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     Gardiner; he was a sea-captain, and on one of his visits to his home, his vessel 
     
     being in port, he was drowned while fishing from the rocks on the shore; his 
     
     body was recovered, and Doctor Jonathan Easton was called on the inquest; he 
     
     took with him George Hazard, then a medical student in his office. The hand— 
     
     some young student succeeded so well in comforting the widow that she gave 
     
     him her heart, her hand, and her three children. She was ten years older than 
     
     her husband, but possibly more beautiful at forty than at eighteen. They were 
     
     married in October, 1790. She had no children by her second husband. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     922. FRANCES GARDINER; married, April, 1800, 570/171 Hazard, son of fab” and Sara/7 (Gardiner) 
     
     Hazard,- married, 2d, his brother, Nathan C. Hazard. 
     
    
   
   
    
     923. MALBONE GARDINER. 
     
     924.. NILEs GARDINER. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 461. GEORGE W. HAZARD, 6 (Mayor George, 5; Governor George, 4; 
     
     Colonel George, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, I), was born March 30, 1758; he died 
     
     November 6, 1834. He was unlike the old type of the family in characteristics 
     
     and in physical development. He was scarcely five feet four inches in height, yet 
     
     extremely agile 1n movement. He was called “Crazy George,n because of his 
     
     many eccentricities. He used to say: “ My father was a money—getting man, he 
     
     raked the money in, and I can pitchfork it out faster than he raked it in, —— 
     
     rather an ignoble ambition. He entered college quite young and was to be edu— 
     
     cated like his brothers, but hostilities commencing between the Colonies and the 
     
     Mother Country soon after he had entered, he ran away and joined the army, 
     
     saying that he much preferred “ following the God of War to courting the Muses.” 
     
     It can not be ascertained now which college had the privilege of erasing his name 
     
     from its books; by one authority it was Princeton, by another Rhode Island 
     
     College, but one fact that he used often to relate, ought to give the name of the 
     
     College. A daughter of the President entered on a full college course the same 
     
     year, and was graduated with honors, possibly not publicly. A man of unques— 
     
     tioned veracity, now living (I 893), who was in his early days a shoemaker, relates 
     
     that one morning Mr. Hazard came into his shop and ordered a pair of boots, 
     
     “Fine boots,” he said, “nothing on the common order, for I wish them to be 
     
     buried in.” He said that they must be finished and delivered on a certain day, 
     
     as he was to be buried on that day. The man laughingly promised that they should 
     
     be ready, and entered the order on his books with the stipulated time of delivery. 
     
     On the day and date, as agreed, the boots were delivered, and “ Crazy George ’ 
     
     was buried. Perhaps the boots were buried with him, but on this point history 
     
     is silent. This Is one of those curious coincidences that suggests nothing and 
     
     proves nothing, but is for a moment startling. 
     
    

    
     He married Martha, daughter of Christopher and Martha (Perry) Babcock. 
     
     She was a cousin to her husband, but in this case not quite as nearly related as 
     
    
   
   
    
     usual, although the connection was double. 
     
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