I O4. Tfle HAZARD FAMILY 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     -town,—so reads the story; but he married, in 1784, and his first child was born 
     
     in the town. In June, 1798, he was appointed a Captain in the United States 
     
     Navy, to command the frigate General Greene, and was commissioned a cap- 
     
     tain March 1, 1799, to rank from the first date. He was discharged under the 
     
     Peace Establishment Act of April 3, 1801, and was subsequently Collector of 
     
     Internal Revenue for Newport, Bristol, etc., in Rhode Island. 
     
     In the Rlaade Island American, July 31, 1812, is this notice: “ Captain Christo— 
     
     pher R. Perry is appointed to succeed Captain Bainbridge as Superintendent of 
     
     the United States Navy Yard, at Charlestown, Massachusetts, the latter being 
     
     required to take command of the frigate Constellation, now refitting at Washing— 
     
     ton.” He married, August, 1784, Sarah Alexander. She came from Scotland in 
     
     Captain Christopher Perry’s vessel, and the acquaintance thus formed ripened 
     
     into love and marriage. Soon after the marriage they lived in the house of Wil— 
     
     liam Rodman, then but recently built,—a large, commodious house, still stand— 
     
     ing in the village of Rocky Brook. William Rodman was a bachelor, and lived 
     
     with them. He was a well—read, well-informed man, and excellent company, ex— 
     
     ceedingly quick at repartee ; but occasionally he was a little merry after dinner, 
     
     from the effeéts of good wine. On these somewhat rare occasions, Mrs. Perry 
     
     would place her hand on Mr. Rodman’s arm and say, very gently, “ William, I 
     
     think thee had better go to thy room for a little rest.” “William” always went 
     
     away as meekly as a lamb, with a parting bow to the ladies, and a merry twinkle 
     
     in his eyes. Christopher Perry’s first child, Oliver Hazard Perry, was born in this 
     
     house. 
     
     In 1798, Robert Rodman was married to Elizabth Hazard, and they also lived. 
     
     in their uncle’s house where their first child, Samuel, was born, in 1800. When 
     
     the child was a few days old, Captain Christopher Perry being at the house to 
     
     e “ Cousin Elizabeth,” and glancing round the room (the large west chamber), 
     
     said,“ My son Oliver was born in this room.’ 
     
     In 1793, his father gave Christopher Raymond Perry ten acres of his homestead 
     
     farm 1n Matunuck, and at his death the remaming part of the farm,‘ ‘where I 
     
     now live. ” It is possible that the family of Christopher Perry lived with his 
     
     father several years before he came into possession of the farm in 1813, as Com- 
     
     modore Oliver Hazard Perry always spoke of the place as his early home, and 
     
     of Judge William Peckham, who lived on the next farm, as his early playmate 
     
    
   
   
    
     and companion. 
     
    
   
   
    
     CHILDREN 
     
    

    
     978. OLIVER HAZARD PERRY, born Aug. 20, 1785; married, May 5, 1811, Elizaéetl: Cbamplin Maren. 
     
    

    
     979. RAYMOND PERRY, born Feb. 11, 1789 ; died March 2, 1826; married, May 16, 1814, Mary 
     
     Ann, daughter of 74mm DeWa/f‘e, of Bristol, Rhode Island; she married, Oct. 4, 1826, Gen. 
     
     W. H. Summer, of Massachusetts. Perry was a lieutenant in the United States Navy, and had 
     
     two sons and one daughter. 
     
    

    
     98o. SARAH WALLACE PERRY, born April 28, 1791 ; died Jan., 1851 ; unmarried. 
     
    

    
     981. MATHEW CALBRAITH PERRY, born in Newport, April 10, 1794.; died March 4., 1858; mar- 
     
     ried, Dec. 24, 1814, 7am, daughter of 701m Slide/l, of New York. 
     
    

    
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