The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 4

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 978

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(I) Thomas Hazard, born in 1610, appears first of record in America in Boston in 1635, and was admitted a freeman there in 1638, and two years later of Ports- mouth, R. I. He was one of the founders and first town officers of Newport, along with Coddington, Easton, Coggeshall, Brenton, the Clarkes, Bull and Dyer. Mr. Hazard was made a freeman of Newport in 1639, and in 1640 was appointed a member of the General Court of Elections. His first wife, Martha,

died in 1669, and he married (second) Martha, widow of Thomas Sheriff.

(II) Robert Hazard, son of Thomas and Martha Hazard, was born in 1635. He was admitted a freeman of Portsmouth, R. I., in 1665, and from that time until 1698 his name often appears in the Colonial records as chosen to fill some important position. In 1671 he bought five hundred acres of land in Kings Town, and in 1687 he was taxed in that town; and not long thereafter he built his house there. This house was still standing in the early part of the nineteenth century. In 1695 he gave to his son, George, the larger part of his Kings Town purchase. In 1710, a short time before his death, Robert sold to his son, Robert (2), the remaining part of his farm, with "my manor house where I now live," and the latter, in 1718, gave it by will to his son, Robert (3), after his mother's death, making three Roberts who had successively owned the old house. The last, upon the death of his grand- mother in 1739, sold to his uncle George the remaining part of the farm; it went next in 1743 to George's son, Colonel Thomas, who in 1748 sold it to John Rose. In 1695 Robert Hazard gave his son, Jeremiah, two hun -. dred acres of land in Tiverton. Robert Hazard died in 1710. He married Mary Brownell, born in 1639, daugh- ter of Thomas and Anne Brownell, who lived to be one hundred years old, dying January 28, 1739, her obituary setting forth that she was accounted a very useful gentle- woman.

(III) Robert (2) Hazard, son of Robert (1) and Mary (Brownell) Hazard, died in 1718, his will being proved in November of that year. He married Amey -, who died in 1718, a few months prior to her hus- band. His will gave to his son, Jeffrey, three hundred acres of land, which he called "the farm where I now live." It was probably in that part of Kings Town which became Exeter. To his son, Thomas, he gave two hundred acres in Kings Town, and one hundred and sixty acres in Westerly. To his son, Robert, he gave the old manor house, and one hundred and twenty acres, given him by his father; but Robert was not to have possession of the house and twenty acres until after his grandmother's death. To each of his daughters he gave, when of age, one hundred pounds.

(IV) Robert (3) Hazard, son of Robert (2) and Amey Hazard, was born June (or January) 19, 1703, died in 1775. Early in life Mr. Hazard removed to East Greenwich, in which town are recorded the births of all his children. In 1739 he sold the old homestead with one hundred acres to his uncle George. By the terms of his father's will he was to have possession of the old home only after the death of his grandmother, which occurred in 1739. He married, in March, 1727, Martha -, and the event is recorded in North Kings Town.

(V) Jeremiah Hazard, son of Robert (3) and Martha Hazard, was born July 25, 1736, and died in 1773. In his will written in that year, he gave to his son, Jeffrey, "all my lands lying in Exeter and in West Greenwich; to wife Phebe, all lands lying in Coventry (one hundred and fifty acres) ; to daughter Abigail, etc. The will was admitted to probate December 14, 1773. He mar- ried, November 6, 1760, Phebe Tillinghast.

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(VI) Jeffrey Hazard, son of Jeremiah and Phebe Tillinghast) Hazard, was born in 1762, died in Decem- er, 1840. He was Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode sland from 1833 to 1835, and again from 1836 to 1837. Ie was also for many years a representative in the General Assembly, and Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and Judge of the Supreme Court from Bio to 1818. He married Amey Tillinghast, born in 773, daughter of Thomas Tillinghast. She died June , 1870.

(VII) John Hazard, son of Jeffrey and Amey (Till- aghast) Hazard, was born in 1804, died in Providence, anuary 7, 1885. Mrs. Hazard survived her husband, nd died on May 12, 1888, aged eighty-one years. John Hazard was a farmer in early life, and resided in Exe- er, R. I. Later he removed to Providence, where he ras engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a Demo- rat in political sentiment, and at one time was a repre- entative from Exeter to the General Assembly. He harried Margaret Crandall, daughter of Robert Cran- all.

