Thomas Hazard

[1] Moriarity suggested that he had come from Dorsetshire, England, but Anderson concluded there is insufficient evidence for this assertion.

[3] He was made a freeman of Boston in 1636, but by 1638 he was admitted as an inhabitant of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island, where many followers of Anne Hutchinson had settled.

[1] On 28 April 1639, he and eight others signed a compact, and soon established the town of Newport at the southern end of Aquidneck Island.

[1] In September he was made a freeman of Newport, and the following March was a member of the general court of elections.

[3] In 1655 Hazard was once again in Portsmouth, where his name appears on a list of freemen, and where, in 1658, he deeded land to Stephen Wilcox, who married his daughter Hannah.

"[4] Following Hazard's death, his widow then married Lewis Hues, who abandoned her within a few weeks, apparently "taking away great part of her estate, that was hers in her former husband's time.