68 The HAZARD FAMILY

lege 1n 1755. Captain James Babcock distinguished himself in the English army during the French War, and he was also with General Wolfe at the taking of Louisburg. Soon after the close of the war, he, with his family, removed to Bos— ton, where he engaged in business. In 1767, he was lost on his passage from Stonington to Boston.

CHILDREN 541. ESTHER BABCOCK, born June 23, 1759; married Nathan Brand, of Stonington, Conn.

542. JONATHAN BABCOCK, born May 30, 1762; married, Jan. 29, I795, Raih, daughter of Benja- min and Hannah (Ni/er) Radrnan, of South Kingstown.

543. ROBERT BABCOCK, born Dec. 18, 1763; married, May 11, 1793, Mary, daughter of Stephen Hazard. He died Feb. 11, 1848.

544. HANNAH BABCOCK, born Feb. 11, 1768; unmarried.

§ 267. SAMUEL HAZARD, 5 (Robert, 4; Stephen, 3 ; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born about 1739; he was admitted freeman from South Kingstown in 1760. He married, May 3, 1763, Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Perry, who died December 12,1772. He married, second, Susannah Perry, sister to his first wife. They were married March 5, 1774. He married, third, December 11,1785, Eliz— abeth, daughter of Deputy~Governor Jonathan Nichols. She died April 4, 1815, at the house of her nephew, Robert Hazard, in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Samuel Hazard died in 1787.

CHILDREN OF FIRST MARRIAGE

545. BENJAMIN HAZARD, born March II, 1764; died July 12, 1849; married, April 4, 1804, Martha, daughter of “ Lang Stephan ” Hazard.

546. GIDEON HAZARD, born Nov. 25, 1765; died April, 1806; married Elizahzth, daughter of

“Long Stephan” Hazard; she died Nov. 21, 1818.

547. ESTHER HAZARD, born Oct. 5, 1767. 548. ELIZABETH HAZARD, born Dec. 2, 1769; married, Nov., 1798, Athertan Waler; died July

25, 1801. 549. JOSEPH STANTON HAZARD, born March 7, 1772; died in Havana while unloading his vessel.

CHILDREN OF SECOND MARRIAGE 55o. SAMUEL HAZARD, born Oct. 10, 1776 ; died June 22, 1836, in Middleport Centre, New York.

551. JAMES HAZARD, born Aug. 27, I778.

552. SUSANNAH HAZARD, born Aug. 21, 1780; died in South Kingstown, 1817. 553. PATRICK HAZARD, born May 10, 1782; died in 1805.

‘554. JOSHUA HAZARD, born Dec. 21, 1784; died in infancy.

CHILDREN OF THIRD MARRIAGE

555. HENRY HAZARD. 556. THOMAS HAZARD. These two last may have been twins. They were both mentioned in their

father’s will.

§27o. STANTON HAZARD, 5(Governor Robert, 4; Stephen, 3; Robert,

Thomas, I), was born January 8, 1743; he died at Honduras In 1789. His death was caused by a wound from a sword, given by an adversary In a duel, in which he killed his opponent. He was a captain in the British Navy. His inter—

esting portrait (here reproduced), in the dress of a post—captain, is now in the pos- sessmn