(VIII) General John Gardiner Hazard, son of John nd Margaret (Crandall) Hazard, was born April 15, 832, in the town of Exeter, R. I., died May 15, 1897, Providence. He was one of Rhode Island's foremost itizen-soldiers. The breaking out of the Civil War ound him engaged in mercantile pursuits at Providence. His patriotism and the stirring events of the spring and ummer of 1861 led him to tender his services to his ountry. He was commissioned first lieutenant, First Rhode Island Artillery, August 8, 1861; assisted in the rganization of Batteries B and C; accompanied the atter to Washington, and was soon after transferred to Battery A. He was ordered to accompany General Williams' brigade to Ball's Bluff on the day of the attle there, and arrived on the ground at daylight the ollowing morning. The day was spent in getting canal oats in readiness, and putting on board the battery and orses. After dark he was ordered to unship, as the roops already across were ordered back to Maryland's ide of the Potomac. This move of crossing to the Vir- inia side of the river was simply a feint to prevent the nemy making another, prior to our troops returning, which could only be done under cover of night. The following day the battery returned to its old camping ground at Darnstown. About the first of November, Lieutenant Hazard was ordered to report to General Charles P. Stone, at Poolesville, Md., where his battery remained during the winter, sending out a section veekly to do picket duty. During the great portion of he winter Lieutenant Hazard was in command of the battery, Captain Tompkins being absent on sick leave. Early in the spring the battery accompanied General

Sedgewick to Harper's Ferry, from which point two or hree expeditions were made up the valley to Charles- own and Winchester, resulting only in slight skirm- shes. In April the battery was ordered to Washington o ship for Fortress Monroe. Arriving at that point, the division was united to Sumner's Corps, the Second. Lieutenant Hazard accompanied the battery up the peninsula, and was almost daily engaged in the siege of Yorktown. At the raising of the siege it was put on shipboard on the York river and landed at West Point, where it joined the main part of the army again at Camp Winfield Scott. June 30, crossing the Chickahominy, it

was engaged in the battle of Fair Oaks, after which it remained in this work until the retreat was ordered to the James river. The battery was engaged almost con- stantly, as was the entire army, from the time it started until it reached the river,-more severely for the bat- tery, perhaps, at Peach Orchard, White Oak Swamp and Glendale. At Malvern Hill it was not ordered into the fight, yet sustained loss from the enemy's artillery.

On August 20, 1862, Lieutenant Hazard was commis- sioned captain of Battery B, and took command Sep- tember I, at Alexandria, on its arrival from the penin- sula. It then rejoined the Second Corps, and accom- panied it through Maryland, South Mountain, thence to the battle of Antietam. From here the army went into camp in and about Harper's Ferry, to refit and reorgan- ize. The battery at this time was in a particularly bad condition, horses worn out, men were ragged, and from constant marching day and night, the men had become slack in discipline. These evils, with the assistance of Lieutenants George W. Adams, Horace S. Bloodgood and G. Lyman Dwight, were speedily overcome. In October, 1862, Captain Hazard proceeded with the army to Warrenton, and from there, after the change in com- mand, to Falmouth, opposite Fredericksburg, where the battery remained in camp until ordered into the battle of Fredericksburg. On the 12th he was engaged from daylight until late in the day in shelling the same. On the morning of the 13th he was ordered across the river to report to Major-General O. O. Howard, commanding Second Division of the corps. The infantry having been repulsed again and again by many hard hours of fight- ing, it was decided to send Battery B to the extreme front in a very exposed position, within one hundred and fifty yards of the enemy's line and under a heavy crossfire of their artillery. Their orders were to go in on the run or they would never succeed in getting into position at all. They did so, but remained there only about twenty minutes, when they were ordered out, with a severe loss of men and horses. General Couch after- ward told Captain Hazard that he did not expect to see him get out without losing his command, but that he considered the sacrifice called for, as the infantry were getting much demoralized. The horses of Captain Hazard and Lieutenant Bloodgood were shot under them during the battle.

In April, 1863, Captain Hazard was made chief of artillery of the corps. At the same time a complete change was made in the organization of the artillery of the Army of the Potomac. The artillery of each corps was taken from the division and made into a separate brigade by itself, and placed under the sole command of the chief of artillery, who was made, by the order, a brigade commander. After the fatal blunder of Gen- eral Hooker, at Chancellorsville, the enemy left our front on their memorable campaign into Maryland and Pennsylvania. Captain Hazard's brigade accompanied the Second Corps on the chase after Lee to the battle of Gettysburg, where, after three days' terrific fighting, Lee retreated across the Potomac. After following him to Falling Waters our army was put in motion for Vir- ginia, and struck the enemy again near Culpeper. The Second Corps had been in a severe fight with a portion of the enemy at Auburn Hill and Bristoe Station, Cap- tain Hazard's command taking a very important part in the result of the day.

