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     road at one time in close proximity to each other, straggling on to the extent of 
     
     nearly halfa mile. The drivers usually stopped over night at the old Brown house, 
     
     where George and Rowland Brown kept a tavern.” 
     
    

    
     The above account of the Wilson house and the old Tower Hill is taken, by per— 
     
     mission, from the papers of Mr. James Wilson, a grandson of Colonel John Wil— 
     
     son. Mr. Wilson IS now (1895) approaching his ninetieth year. 
     
    

    
     Hannah Hazard, and the other daughters of Colonel Thomas Hazard, were well 
     
     educated and accomplished women for their day, when the women of the family 
     
     were considered educated if they could read and write. Their accomplishments 
     
     were Spinning and weaving. But Hannah could work in wax, making figures and 
     
     flowers that were very much admired. Some few of these pieces are treasured by 
     
     her descendants to this day, while the fingers that wrought them so deftly have 
     
    
   
   
    
     long been dust and ashes. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     493. JOHN WILSON, born July 24, 1763. 
     
     494. THOMAS HAZARD WILSON. 
     
    

    
     495. ROBERT ARNOLD WILSON. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 241. OLIVER HAZARD 5 (Oliver4; George 3 ; Robert 2; Thomas I) was 
     
     born March 30, I73 9. He lived in Jamestown, and kept a licensed tavern there. 
     
     His name is often found in the town records, as Councilman and otherwise. In 
     
     1762, he exhibited an account (that was allowed) {or £26 165. for seventeen din— 
     
     ners and one punch—bowl, said dinner being for the comfort of certain public men 
     
     on town—meeting day. He married Patience Greene, widow of Captain Samuel 
     
    
   
   
    
     Greene and daughter of Ebenezer and Patience (Gorton) Cook. She died July 9, 
     
     1809, aged eighty years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     496. MARY HAZARD, born March 15, 1762. 
     
    

    
     497. SAMUEL GREENE HAZARD, born Feb. 15, 1764; died April 4, 1765. 
     
     498—9. ELIZABETH HAZARD, born April 12, 1767. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 242. MERCY HAZARD 5 (Oliver4; George 3 ; Robert 2; Thomas I) was 
     
     born January 21, 1740; she died in 1810 ; she married, in 1755, Freeman Perry, 
     
     son of Benjamin and Susannah (Barber) Perry ; he was born January 23, 1733, and 
     
     died October 15, 1813. 
     
    

    
     He was a physician and surgeon, also a man active 1n the public business of the 
     
     town and Colony, holding from time to time several important positions. In 1780 
     
     he was appointed Chief—Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County 
     
     of Washington, which position he held until 1791. Freeman Perry’s home was 
     
     what is now commonly but erroneously, called “Commodore Perry’s birth- 
     
     place,” in Matunuck. In 1792, he gave a part of this, his homestead farm, to 
     
     his son Dr. Joshua Perry, and the next year he gave ten acres of the same farm 
     
     to his son Christopher Raymond Perry. By will, written in 1810, and proved in 
     
    
   
   
    
     I 8 I 5, he gave the remaining part of the farm,“with my mansion house where I now 
     
     live,”