96 Tbe HAZARD FAMILY 
     
    
   
   
    
     §458. EDWARD HAZARD, 6 (Mayor George, 5; Governor George, 4; 
     
     Colonel George, 3 ; Robert, 2; Thomas, 1), was born about the year 174.6. He 
     
     graduated from either Princeton or Rhode Island College (Brown University). 
     
     After he left college, he was for a number of years a clerk in the store of Aaron 
     
     Lopez, in Newport. His father left him the farm now known as the Foddering 
     
     Place,in South Kingstown; this estate was squandered away in his over—indulgence 
     
     to an intemperate son. When his estate was gone, he moved from Newport to South 
     
     Kingstown, and, with his wife and son, lived in the house now owned and occu— 
     
     pied by the heirs of the late Nicholas Northup, on the old Kingston road. He 
     
     brought, with his family, some of the elegant furniture that once adorned his New— 
     
     port house; also three portraits by Copley, of the Hon. Thomas Cranston, his 
     
     wife and daughter. Mr. Hazard became so much reduced in circumstances that 
     
     it was decided to remove him to the Town Asylum; but death kindly gave him 
     
     a narrow, but more honorable home. After his death, the fine old furniture was 
     
     sold at public auction, and many pieces are still to be seen in the town, showing 
     
     what the whole must have been. In some way the portraits escaped, and were 
     
     left in the house. Many years afterwards, as Doctor Johnson, of Kingston, was 
     
     returning from an early visit, in passing the house his horse shied, and came 
     
     very near throwing him from his saddle. As this was a most unwonted pro— 
     
     ceeding of his staid beast, the Doctor dismounted and sought the cause, and, as 
     
     he said, he was startled almost as much as his horse had been, to see a stately 
     
     dame gazing at him from a canvas. The family had set the portrait outside their 
     
     door, to be washed off by the rain, as there had been a slight summer shower. 
     
     It was commonly used for a fire—board. Doctor Johnson, on his return home, 
     
     went to see his old friend, Wilkins Updike, to recount the experience of the 
     
     morning. Mr. Updike, who knew that such portraits were in existence, sent his 
     
     daughter Mary to examine these, and prove their identity. The woman of the 
     
     house was glad to be rid of the troublesome things, and was very willing to ac— 
     
     cept Miss Updike’s offer to relieve her of the care of them. One was found in 
     
     a chamber, pushed under the bed. As Thomas Cranston Hazard, son of Ed— 
     
     ward, was at that time living in Voluntown, Connecticut, in great poverty, Mr. 
     
     Updike went to see him, and telling him what he had done about the portraits, 
     
     asked him to sell them to him, which he gladly did. 
     
    

    
     Edward Hazard married, May, 1770, Sarah, daughter of Hon. Thomas Cranston, 
     
     and great—granddaughter of Governor Samuel Cranston, of Newport, Rhode 
     
     Island. She died June 6, I 821, aged seventy—two years. He died March 22, I 830. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     921. THOMAS CRANSTON HAZARD. He graduated from Rhode Island College in 1792. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     § 460. SARAH HAZARD, 6 (Mayor George, 5; Governor George, 4. ; 
     
     Colonel George, 3 ; Robert,2 ; Thomas, I), was born in 1750; she was baptized in 
     
     17 51 ; she married, first, April 18, 177 5, Captain Daniel Gardiner, son of Nathan 
     
    

    
     - Gardiner;