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• Birth	1610	,Dorsetshire,England
  Gender	Male
  Died	1680	Portsmouth,Newport Co.,Rhode Island
  Person ID	I110572	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	15 Jul 2000 00:00:00
  Father	William HASSARD
  Mother	Ellinor SACHERVELL
  Family ID	F46360	Group Sheet
  Family	Martha POTTER
  Married	Bef 1635
  Children	1. Robert HAZARD, b. 1635, England   2. Elizabeth HAZARD, b. Aft 1635, Portsmouth,Newport Co.,Rhode Island   3. Thomas HAZARD > 4. Hannah HAZARD, b. 10 Jul 1637, Boston,Suffolk Co.,Massachusetts   5. Martha HAZARD, b. Abt 1640   6. George HAZARD, b. 1646, Providence,Providence,RI
  Family ID	F46359	Group Sheet

• Notes

  THE HAZARD FAMILY OF RHODE ISLAND, by Caroline Robinson, page 1 & 2. m. 1st Martha, who died in 1669. m. 2nd Martha, widow of Thomas Sheirff, she died in 1691. His name is first found in Boston MA in 1635. In 1638 he wasadmitted freeman of Portsmouth, RI. In 1639, he and eight others signedthe the following contract,preparatory of the settlement of Newport, RI. The founders and first officers of the town of Newport were WilliamCoddington, Judge; Nicholas Easton, John Coggeshall, William Brenton,John Clarke, Jeremy Clark, Thomas Hazard, and Henry Bull, Elders; WilliamDyer, Clerk. Sept. 2, 1639 he was admitted freemen of Newport, and 1640, March12, he was appointed a member of the General Court of Elections. In the early history of the family it was almost an exception tofind a Hazard who did not marry a cousin, and it is a curious fact thatthe lines in which these marriages were the most frequent, were oftenmarked by the strongest men and women, both mentally and physically. Thomas R. Hazard, in his "Recollections of Olden Times", has givenan account of the family that goes back, about 1060, on the borders ofSwitzerland. From the Duke de Charante he has given an interestingaccount of the changes in the name, until towards the close of theeighteenth century, when it was written Hazard. Info from: Bertie Hinman Hoch, 55 Towne House Lane, Corpus Chirstie, TX78412 DIRECTORY OF HEADS OF N.E. FAMILIES, "he was a ship carpenter, onrecord at Boston 1635, freeman 1636: removed in a few years to RI; signedthe Covenant of Cities 1639; was at Newtown, L.I. 1656. He died 1669." His parents were William HASSARD and Ellinor SACHERVELL, and herfather was Henry SACHERVELL, Esq. RHODE ISLAND ROOTS, June 1986, by Mildred Mosher Chamberlain, C.G. In 1656 he was of Newtown Long Island for a short time being back inPortsmouth in 1658. In 1669 he made a will which was rendered void by later ones. Hisfinal will dated 13 Nov. 1676 mentions wife Martha, son Robert, daughtersHannah Wilcox and Martha Potter. Three of his sons were of Newtown, Long Island - Thomas about1652-3; Jonathan 1664 and Nathaniel 1659. Children: Robert m. Mary Brownell; Thomas; Jonathan; Nathaniel;Elizabeth m. George Lawton; Hannah m. Stephen Wilcox; Martha m. (1)Ichabod Potter (202 Benjamin Bowry. SUGGESTED READING: THE HAZARD FAMILY OF RHODE ISLAND 1635-1894 (Boston MA 1895) by CarolineE. Robinson. GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY OF RI, by James O. Austin. (Baltimore MD rev.1978 ed) THE EARLY RECORDS OF THE TOWN OF PORTSMOUTH, (Providence RI1901) Sources: Babcock and Allied Families by Louis E. De Forest;Potter-Richardson Memorial; Potter Families and Descendants in America; The Hazard Familyof RI; Genealogies of RI Families, "One Line of the Haszard Family"; Savage; The Albro Family History; Ancestral Lines Revised (1981) by Carl Boyer 3rd; Founders of Early American Families; National Society, Daughters ofColonial Wars, 1958-1966 (973, D2dcw); Hazard-Potter Records (film 1,033,990, It.3); The Great Migration Begins, v2, p1314; A Witter Family History. De Forest: Thomas Hazard, born 1610, died 1680. He was a ship'scarpenter who emigrated to Boston in 1635, freeman 25 March 1636. He moved toPortsmouth, RI, in 1638 and on 28 April 1639, he was admitted as an inhabitant of the Island of Aquidneck. In that year he and eight other men signed anagreement preparatory to settling Newport. On 5 June 1639 he was one of the four proportioners of land at Newport. He was made a freeman 2 Sept. 1639. Hewas in in Middelburg (Newtown), Long Island, New York, where he a magistratefrom 1652 to 1655; was back in Portsmouth in 1655; returned to Middelburg for shorttime in 1656; later returned to Portsmouth. He made his will 30 Nov. 1669.Married (1) Martha, (2) 1675 Martha Sheriff, widow of Thomas Sheriff. Made a newwill 6 Nov. 1676, giving one shilling to each of his children, with the widowgetting "all movable and immovable estate" and 30 acres in Portsmouth in whichshe would have a life interest. Memorial: Thomas Hazard, born about 1610, probably in Dorsetshire,England. He was in Boston by 1635 and was freeman there in 1638; removed toPortsmouth, RI, where he was admitted a freeman in 1640. Married (1) Martha ________, (2) Martha (________) Sheriff, widow of Thomas Sheriff. Thomas Hazarddied in 1680 in Portsmouth. This source says he may also have had three moresons: Thomas, Nathaniel and Jonathan, mother not specified. On page 180 it says Thomas was from Nottinghamshire; was appointed with three others to