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Persoonlijke gegevens Thomas Hazard 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1610 in Nottinghamshire, ENGLAND.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1680 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island, British America, hij was toen 70 jaar oud.
• Een kind van William Hazard
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 9 maart 2015.

Gezin van Thomas Hazard

(1) Hij is getrouwd met Martha unknown.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1628 te ENGLAND.

Kind(eren):

1. Robert Hazard  ± 1628-1710 
2. Elizabeth Hazard  1630-1711 
3. Hannah Hazard  ± 1633-± 1690 
4. Martha Hazard  ± 1641-???? 

(2) Hij is getrouwd met Martha Sheriff.

Zij zijn getrouwd rond 1675.

Notities over Thomas Hazard

Thomas Hazard - TimeLine

THOMAS, b. 1610 Boston, Mass.; d. 1680 + Portsmouth, R. I.
m. (1)
MARTHA, b. ; d. 1669 +
m (2)1675.
MARTHA SHERIFF (W. of Thomas), b. ; d. 1691 +

He was a ship carpenter.
1635, He was at Boston thus early.
1636, Mar. 25. Freeman.
1638. Portsmouth. He was among those admitted as inhabitants of
Aquidneck.
1639, Apr. 28. He and eight others signed the following compact preparatory to the settlement of Newport. "It is agreed by us whose hands are underwritten to propagate a plantation in the midst of the island, or elsewheres, and to engage ourselves to bear equal charge, answerable to our strength and estates in common ; and that our determination shall be by major voices of judge and elders, the judge to have a double voice."
1639, Jun. 5. Newport. He was named as one of four proportioners of
land, any three of whom might proportion it, the company laying it forth
to have 4d. an acre for every acre laid out.
1639, Sep. 2. Freeman.
1640, Mar. 12. Member of General Court of Elections.
1641, Mar. 16. Freeman.
1655. Portsmouth. Freeman.
1656. Newtown (Long Island), N. Y. He remained here but a short
time.
1658, Jan. 30. Portsmouth. He deeded as dower, with his daughter Hannah
Hazard, unto Stephen Wilcox, of Portsmouth, 34 acres adjoining farm of
said Hazard.
1666, Dec. 10. He deeded Thomas Sheriff, house, 30 acres, orchard, &c, in
Portsmouth, for £20, and a quarter of a share in Misquamicut. Possession
was not to be had till death of said Thomas Hazard, and then to be for
Thomas Sheriff and his wife Martha for life, and at death of both to go to
second son John Sheriff, and he failing of issue to go to third son, Caleb
Sheriff, &c.
1669, Nov. 30. Will. Ex. son Robert. He mentions wife Martha, daughters
Elizabeth, wife of George Lawton. Hannah, wife of Stephen Wilcox of Misquamicut, and Martha, wife of Ichabod Potter, son Robert Hazard, and
grandson Thomas Hazard. (This will was rendered void by later ones.)
1674, Oct. 16. He testified as to the corn mill at Pawtuxet in controversy
between Stephen Arnold and Samuel Reape, calling his age sixty-four years.
1675, May 29. He recorded a declaration previous to making his marriage
with Martha Sheriff, widow of Thomas Sheriff. "This is to notify all
men whom it may anyway concern, whereas there is promise of matrimony
betwixt Thomas Hazard and Martha Sheriff, yet I, the aforesaid Thomas
Hazard, do take the same Martha Sheriff for her own person, without
having anything to do with her estate, or anything that is hers for matter
of goods," &c.
1677, Aug. 6. He had his declaration recorded: that whereas son Robert
claims right to my lands by virtue of a Writing as he saith by me formerly
passed and given him, &c.—this is denied. I, Thomas Hazard, do by these
presents solemnly protest and affirm that I never made any writing, only in
a will drawn by John Porter at John Lawton's house about thirty years
years past, wherein if I had then deceased, being sick and weak, my said
son was to have had my lands and my other children my movables; nor
made any writing to said son only in a will 1669, Nov. 30, in which I
appointed him executor, since which time have seen cause to make null and
void, and do absolutely abolish the two wills and have made another will
dated 1676, Nov. 6.
1676, Nov. 13. Will. Exx. wife Martha. To her, 30 acres in Portsmouth
for life, as declared in deed to Thomas Sheriff, dated 1666, Dec. 10,
by which said Thomas Hazard was to have for life and then to my beloved
yoke fellow Martha Hazard. To wife also all movable and immovable
estate, as housing, goods, cattle and chattels. To son Robert, 1s. To
daughters Hannah Wilcox and Martha Potter, wife of Ichabod Potter, 1s.
1680. Taxed 9s. 6d.

Thomas Hazard (1610-1680), the ancestor of this numerous family in America, and one of the founders of Newport, was twice married. By his first wife, Martha, he had several children. ...
Thomas Hazard (1610-1680) , the progenitor of the Hazard family in the United States, is first recorded in Boston, Mass., 1635, where he was admitted Freeman, March 25, 1638. Two years later he was Freeman of Portsmouth, R. I. April 28, 1639, he signed, with eight others, the compact which was drawn up preparatory to the settlement of Newport, R. I. He married first, Martha , who died 1669, and second, Martha, (widow of Thomas Sheriff), who died 1691.
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Source: Ancestral Records and Portraits, Volume I, The Colonial Dames of America, New York: The Grafton Press, 1910, pp. 72, 100.

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