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Note for: Samuel Griswold, 1649 - 6 Jul 1672 Index

Christening:
     Date:   18 Nov 1649
     Place:   Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Note for: John Griswold, 1652 - 7 Aug 1717 Index

Christening:
     Date:   1 Aug 1652
     Place:   Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Note for: Samuel Phelps, 1634 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   4 May 1634
     Place:   , Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom

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Note for: Timothy William Phelps, 19 Aug 1639 - ABT 1719 Index

Christening:
     Date:   1 Sep 1639
     Place:   Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Note for: George Griswold, 23 Apr 1548 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   28 Apr 1548
     Place:   , Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England, United Kingdom

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Note for: Thomas Hazard, 1610 - 1680 Index

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AFN: 8NRJ-D9

BIOGRAPHY OF THOMAS HAZARD

Thomas Hazard was probably born in Nottinghamshire, England. H e marriedMartha Potter about 1626. He came to New England and w as in Boston,Massachusetts in 1635. He was a freeman on March 2 5, 1636. He was aship-carpenter. He moved to Portsmouth, Rhod e Island in 1638. He was oneof the founders of Newport, Rhode I sland on 28 April 1639. He was amember of the General Court o f Elections on 12 March 1640, when Newportand Portsmouth unite d under one government. He was a member of theGovernor's Counci l in 1654 and served as a magistrate from 1652-1655.

He moved to Middleburg (now Newton) Long Island, New York in 165 6, butreturned to Portsmouth before 1669, near the time his fir st wife Marthadied. His wrote his first will in 1669. In it h e names wife Martha;daughters Elizabeth wife of George Laighton ; Hannah wife of StephenWilcox of Misquamacuck, that part of th e Narraganset now Westerly; andMartha wife of Ichabod Potter o f Portsmouth, also son Robert, andgrandson Thomas Hazard. Thoma s married second, Martha Sheriff, the widowof Thomas Sheriff. T homas Hazard, second husband of Mary Sheriff, made adeclaration , just after her husband's death, May 29, 1675: "This is tosati sfy all men, whom it may anyway concern, whereas there is a prom iseof matrimony betwixt Thomas Hazard and Martha Sheriff, ye t I theforesaid Thomas Hazard do take the said Martha Sheriff f or her ownperson, without having anything to do with her estat e or with any thingthat is hers" .

On 16 October 1674, he said he was 64 years old. His last will w as datedNovember 13, 1676 and proved in 1680. He died in King s Town (now SouthKingston), Rhode Island.

Information from Genealogy of One Branch of the Peckham Family o fNewport and Westerly, R. I. by William Perry and John Earle Be ntley;Babcock and Allied Families by Louis Effingham de Forest ; The HazardFamily of Rhode Island by Caroline E. Robinson; Gen ealogical Dictionaryof Rhode Island by John Osborne Austin; Col onial Families of the UnitedStatesTHE 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 was adm ittedfreeman of Portsmouth, RI. In 1639, he and eight others si gned thefollowing contract, preparatory of the settlement of Ne wport, RI.
The founders and first officers of the town of Newport were Will iamCoddington, Judge; Nicholas Easton, John Coggeshall, Willia m Brenton,John Clarke, Jeremy Clark, Thomas Hazard, and Henry B ull, Elders;William Dyer, Clerk.
Sept. 2, 1639 he was admitted freemen of Newport, and 1640, Marc h 12, hewas appointed a member of the General Court of Election s.
In the early history of the family it was almost an exception t o find aHazard who did not marry a cousin, and it is a curiou s fact that thelines in which these marriages were the most fre quent, were often markedby the strongest men and women, both me ntally and physically.
Thomas R. Hazard, in his "Recollections of Olden Times", has giv en anaccount of the family that goes back, about 1060, on the b orders ofSwitzerland. From the Duke de Charante he has given a n interestingaccount of the changes in the name, until toward s the close of theeighteenth century, when it was written Hazar d.