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Soon after, the army went into winter quarters on the Rapidan. In April, 1864, Captain Hazard was made major of his regiment, and assigned to the command of the Second Brigade of the Artillery Reserves. When the army broke camp on the 4th of May, he accompanied his brigade to the Wilderness; thence to Spottsylvania, where the brigade was attached to that part of General Tidball's, of the Second Corps, with which he continued through the battle of the Po, Mattapony, North Anna and Cold Harbor, to Petersburg. On July 1, 1864, Gen- eral Tidball was ordered to West Point as commander, and the consolidated brigade was placed under Major Hazard's command. The brigade was engaged almost daily from May 5 until August 1; from that time, until about September I, it remained quiet, with the excep- tion of the battle of Deep Bottom, and the unfortunate repulse at Ream's Station, where he lost eight guns and all the officers of Battery B, captured by the enemy.

On August 8, Major Hazard was made lieutenant- colonel by brevet, for "gallant and meritorious services." During the fall and winter of 1864 his command occu- pied various forts in the works in front of Petersburg, at times withdrawing a few batteries for some of the various moves and expeditions sent out during the win- ter. Most of the time he occupied the line, Colonel Hazard had in his command nineteen light, four heavy and six mortar batteries, stationed at the most impor- tant points and requiring the greatest care and watchful- ness. On March 28 the brigade broke camp and moved with the corps across Hatcher's Run, where they engaged the enemy, in connection with the grand advance of the whole army. Richmond and Petersburg falling, they pursued the enemy to Appomattox Court House, their corps being immediately on the heels of Lee's army. They were constantly skirmishing with them to the very hour of their surrender. The last battle engaged in was at Farmersville, April 7 and 8. On May 3, 1865, Lieutenant-Colonel Hazard was made colonel and briga- dier-general by brevet "for meritorious service during the war." He was recommended for these brevets by his superior officers several months prior. He accom- panied his brigade from Virginia to Washington, and participated in the Grand Review. At the disbanding of the artillery, he was ordered to report with his regiment (Colonel Tompkins having been mustered out) to Rhode Island, and on July I was mustered out. On July 11, General Hazard was commissioned colonel of the Fifth United States Volunteers, retaining his brevet rank of brigadier-general, and ordered by the Secretary of War to make his headquarters at Fort Wadsworth, S. I., New York harbor, and he commanded that post until March 9, 1866, when his regiment was mustered out of service. After the war the greater part of the active business life of General Hazard was passed in the South, making his headquarters at New Orleans, engaged in the cotton business. He made a number of business trips abroad.

General Hazard died May 15, 1897, in Providence, R. I. His funeral took place from Grace Episcopal Church, May 18, there being present besides friends a large representation of the Loyal Legion, of which the deceased had been a member. The interment was at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence. The Providence "Daily Journal," in its issue for May 19, 1897, said :

The reputation which General Hazard earned by his valor during the struggle of the Rebellion was well sustained by his upright life in the time of peace which followed its close. That he held the love and respect of all who knew him was fully evidenced by the large number of friends who gathered in the church to pay the last tribute possible to the deceased.

The Providence "News," for May 18, 1897, also paid him a tribute :

The late John Gardiner Hazard, to whose memory the last tributes are to-day paid, was one of Rhode Island's gallant soldiers during the War of the Rebel- lion, and though his business career was made outside the home boundaries, he had a large acquaintance here and was greatly liked and esteemed in many circles. His sudden death was a shock to these many friends, for though the severe service of the soldier had un- doubtedly had Its effects on his physical constitution, he had all the spirit of young manhood, and was a charming associate wherever he moved.

LAURISTON HARTWELL HAZARD-In 1894 the Hazard Cotton Company was organized in the city of Providence, Captain Jeffrey Hazard, president; Lan- riston H. Hazard, treasurer. Captain Hazard, a brave officer of the Union, has long since gone to his reward, but his son, Lauriston H., still holds the position to which he was elected in 1894. He is a grandson of John and Margaret (Crandall) Hazard (q. v.), whose two sons, General John Gardiner Hazard and Captain Jeffrey Hazard, were two of the gallant sons of Rhode Island, who won fame in the war between the States.

