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Mary Haszard Cole

Birth	:	1755 Rhode Island, USA
Death	:	18 Sep 1841 South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
Burial	:	Cole Lot, North Kingstown, Washington County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.5408900, -71.4414600
Inscription	:	Footstone-M. C.
Description	:	Mary Cole, widow of William Cole, Esq. Died in her 86th year Child: Sarah Cole-(1798-14 Oct 1823) Sources: J. R. Cole History of Washington and Kent Counties, in the Narragansett Historical Register, Vol. 2. Royal Families, Volume Two, Reverend Francis Marbury, by Marston Watson, page 67. Updike's History of the Narragansett Church Notes: THOMAS HAZARD, 5, "Virginia Tom" (Jonathan, 4; Thomas, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, 1), was born February 22, 1727 ; he died April 27, 1804. His father gave to him three hundred acres in Boston Neck, now known as the Governor Brown farm, but it is probable that he did not live there... Read More	Mary Cole, widow of William Cole, Esq. Died in her 86th year Child: Sarah Cole-(1798-14 Oct 1823) Sources: J. R. Cole History of Washington and Kent Counties, in the Narragansett Historical Register, Vol. 2. Royal Families, Volume Two, Reverend Francis Marbury, by Marston Watson, page 67. Updike's History of the Narragansett Church Notes: THOMAS HAZARD, 5, "Virginia Tom" (Jonathan, 4; Thomas, 3 ; Robert, 2 ; Thomas, 1), was born February 22, 1727 ; he died April 27, 1804. His father gave to him three hundred acres in Boston Neck, now known as the Governor Brown farm, but it is probable that he did not live there for any length of time. He was too ambitious to be long content with the simple, uneventful life of a farmer ; building ships to carry the products of his farms to distant markets, had little attraction for a man who could build fast-sailing privateers at his own shipyard, to chase the enemies of the King, and recover from them their ill-gotten gains. A cargo of rum to be exchanged for molasses had not as pleasant a savour, and was not as profitable as the sweet-smelling spices, fragant teas, or other luxuries that his ships brought back from their long voyages. There are no records to prove that he ever became a large landholder in the Narragansett country. His Boston Neck farm he did retain, certainly until 1760, when his first wife was buried there. When a part of this farm was sold a few years ago, descendants of Thomas and this wife reverently moved the mouldering remains to the Boston Neck burying-ground of Wilkins Updike, whose wife (a daughter of Walter Watson) was a granddaughter of "Virginia Tom." Soon after Thomas Hazard's marriage he went to Newport, where he became a successful merchant, making a large fortune. His son, William Hazard, stated before the Loyalist Commissioners, in 1833, that his father had an estate of ^20,000 confiscated in the United States. He was, like the greater number of the Hazard family of his generation, strongly conservative, and adhered to the cause of the King during the struggle for independence. It is not known that he took an active part in actual warfare, but he was obliged to leave his family, and flee to New York, then in possession of the British. His property was confiscated; he being the only member of the family who suffered in this way. 1 The others who were attainted, after a little discipline and a few months' absence from home, made their peace with the Colony, and were restored to their civil rights. "Virginia Tom " was of too strong a build and too dominant a nature to yield his firm convictions to a matter of security to his person and estate. Even after the war was over, and he was offered free pardon and restoration of his property, he refused to accept either, at the price of submission. However, the Colony was most kind and gentle to her high-spirited children, and restored all his estate to his wife and children after the close of the war. His adopted mother proved her- self but a step-mother, for of all the thousand acres of land granted to him in He S. Jean, 2 now Prince Edward Island, but a small part, if any, came into his possession. A great-grandson says: " As far as can be ascertained at present, he never profited by any grants of land in this Island, made to him as a loyalist." Very little is known of his life after he went to Prince Edward Island, in 1786 : shortly after his arrival there he is found filling some minor public offices ; also at an election in 1787, he was returned as a member of the House of Assembly on both opposing lists. He was peculiar in being the only person having that honor. A great-grandson who furnishes this information adds, " I think that election was set aside as void. I have not yet ascertained whether or not he ever sat in the House." There is no record of