layout the town of Newport in 1639. He also was a founder of Newton, Long Island,NY, where he was a magistrate, 1652-1655, under the Dutch. He and his wifeMartha had four children. He was a ship's carpenter and a surveyor. Potter Families: Thomas Hazard, came to America from Wales. Hazard Family: Thomas Hazard, progenitor of the family in America,born 1610; will proved 1680; married (1) Martha ____________, (2) Martha,widow of Thomas Sheriff. His name is first found in Boston in 1635, where he wasadmitted a freeman 25 March 1638. Two years later he was admitted a freeman in Portsmouth, RI. Admitted a freeman of Newport, RI, 2 Sept. 1639 and 12 March 1640 appointed a member of the General Board of Elections. In 1665,he was for a short time in Newtown, Long Island. RI Families: "Thomas Haszard came to Portsmouth in the colony of Rhode Island, the north town of Aquidneck, with three children about the year1639." He married his second wife, Martha, the widow of Thomas Sheriffe ofPortsmouth, about 1675, by whom he had no offspring. His will, signed 6 Aug. 1677, is recorded in Portsmouth, in which he empowers "my loving wife, MarthaHazard, whole and sole executrix of all and every part of my estate." He wasburied on the farm lying on the west shore of the island next north of Lawton'sValley, which farm is now (date?) occupied as an asylum for the poor of the townof Portsmouth. (From an article by John B. Pierce, town clerk of NorthKingstown, which names only three children: Hannah who married Stephen Wilcox,Martha who married Ichabod Potter and Robert, no wife listed, who was four years oldwhen he came to Portsmouth.) An article in Vol. 1, on page 289, says ThomasHazard signed the Newport Compact, which was drawn up after the PortsmouthCompact of 7 March 1637/38, by men in disagreement with the latter compact. Thesemen settled Newport. Savage: Thomas Hazard, Boston, 1635, ship carpenter; freeman 25 May1636; removed in few years to RI; signed the cov. of citiz. 24 Jan. 1639 and ison the list of 1655, but in 1656 was in Newtown, L.I. Thence he soon cameback to Portsmouth, R.I. and died there in 1669. Will that year names wifeMartha; daughters Elizabeth, wife of George Laighton; Hannah, wife of StephenWilcox of Misquamacuck, that part of the Narraganset now Westerly; and Martha, wifeof Ichabod Potter of Portsmouth, besides son Robert and grandson ThomasHazard. Tradition in the family is that he came from Wales, bringing son Robert,age 4. Albro: Thomas Hazard, born 1610, came from England to Boston in 1635.Listed as a freeman and ship's carpenter. Removed to Rhode Island in 1636. Hiswill names wife Martha, son Robert and daughters Elizabeth, Hannah and Martha.Two other sons are known: George, born in Providence, RI, in 1646, and ThomasJr. He married (1) Martha _________ and (2) Martha ________, widow of Thomas Sheriff/Shreve after 29 May 1675. Thomas Hazard died in 1680. Ancestral Lines: Thomas Hazard, born in Nottinghamshire (severalsources, probably following family tradition) or Dorsetshire (Sumner) in 1610.Died in Kings Town (now South Kingston) RI in 1680. His first wife, Martha, diedabout 1670. Married (2), about 1675, Martha, widow of Thomas Sheriff. Shemarried (3) Lewis Hues and died in 1691. He and his first wife were the ancestorsof Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry of Commodire Matthew C. Perry. ThomasHazard was in Boston in 1635 (Sumner), having perhaps sailed from Wales (Parker, 6),and was freeman 25 March 1636 (Austin). He was a ship carpenter (Sumner,101). He moved to Portsmouth, RI, in 1638, and a freeman there in 1639. One of the founders and owners of Newport, 28 April 1639. He was a freeman inNewport 2 Sept. 1639 and a member of the General Court of Elections on 12 March1640, when the people of Portsmouth and Newport united under one government. Hewas a member of the Governor's Council in 1654 and served as a magistratefrom 1652 to 1655. He moved to Middleburg (now Newton), Long Island, in 1656(Holmes), but lived there only a short time (Austin). On 16 Oct. 1674 he testifiedhe was aged 64 (Austin). His will, dated 13 Nov. 1676, was proven in 1680. Hiswife was executrix. Founders: Thomas Hazard. Boston, MA, 1635. Newport 1639. Portsmouth1640. Newtown, Long Island, 1665. Died by 1680. Freeman. Magistrate, Shipcarpenter. Colonial Wars: Thomas Hazard, 1610-1680, R.I. and N.Y. Founder ofNewport, R.I., 1639. Member, General Court of Elections, 1640. Delegate fromMiddlebury (Newton), Long Island, to convention of 1653 at New amsterdam. Magistrateat Middlebury, 1653-1655. Signed the Compact of Aquidneck, R.I. Governor's Council, 1654. Witter Family: Thomas Hazard, born 1610, Nottingham, England. Died1680, Kingstown, R.I. He was a ship's carpenter. In Boston 1635. Lived atPortsmouth, R.I., and settled Newport. Lived Middleburg, Long Island, and Kingstown,R.I. Freeman of Boston 1636. Member of the R.I. General Court 1640 and of the Governor's Council 1654. Magistrate 1652-55. Married (1) Martha ______and (2) Martha Potter, widow of Thomas Sheriff. Thomas Hazard's parentsprobably were William Hazard/Hassard and Ellianor Sachrverell of Nottinghamshire.This line is continued another 12 generations back to the Duke of Charante.See Chart 20A.