Captain Jeffrey Hazard, second son of John and Mar- garet (Crandall) Hazard, and brother of General John G. Hazard, was born in Exeter, R. I., September 23, 1835, and died in Providence, R. I., November 21, 1911. He was educated in the graded and high schools of Providence, and began business life in the Manufac- turers' Bank, holding the position of teller at the time he enlisted for service in the Union army, October 5, 1861. He went to the front as second lieutenant, Bat-

tery A, First Rhode Island Light Artillery. Later he was commissioned first lieutenant, and appointed regi- mental adjutant. With Battery A he saw hard service, and in many battles won high praise for his bravery. He fought at Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, Fair Oaks, Mal- vern Hill, and Antietam, the only battery officers pres- ent at the last-named battle being Lieutenants Hazard and Mason. But the battery covered itself with glory, and on October 10, 1862, Lieutenant Hazard became captain, and was assigned to Battery H, Rhode Island Light Artillery, a battery recruited in Providence. He commanded Battery H until August 17, 1863, when he resigned and returned to Providence.

After his return from the war, Captain Hazard en- tered the employ of the American Wood Pulp Company, at Providence, later going with William H. Reynolds, a cotton broker, with whom he remained until 1868. In that year he formed a partnership with A. Duncan Chapin, and as Hazard & Chapin the firm conducted a successful cotton brokerage business for a period of twenty-six years, 1868-94. In the last-named year the Hazard Cotton Company was incorporated, Captain Jef- frey Hazard, president; Lauriston H. Hazard, treasurer; F. O. Allen, secretary. As executive head of the com- pany bearing his name, Captain Hazard had greater scope for his business ability, and until death, seventeen years later, he continued the active, resourceful, suc- cessful business man. At the time of his death he was

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the oldest cotton merchant in Providence in active busi- ness.

The family politics had hitherto been Democratic, but Captain Hazard opposed his father and brother and acted with the Republican party, although he had no desire for political office, nor did he accept one during his entire lifetime. He was a companion of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Mas- sachusetts Commandery; member of Prescott Post, No. I, Grand Army of the Republic, of Providence; member of the Maine Artillery Veteran Corps of Providence; member and vestryman of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church; member of the Providence Art Club, Squan- tum Association and Hope Club. He was a man highly esteemed socially, and was universally admired for his genial, manly nature and disposition.

Captain Hazard married, October 20, 1865, Anna Hartwell, daughter of John B. and Harriet (Hall) Hartwell, of Providence. Mr. and Mrs. Hazard were the parents of : Lauriston Hartwell, of further men- tion; John Hartwell, died young; Margaret Crandall, died young ; Marion, married Leland H. Littlefield, of Providence; Harriet Hall, married William H. Dixon ; Anna Rosalind, married William H. Barnum.

Lauriston Hartwell Hazard was born in Providence, R. I., November 22, 1866, and is a "true native son," one of the city's successful business men. He was educated in private schools, Providence High School, and Brown University, receiving his Bachelor's degree from Brown with the graduating class of 1889. The business in which his honored father was engaged appealed to him, and immediately after leaving the University he entered the employ of the cotton brokerage firm, Hazard & Chapin. When in 1904 the business was incorporated as the Hazard Cotton Company, he was elected treas- urer, a post he has most ably filled for fourteen years. The company is an important factor in the cotton mar- ket, has widely-extended connections and transacts a large business. In club and social life Mr. Hazard is very popular, belonging to the Agawam Hunt Club, Providence Art Club, and Hope Club, of which he is president, and to the Squantum Association. His fav- ored philanthropy is the Rhode Island Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, of which he is an ex- president, and since 1913 he has been a trustee of But- ler Hospital. Member of Rhode Island Board of Parole, appointed by Governor Beeckman, when the board was instituted. He is a vestryman of Grace Protestant Episcopal Church, an office his father also held, and in politics he is a Republican.

Mr. Hazard married, June 19, 1907, Elizabeth Paine Sackett, daughter of Adjutant-General Frederic Mosley and Emma Louise (Paine) Sackett, and a granddaugh- ter of Adnah Sackett, who came to Providence when a lad, became head of the jewelry manufacturing firm, Sackett, Davis & Company, and was one of the leading Democrats of the State and twice party candidate for Governor. Mr. and Mrs. Hazard are the parents of two daughters: Elizabeth and Marion.

