FIFTH GENERATION 53 
     
     § 230. GEORGE HAZARD, 5 (Governor George, 4; George, 3; Robert, 2; 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thomas, I), was born, according to the South Kingstown records, on June 15, 
     
     1724; but his tombstone in Newport is reported as inscribed June 13, 1721, which 
     
     is undoubtedly an error. There is nothing more bewildering to an earnest searcher 
     
     after truth than a gravestone record, for it is an exception if one finds it agreeing 
     
     with town and church records. George Hazard was admitted freeman In 1745. 
     
     Early In life he settled 1n Newport, and was a merchant there. In 1750 he was 
     
     baptized in the church at Newport, and, as early as 1756, his name appears in 
     
     the Colonial records as filling some important offices. He was almost constantly 
     
     a member of the General Assembly. In 1764, he was one of a committee on 
     
     paper money , in 1766, he was Chief— —Justice of the Court of Common Pleas; 
     
     later he resigned this position, and was chosen Mayor of the City of Newport, 
     
     under its first city charter. He was one of the incorporators of the Rhode Island 
     
     College, now Brown University; also one of the trustees. In 1766 he was one 
     
     ofa committee appointed to prepare an humble address of thanks to His Majesty 
     
     for giving his royal assent to the bill for repealing the Stamp A&.2 He died in 
     
     Newport, April 1 I, 1797, and was buried in the Common Ground. The inscrip— 
     
     tion on his tombstone reads : — 
     
    

    
     “Sacred I to the memory ofI the Hon. George Hazard, Esq., I who was born 
     
     June 13, 1721, I and died August the 11th, 179 7. I Almost Forty years of his 
     
     Life I were spent I 1n the service ofhis Country, 9] Without Ambition I and with— 
     
     out the hope of Reward I He accepted the various 8: important oflices of I Legis— 
     
     lator, Judge 8: Mayor of Newport I with diflidence, I and executed them with 
     
     abilit 
     
    

    
     Maydrr George Hazard, as he is called by his descendants and by others, mar- 
     
     ried, November 24, 1745, Martha, daughter of George and Abigail (Church) 
     
     Wanton. She and her mother Abigail are mentioned in her great—uncle Jahleel 
     
     Brenton’s will, and received valuable legacies of land in South Kingstown, New— 
     
     port, and Boston. She died in March, 1763. He married, second, on July 28, 
     
     1769, Jane Tweedy. 
     
    

    
     CHILDREN OF FIRST MARRIAGE 
     
    

    
     458. EDWARD HAZARD, born (tirta) 1746; married Sara/J Cramtm. 
     
    

    
     459. ABIGAIL HAZARD, born (zirra) I748; married, July 1, I774, 705” C/Jamn'ag. 
     
    

    
     46o. SARAH HAZARD, born 1751. She was baptizedin that year. She married, Ist, Capt. Daniel Gardi- 
     
    
   
   
    
     ner; 2d, Dr. George Hazard, her first cousin, Oct. 4, I790. 
     
     461. GEORGE HAZARD, born March 30, 1758; married Martha Baku/I. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN or SECOND MARRIAGE 
     
    

    
     462. ELIZABETH HAZARD, born 1771; died Jan. 12, I788. 
     
    

    
     463. SOPHIA FREELOVE HAZARD, died 1790. 
     
    

    
     464. CARDER HAZARD, born 1774; married Sarah Caggerljall; died March 18, I823. 
     
     465. NATHANIEL HAZARD, born 1776; married Sarah Falar; died Dec. 17, 1820. 
     
     466. WILLIAM TWEEDY HAZARD, born 1777; died Oct. 26, I794. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     1 Col. Rec., vol. vi., p. 328. 2 Col. Rec., vol. vi., p. 493. 
     
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