Colonel Thomas Hazard

Colonel Thomas Hazard

Birth: March 30, 1704, Kingston, Washington, Rhode Island, USA

Death: circa 1787 (83), Rhode Island, USA
Father: Colonel George Hazard, died 1743

Mother: Penelope Arnold, daughter of Caleb and Abigail Arnold

Siblings:

• Abigail Hazard b. March 19, 1690, m Ebenezer Niles, son of Nathaniel and Sarah (Sands) Niles
• Robert Hazard b. Nov 3, 1694, died young
• Caleb Hazard b. Nov 4, 1697, m Abigail daughter of William Gardiner
• George Hazard b. Oct 9, 1700, married Sarah Carder
• Oliver Hazard, Sr. b. Sept 13, 1710, married Elizabeth Raymond

Married 11 Dec 1729

Wife: Alice Hull, daughter of Teddiman and Sarah Sands Hull

Children:

• Penelope Hazard b, 11 Feb 1730, South Kingstown, Rhode Island, m Judge William POTTER
• Hannah b. 5 Aug 1732 m Colonel John WILSON
• Sarah Hazard b. 27 Jan 1734 m George Place HAZARD
• Alice Hazard b. 30 Apr 1737; d. 13 Jan 1793, m Judge Carder HAZARD, her first cousin

Thomas Hazard married, December 11, 1739, Alice, daughter of Teddiman and Sarah (Sands) Hull; she died 1737.

"THOMAS HAZARD, 4 (George, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, 1), was born March 30, 1704, and died about 1787. He was Deputy in 1745, '48, '52, '53, '55, '56 ; in 1757 he was Assistant; in 1745 he was appointed Major, and in 1748, Colonel, by which title he is best known by his descendants. In 1725, he being then twenty-one years of age, his father, Colonel George Hazard, conveyed to him a " certain tract of land, being by estimation ten acres, be it more or less . . . with all Housings, Mills, Presses, Shears, and other things which may tend or belong to the Cloathing trade." This property was the fulling mill established by his father, Colonel George Hazard, in 1722-3, near what is now known as Moorsfield, at a place called Lawton's saw-mill. The land was a part of the homestead farm of Robert (2) Hazard. This whole farm of three hundred acres was given to Colonel Thomas by will, in 1743, and by him sold to John Rose in 1748. The residence of Colonel Thomas is not precisely known, although he was certainly living in Boston Neck in 1752, when his daughter Sarah was married to her second cousin, George Hazard, son of George, and grandson of Thomas (3) Hazard."

"A certain unity of opinion, and tradition, all seem to point to the facl that he was a man of ability ; and that he was well educated is proved by the formal, facile hand-writing seen in his family Bible, and in the few autograph documents which escaped the destroying touch of time, and have been handed down to his descendants." - The Hazard Family of Rhode Island

Sources:

http://www.davidgorton.com/Genealogy/familygroup.php?familyID=F9729...

The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635-1894: Being a Genealogy and History ...

By Caroline Elizabeth Robinson