospect of selling an old friend for a new one, they embrace the opportunity. Look back on time, and point out the man that has been deep in politics in this State, and you will find he died poor, if not in actual distress, and at the close of life I imagine miserable. Reflect on this and write me an answer. In haste, from your well wirber,frima’ and ,éz'm'man, JON’N J. HAZARD.

Mr. Hazard moved to Verona, New York, late in life, and purchased a valuable estate there. He became a prominent man in his adopted State and town, and was much respeéted. He retained his elegance of manner even to his last days, marrying for the third time after he was eighty years old. He married, first, Patience, daughter of “ Stout ” Jeffrey Hazard ; she was his second cousin ; she died in South Kingstown, March 19, 1809, at the home of Dr .George Hazard, aged sixty—six years. He married, secondly, Hannah Brown; his third wife was Marian, daughter of Moses Gage. She survived him many years, and married, as third wife, James Parker. ‘ CHILDREN 431. JONATHAN J. HAZARD, married, Dec. 29, I781, Tat}! Bura’itk; died 1806. 432. GRIFFEN BARNEY HAZARD, born 1765; died 1822; married Mary Parker. 433. JOSEPH Hoxsrs HAZARD, born June 16, 1777; died Oct. 22, 1838; married, Jan. 21, 1808, Army W imam.

434. THOMAS JEFFERSON HAZARD, died aged twenty years. 435. SUSANNAH HAZARD (by one authority she is called MARY); married Rawland Champ/2'71.

436. ABIGAIL HAZARD, married, as third wife, Enari; Sherman.

§ 225. WILLIAM HAZARD, 5 (Caleb, 4 ; George, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I), was born April 12, 1721. He lived in Jamestown, where he kept a licensed tav—

ern. He represented his town in the General Assembly in I756,’57,’6o, ’62, as Deputy