office-holding while an inhabitant of the Colony of Rhode Island. His name first occurs in the Colonial Records in 1760, when he and Henry Wall of North Kingstown petitioned the General Assembly, "and represent- ed that they, at their own costs and charges, equipped a private ship of war, against His Majesty's enemies, under the command of Captain Abel Michiner; that the said ship, in her cruise, took a vessel belonging to the subjects of the French king, who are now prisoners of war, in Newport aforesaid, and supported at the sole expense of the petitioners ; whereupon they prayed that they be permitted to fit out and send a vessel with a flag of truce, C7^ /y. '*~ > to carry the aforesaid eleven Frenchmen to the West Indies, and there deliver them unto the commander ff in chief of such port or place, as they shall send to." 3 This petition was granted, " provided that they cause so many English prisoners to be brought back into Newport as the vessel will carry ; provided, also, that the vessel to be sent, be under the same regulations and restrictions with others going to the colonies, ports, or harbors of the enemy, with a flag of truce." 4 Thomas Hazard married, about 1746, Mary Preeson, or Preston, Bowdoin, daughter of Peter Bowdoin of Virginia. Pierre Baudouin, "who came to America in 1686, was one of the Baudouin i R. I. Col. Rec, vol. ix., p. 530. 2 The lie S. Jean, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, ceded by France to England in 1764. Its name was changed to Prince Edward Island in 1798. 3 Col. Rec, vol. vi., p. 252. Col. Rec, vol. vi., p. 262. family of La Rochelle, one of the most important and ancient " of that city. Its different branches were known by names taken from the numerous "seigneuries" which they possessed. They were descended from Pierre Baudouin, Ecuyer, Sieur de la Laigue, who married the daughter of Jean Bureau, mayor of La Rochelle, in 1448. The Baudouins were among the first disciples of the Reformed faith. Several of them distinguished themselves by services to the Protestant cause. In consequence of the severities practiced toward the Protestants, Pierre Baudouin left France and took refuge in the city of Dublin. Later he was induced to come to America, and settle in Maine, where he received a grant of land. He came to Boston in 1690, with his two sons, Jean and James. Jean, the elder, afterwards removed to Virginia, where his descendants may still be found. It was his granddaughter, Mary Preeson Bowdoin, who married Thomas Hazard. James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts, was descended from Pierre, through James Bowdoin. It is from this branch of the Bowdoin family that Bowdoin College takes its name, as well as the square and street of that name in Boston. Mary Preeson (or Preston) Bowdoin Hazard died, in Rhode Island, April 17, 1760. The inscription on her gravestone reads, "She was a loving and kind wife." It is from this marriage that the Watsons, Updikes, and other Narragansett families are descended. Thomas Hazard married, secondly, Eunice, daughter of William and Mary (Sheldon) Rhodes, and great-granddaughter of Roger Williams. She was born December 12, 1741, and died January 22, 1809. From this marriage the Hazards now living in Prince Edward Island are descended. Children of First Marriage 407. A Child, born Sept. 27, 1747; died March 26, 1748. 408. A Child, born Aug. 1748; died Aug. 10, 1749. 409. Jonathan Hazard, born July, 1750; married Esther Watson. 410. Abigail Hazard, born Dec. 25, 1751; married Walter Watson. 411. Mary Hazard, born Aug. 14; 1753; died Aug. 31, 1754. 412. Mary Hazard, born 1755; died Nov. 29, 1759. 413. A Daughter, born 1757; died 1757. 414. A Son, born 1757; died 1757. 415. Susannah Hazard, born Aug. 24, 1758. Her name was changed to Mary; she died Sept. 18, 1 841; married William Cole. ************ Children of Second Marriage 416. Thomas Rhodes Hazard, born March 1, 1762 ; died 1839 ; married May 8, 1796, Jane Bagnall ; she died Dec. 24, 1840. 417. Eunice Hazard, born Feb. 14, 1764; died March 9, 1832 ; married John Gardiner. 418. A Daughter, born 1766; died 1766. 419. William Haszard, born May 3, 1767; died March 14, 1847; married Ann Farrant Jones, of London; she died Jan. 18, 1853. 420. Sarah Haszard, born July 18, 1769; married Hon. William Townshend. 421. Waitstill C. Hazard, born March 12, 1772; died May 23, 1804; married James Douglas, Jan. 30, 1789; he died Sept. 26, 1803. 422. Bowdoin Hazard, born 1774; died July 29, 1832; unmarried. 423. Rhodes Hazard, born Sept. 17, 1777; died 1806; unmarried. 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Mary Haszard Cole death on 18 Sep 1841 in South Kingstown, Washington County, Rhode Island, USA
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(1735 - 1823)

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