132 . Tbe HAZARD FAMILY 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I327. JONATHAN MASON Baooxs, born Sept. 12, 1844; died March, 1863. 
     
     I328. MARY ELIZABETH BROOKS, born April 6, 1847; married Lieut. War/Jam Maynard. 
     
     1329. PEYTON HAZARD BROOKS, born Sept. 26, 1850. 
     
    
   
   
    
     § 751. MARGARET LYMAN HAZARD, 7 (Benjamin, 6; Thomas, 5; 
     
     George, 4; Thomas, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, 1), was born April 8, 1817; she 
     
     married, September 8, I 841, General Isaac Ingalls Stevens, United States Army. 
     
     Major—General Isaac Ingalls Stevens was born in North Andover, Massachu- 
     
     setts, on the 15th of March, 1818. In 1835, at the age of seventeen, he entered 
     
     the Military Academy at West Point. Here he distinguished himself, and in I 839 
     
     he graduated at the head of his class. He was appointed a second lieutenant in 
     
     the Corps of Engineers in the United States Army, and promoted to the rank 
     
     of first lieutenant, July Ist, 1840. 
     
    

    
     From August, 1839, to September, 1841, Lieutenant Stevens was employed as 
     
     an assistant at Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island. From September, 1 841, to 
     
     March, 1843, he had charge of the Government works at New Bedford. In 
     
     March, 1843, he was placed in charge of those at Portland, Maine, and Ports— 
     
     mouth, New Hampshire, and also of Fort Knox, at the narrows of Penobscot 
     
     river. Of these works he was in charge until December, 1846, when ordered to 
     
     join General Scott’s army at Brazos. He served on the staff of General Scott, 
     
     from the investment of Vera Cruz to the capture of the City of Mexico. He was 
     
     at the siege of Vera Cruz and at the battles of Contreras, Cherubusco, Molino del 
     
     Rey, Chepultepec, and the capture of the City of Mexico. At the San Cosmo 
     
     gate he was severely wounded. For his gallant conduct in the battles of Contreras 
     
     and Cherubusco, he was breveted captain, and for his bravery at the battle of 
     
     Chepultepec, which resulted in the taking of the city, he was breveted major. 
     
     Having been disabled by his wound, he returned to the United States in January, 
     
     1848, and resumed charge of the works in Maine and New Hampshire. 
     
    

    
     In September, 1849, Major Stevens accepted the position of assistant in charge 
     
     of the office of the United States Coast Survey, in Washington, and there con— 
     
     tinued on duty until March, 1853. He was a warm friend of President Pierce, 
     
     and was by him, soon after his inauguration, appointed governor of the new 
     
     territory of Washington. As governor of that territory, he was ex—oficz'o superin— 
     
     tendent of Indian affairs; and at the same time, having volunteered for the ser— 
     
     vice, he was placed in charge of the exploration and survey of the northern route 
     
     for a railroad to the Pacific. He determined the entire feasibility of the route for 
     
     _a railroad, and by his surveys established the practicability of navigating the ' 
     
     Upper Missouri and Columbia River by steamers. As Indian Superintendent his 
     
     labors were very successful. From December, 1854, to July, I855, he negotiated 
     
     treaties of cession of lands with some twenty—two out of the twenty—five thousand 
     
     Indians of the territory, and extinguished the Indian title to more than one hun— 
     
     dred thousand square miles of territory. His Indian policy‘was one of great 
     
     beneficence to the Indians. He guarded their rights most carefully, provided for 
     
     their civilization, and guaranteed to them homesteads on their assuming the 
     
    
   
   
    
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