Thomas Hazard and Martha Potter married one another around 1627, in England, and had the following children:
1628 Elizabeth born in Cranfield, Ampithiel Bedfordshire, England
1635 Robert born in England
1637 Hannah born in Portsmouth, Newport, RI, our ancestor
1638 Martha, in Portsmouth
1645 Jonathan, Portsmouth
1646 George, Portsmouth
1647 Nathaniel, Portsmouth
1652 Thomas, Portsmouth
Portsmouth was settled in 1638 by a group of religious dissenters from Massachusetts Bay Colony, including Dr. John Clarke, William Coddington, and Anne Hutchinson. It is named after Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. Roger Williams convinced the settlers that they should go there instead of settling in the Province of New Jersey, where they had first planned on going.
It was founded by the signers of the Portsmouth Compact. Its original Indian name was Pocasset, and it was officially named Portsmouth on May 12, 1639. It became part of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (see Aquidneck Island) and eventually part of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Source: Wikipedia
THOMAS HAZARD
BORN: 1609 in ,Nottinghamshire, England
MARRIED: abt 1627 in , , England
DIED: 1680 in Portsmouth Village, Rhode Island Colony
MARTHA POTTER
BORN: 28 Oct 1611 in St. Bride, London, Middlesex, England
DIED: after 1669 in Portsmouth, Newport, RI
SOURCES: April 1998-Descendancy chart from Leon Stiles in April 1998;WFT5657= Thomas was born in England; Marriage source=WFT5657,vol2; Leon Stiles, historian for Stiles Family and AffilTITL,WFT5657,vol2 WFT 5 regarding the death information of Thomas Hazard; WFT5657,2=Elizabeth, Hannah and Robert Hazard children of Thomas and Martha Hazard.
