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Benjamin Hazard (YEAR – YEAR) was a justice of the Colonial Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1750 to May 1751.

Possibly the same person:

§ 47. BENJAMIN HAZARD, 4 (Thomas, 3; Robert, 2; Thomas, 1), was born November 2, 1702; he died in 1768. In 1738 he was given by his father three hundred and thirty acres in Boston Neck. He sold this land in 1750 to Daniel Jencks, and it is now known as the Jencks farm. Unlike his brothers, he did not increase his inheritance, and was not a large landholder. He died intestate, and probably insolvent, for after his death his daughter Hannah petitioned the town council to appoint George Hazard of Newport administrator of her father's estate, he being his largest creditor.

Though not a large farmer, he was an important man in the affairs of the Colony, and filled many positions with credit. In 1722 he was admitted freeman from South Kingstown; in 1744, 45, 46, 47, 48, he was Assistant. In 1745, “It was resolved and voted that Benjamin Hazard, Peter Bours, and Daniel Updike, Esq'., be, and they are hereby appointed a committee to take into consideration the last petition of the Massachusetts agent to the Right Honourable, the Lords of the Committee of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, respecting the controversy about the boundaries between the said Province of Massachusetts and this Colony, and make such remarks, and form such instructions thereon as they shall think necessary, and present the same to his Honour the Governor, in order to be sent to the agent by the first opportunity, and lay a copy thereof before this Assembly at their next session." (1 Col. Rec., vol. v, pp. 116-117.) In 1749 he was on a committee appointed to burn the old tenor notes as fast as received, twenty thousand pounds of the new tenor being reckoned as eighty thousand of the old tenor. (2 Col. Rec., vol. v, p. 273.)

He married, September 13, 1739, Mehitable, daughter of Abraham and Patience Redwood; she was born in Salem, Massachusetts, September 16, 1722, and died June 18, 1761, aged 39. They had five sons, one of whom died young, and two daughters.

JONATHAN HAZARD, born Aug. 25, 1740.

THOMAS HAZARD, born Dec. 25, 1742; died young.

HANNAH HAZARD, born July 7, 1744; married, July 7, 1771, James Tanner.

MEHITABLE HAZARD.

BENJAMIN HAZARD; died 1781, on board a prison ship.

REDWOOD HAZARD, born June 18, 1745; died June 24, 1836.

THOMAS HAZARD, born Jan. 23, 1756; married, Oct. 2, 1783, Hannah, daughter of Joseph and Bathsheba Knowles.

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Category:Justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court

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