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1944. SUSAN JEANNETTE CONGDON, born July 22, 1840; married Law]! 0. Garrett. 1945. GEORGE WHITFIELD CONGDON, born March 25, 1847.

§ 1082. SUSAN OATLEY, 7 (Mary Hazard, 6; Stephen, 5 ; Thomas,4; Ste— phen, 3 ; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born May 2, 1803; she married, May 21, 1821, Davis Mumford, who lived but a few years after his marriage. She mar— ried, second, Isaac T. Hopkins, January 13, 1828. She is now living (January 18, 1894).

CHILDREN or FIRST MARRIAGE

1946. MARY ELIZA MUMFORD, born May 26, 1822; married, Oct. 18, 1841, 70mph B. Potter.

She died March 12, 1885. 1947. HARRIET MUMFORD, born Aug. 1, 1824; died Oct., 1824.

CHILDREN OF SECOND MARRIAGE

1948. SARAH A. HOPKINS, born Oct. 16, 1828; died July 13, 1841.

1949. LOUISA W. HOPKINS, born March I, 1830; died June 22, 1841.

1950. JOHN J. HOPKINS, born Jan. 14, 1833; he married, Jan. 22, 1873, Mart/M C. Greene. 1951. SusAN LOUISA HOPKINS, born Oct. 30, 1841; married, Oct. 17, 1862, jab): S. Potter.

§ 1084. SAMUEL RODMAN, 7 (Elizabeth Hazard, 6; Stephen, 5; Thomas, 4; Stephen, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, I), was born in South Kingstown, May 3, 1800. Both in personal appearance and in character he was said to resemble his great-grandfather, Samuel Rodman, while he inherited from his mother a strain of the Hazard blood, and with it the will and energy necessary to suc— cess. He was born in the house that his great—uncle, William Rodman, built, and in the great west chamber that had been made historic as being also the birthplace of Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of Lake Erie.

About 1830 he leased the Peacedale mills from Isaac Hazard, and began manu— facturing; and in 1835, with Attmore Robinson, he bought the traé‘t of land with the wharf at Narragansett Pier, since called the “ Old Pier,” where a break— water was afterwards built. Its builders, like those, as it is said, of the second Eddy stone lightho,use defied Almighty God to overthrow the work; but it was partly destroyed In the first great storm after its completion During the prog- ress of the work on the breakwater, an accomplished French engineer, on ex— amining it, said that It was bui t on a wrong principle, and that the dock would fill with sand. Time has proved the truth of this prediction, for children now play on the sands where was once from fifteen to twenty feet of water.

In 1838, Samuel Rodman sold his rights in the “ Pier” property, and bought of Thomas R. Hazard “one hundred and twenty-five or thirty” acres in the village of Rocky Brook; and in the same year he built the homestead, where seven of his children were born. There were on the property at the time four small houses, and a small mill containing one or two sets of machinery. In this mill he began the manufacture Ofwoolen goods. During the following year (1839) he bought thirty acres, on a part of which stood the old Rodman mansion-house, and a woolen mill. In I 853 he bought thirty acres more with several houses and

a woolen mill and about the same time he added to his own farm the Freeman Watson