5 6 766 HAZARD FAMILY 
     
    
   
   
    
     complexion, and (tradition says) an uncommonly handsome man. His sons in— 
     
     herited his beauty , one son, William, was wont to say jokingly, when reproached 
     
     by his gentle mother for his dislike for manual labor, “ My beauty must make my 
     
     fortune, mother.” Whether it was his beauty or merit 13 not known, but he did 
     
     find awife and a fair one in one of the Southern States, with an estate and fortune. 
     
     Carder Hazard 3 life as a country gentleman gave him few opportunities for 1n— 
     
     tercourse with his intellectual superlors, but 1n his frequent visits to “Town," 
     
     as Newport was called 1n old times, in his ofiicial capacity and as a guest of his 
     
     brother, Mayor George Hazard, he met many gifted men. In this intercourse, 
     
     when subjects were broached with which he was not familiar, having the true 
     
     spirit of the family, he rarely ever asked a question, but, following the advice of 
     
     S. Paul to women, kept silent. Other members of the Hazard family left larger 
     
     fortunes and more land to be divided amongst their children, but none of them 
     
     left a name ofsweeter savor. 
     
    

    
     His death was caused by a fall from a chair, upon which he had mounted in order 
     
     to take a book from the top of the bookcase. He was at the house of his son, 
     
     Doctor George Hazard, at the time, and died there. 
     
    

    
     An obituary notice, published in the Providence Gazette, December I, 1792, ex— 
     
     presses the public sentiment of one hundred years ago : —- 
     
    

    
     “ Last Sunday departed this life, at South Kingstown, in the 59th year of his age, 
     
     Honorable Carder Hazard, Esq. one of the Judges of the Superior Court of this 
     
     State. In political life he exhibited the honest citizen and uprightJiudge; subject 
     
     to laws, he reverenced them, and invested with power, he executed it without 1n- 
     
     trigue, and without a View of self 1nterest. 
     
    

    
     In social Life the Goodness of his Heart and Simplicity of his Manners were 
     
     peculiarly agreeable —— but Death has closed his labours! and the Pity of that 
     
     Death has evidenced the Innocence of his Life. With that of the Public, his par— 
     
     ticular Friends have united their own Sorrow.” 
     
    

    
     Judge Carder Hazard married first, September 23, 1756, Alice, daughter of Rob- 
     
     ert and Thankful (Ball) Hull. She was born September 26,1739, and died July 
     
     I, 1760, in the 21st year ofher age. The inscription on her monument reads. 
     
     “In Memory of| Alice, the wife of Carder Hazard [ who died I July Ist,176o, 
     
     in the 21st year of her age. I She was a kind wife, a tender parent, and worthy 
     
     friend.” 
     
    

    
     He married, second, March 5, 1761, Alice Hazard, daughter of Colonel Thomas 
     
     Hazard. They were married by the Reverend Samuel Fayerweather, who was 
     
     afterwards Hazard’s brother—in—law. History speaks of her as a fitting helpmeet 
     
     to her husband. When she felt her stay on earth was short, she confided the care 
     
     of her little twin daughters to her stepson, saying, “I only ask you to bejust as 
     
     kind to them as I have been to you. She died January 13, I793. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN OF FIRST MARRIAGE 
     
     467. ROBERT HULL HAZARD, born April 10, I758. 
     
     468. PETER BOURS HAZARD, born Dec. 5, I759; died May ‘5’ 18°7- 
     
     CHILDREN