Robert Hazard

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Note: No burial record has been found for Robert. His birth year is a close approximation based on the sequencing of his siblings. His death year comes from the probate of his will.

Robert was the son of Robert Hazard and Mary Brownell of Portsmouth and Kingstown, Rhode Island. He m. c. 1697 Amey CHAMPLIN, the daughter of Jeffrey-2 Champlin (Jeffrey-1). His will was proved 10 Nov 1718, and his wife died a few months before he did. Children:

• Jeffrey, b. 29 Sep 1698, m. 13 Aug 1726 Mary _______
• Susannah, b. 16 Jan 1701
• Hannah, b. 26 Feb 1703
• Robert, b. 19 Jan 1709, m. Martha ________
• Thomas, b. 18 June 1713
• Amey, b. 20 Sep 1715, m. Eber SHERMAN
• Mary, b. 14 May 1718, m. 6 June 1739 Ebenezer Druce(?

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GEDCOM Note

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Robert (2), son of Robert (1) and Mary (Brownell) Hazard, died in 1718, his will being proved in November of that year. He married Amey, who died in 1718, a few months prior to her husband. His will gave to his son Jeffrey three hundred acres of land which he called "the farm where I now live." It was probably in that part of Kings Town which became Exeter. To his son Thomas he gave two hundred acres in Kings Town, and one hundred and sixty acres in Westerly. To his son Robert he gave the old manor house, and one hundred and twenty acres, given him by his father; but Robert was not to have possession of the house and twenty acres until after his grandmother's death. To each of his daughters, he gave, when of age one hundred pounds. His children were: Jeffrey, born September 29, 1698; Susannah, born January 16, 1701; Robert (3), of whom further; Thomas, born June 18, 1713; Amey, born September 20, 1715; and Mary, born May 14, 1718.

"Robert Hazard (2) married Amey _________, and they resided in the town of Exeter, RI, then a part of Kingstown, as in his will he gave his son Jeffrey 300 acres of land which he called "the farm where I now live," as Jeffrey gave by deed to his son Jeremiah this farm calling it 'my' homestead farm." To his son Thomas, Robert gave 260 acres in the town of Westerly, RI; to his son Robert he gave the old manor or house and 120 acres given to him by his father; and to each of his daughters he gave when of age one hundred pounds. Mr. Hazard's death occurred in 1718. His children were: Jeffrey; Susanna; Robert; Thomas; Amey; and Mary." - "Representative Men and Old Families of Rhode Island, Genealogical Records and Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and of Many of the Old Families, Volume III," J.H.Beers & Co., Chicago, 1908