Thomas Hazard

For the American author and social reformer, see Thomas Robinson Hazard.

Thomas Hazard
Bornby 1610
possibly Dorsetshire, England
Diedafter 1677
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Other namesThomas Hassard
EducationSigned name with a mark
OccupationShip carpenter
Spouse(s)(1) Martha Potter
(2) Martha (_______) Sheriff
ChildrenRobert, Elizabeth, Hannah, Martha

Thomas Hazard (1610[a] - after 1677) was one of the nine founding settlers of Newport on Aquidneck Island (Rhode Island) in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He settled in Boston and Portsmouth before settling Newport, but later returned to Portsmouth. He was the progenitor of the Hazard Family, and his descendants include Commodores Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew C. Perry and three colonial Rhode Island deputy governors.

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