64. T/ze HAZARD FAMILY 
     
    
   
   
    
     1776. There are no records in proof of this. But he did adhere to the cause of 
     
    

    
     the Crown, and was for a time banished from his home for giving assistance and 
     
    

    
     support to the enemy. He was, with his family, sent, not exactly to Coventry, 
     
    

    
     but to the next town, Scituate, where several of the Point Judith families were 
     
    

    
     dispatched to keep him company. The British paid good gold for fat cattle and 
     
    

    
     provisions, and Point Judith was easy ofaccess, — as easy as the conscience that 
     
    

    
     made loyalty a fair—sounding word, whether it meant loyalty tO England or 
     
    

    
     America. However, the stringent measures adopted by the Colony soon brought 
     
    

    
     its truant sons to a better understanding, for in 1779, “ Stephen Hazard, Stephen 
     
    

    
     Hazard, Jr., Samuel Hazard, Jeremiah Hazard, son of Robert, and the wife of 
     
    

    
     said Jeremiah, and Christopher Robinson, have prayed this Assembly to be 
     
    

    
     heard upon the charges brought against them,” &c.‘ This petition was heard, 
     
    

    
     granted, and permission given for them to return to their homes, they giving 
     
    

    
     their paroles.2 Samuel Hazard, Jeremiah Hazard, son of Jeffrey, and Thomas 
     
    

    
     Hazard, son of Jeremiah, were also of this band of martyrs. 
     
    

    
     Stephen Hazard married, April 29, 17 59, Sarah, daughter of Deputy—Governor 
     
    

    
     Jonathan Nichols, and granddaughter of Deputy—Governor Jonathan Nichols, 
     
    

    
     there being two Governors of the name, father and son. She was born in 1739. 
     
    

    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     507. STEPHEN HAZARD, born Sept. 12, 1760; died March 17, 1788. 
     
    

    
     508. JONATHAN NICHOLS HAZARD, born Oct. 18, 1761; married, May 15, 1785, Mary, daughter 
     
     of Sylwerter and [Iliee (Perry) Kalil/rm. 
     
    

    
     509. SARAH HAZARD, born July 14, 1763 ; died June 17, 1793. 
     
    

    
     510. MARY HAZARD, born Sept. 18, 1764; married Raaert Ballot}; she died Aug. 26, 1851. 
     
    

    
     511. ELIZABETH HAZARD, born April 10, 1767 ; died 1820; married Gidearz Hazard, son of Samuel 
     
     Hazard. For children, see Gideon Hazard, No. 546. 
     
    

    
     512. NICHOLS HAZARD, born March 20, 1770; died May 13, 1848; married Pbele Ant/Jolly. 
     
    

    
     513. MARTHA HAZARD, born March 20, 1774; married, April 4, 1804, Benjamin Hazard, son of 
     
     Samuel Hazard. For children, see Beajamifl Hazard, N0. 545. 
     
    

    
     514.. JOSEPH HAZARD, born March 22, 1775'; died April I, 1776. 
     
    
   
   
    
     515. APLIN HAZARD, born July 20, 1777; died Jan. 20, I778. 
     
     516. JOHN HAZARD, born Dec. 10, 1778; died Jan., 1805. He was a sea-captain. 
     
    
   
   
    
     §259. MARY HAZARD, 5 (Stephen, 4; Stephen, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, 1), 
     
     was born September 18, 1725 ; she married, August 30, 1752, John Potter, son of 
     
     Ichabod and Sarah (Robinson) Potter. There is an uncertainty aboutthe children 
     
     of Mary and John Potter, for the Potter Genealogy gives the children mentioned 
     
     below as a sister’s, but the will of John Potter, who married her sister, does not 
     
     mention them. Their grandmother, widow of Stephen Hazard, in her will, dated 
     
     one year after the death of John Potter, calls these children her grandchildren. 
     
     There were possibly sons, but there is no record of them. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN. 
     
     517. ABIGAIL POTTER, born July 20, 1756; died March 1, 1784; married Rafa: Wheeler. 
     
    
   
   
    
     518. SARAH POTTER, born April 12, 1762; died May 9, I787. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I Col. Ree, vol. viii. p. 594. “Ibid, p. 601. 
     
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