HERVEY ARMINGTON, M. D .- For more than two hundred years the name of Armington has been one of the best known in New England. Descendants of the original settler have during that period played

prominent parts in public and official life, in military affairs, in the professions, and in business and commer- cial enterprises. The family has flourished in those parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island which immediately adjoin each other, and its sons have left the imprint of their lives on the communities wherein they have resided. The name is found frequently in Revolution- ary rosters, in connection with both the army and navy, and is found in the high places during that period of upbuilding which followed the close of the Revolu- tionary War, and has continued since that early time to grow in prestige and honor. Loyalty, patriotism, able and signal service has brought honor to the house and entitled it to high rank among the families which have done much for our country.

It is with the line of descent from the founder of the late Hervey Armington, and his distinguished for- bears, Asa Watson Armington, a well known figure in the financial world of Providence, R. I., in the middle of the nineteenth century, and the late Hon. James Hervey Armington, that this article is to deal. The arms of the Armington family is as follows :

Arms-Per chevron or and azure, in chief two lions rampant combatant of the second, in base a lion ram- pant of the first.

(I) Joseph Armington, immigrant ancestor and founder of the line in America, was born on the Island of Guernsey, Great Britain. He came from England to the American Colonies in 1714, settling in Boston, Mass., where he remained for a short time. He re- turned to England on business, and died there in 1715. His wife, a woman of great culture and unusual education for the time, after the death of her husband established a school in Roxbury, Mass., where she taught French.

(Il) Joseph (2) Armington, son of Joseph (1) Arm- ington, was born about 1707, on the Island of Guern- sey, Great Britain, and accompanied his parents to America. Upon reaching his majority he removed to Rehoboth, Mass., where he established himself, and where he died on August 15, 1746. He followed the trade of brick-maker. Joseph (2) Armington married in Rehoboth, Mass., May 27, 1729, Hannah Chaffee, born October 3, 1707, daughter of Jonathan and Han- nah (Carpenter ) Chaffee. (See Chaffee IV). "Han- nah, widow of Joseph," died at Rehoboth, February 22, 1799. Their children were: Nicholas, born Jan. 12, 1730; Joseph, mentioned below; Josiah, July 28, 1733; John, June 12, 1735; Deliverance, Oct. 24, 1737; Sus- annah, Jan. 9, 1739; Hannah, April 20, 1742; Josiah (2), April 4, 1744; William, Nov. 22, 1746.

(III) Joseph (3) Armington, son of Joseph (2) and Hannah (Chaffee) Armington, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., June 4, 1731. He was a prominent citizen of the town, and a farmer, as were most men of the period. He married, April 19, 1760, Esther Walker, of Rehoboth, daughter of Daniel and Hannah (Barstow) Walker. (See Walker VI). Their children were: Nathan, born Nov. 7, 1761; Susanna, Sept. 29, 1762; Nancy, May 14, 1765; Asa, mentioned below; Walker, March 6, 1769; Benjamin, Aug. 27, 1771; Joseph, March 31, 1774; Esther, March 17, 1777; George, June 17, 1779; Sylvester Ambrose, Aug. 19, 1782; Gardner, July 6, 1785; Hannah B., Aug. 21, 1787; James Gardiner, Sept. 9, 1789; Daniel, Oct. 12, 1791.

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(IV) Asa Armington, son of Joseph (3) and Esther (Walker) Armington, was born April 19, 1767. He married Bethia Remington, and they were the parents of the following children: Asa Watson, born Aug. 18, 1791; Dr. Hervey, mentioned below; Ira, April 28, 1795; Polly W., April 1, 1798; Mary A., Dec. 31, 1800; Ira (2), May 1, 1803; Horace W., Sept. 22, 1805, died and was buried in the Bay of Honduras; Emma B., Jan. 31, 1808.

(V) Dr. Hervey Armington, son of Asa and Bethia (Remington) Armington, was born July 25, 1793. His death occurred in Providence, R. I., on August 3, 1868. It would be impossible to give a better or more com- prehensive account of his life, one which showed more clearly the regard in which he was held in Providence, the feeling of the public toward the man and the phy- sician whom it loved and revered, than the sketch of his life, published in the Providence "Daily Journal," under the date of August 8, 1868:

Dr. Hervey Armington, whose death we have al- ready announced, was one of our oldest physicians, and his departure from us deserves something more than a simple record of the fact. Dr. Armington was descended from Joseph Armington, who, with his family, came to Boston from England in the year 1714. He was born in Barrington, R. I., and his ele- mentary education was obtained in a common country school. He subsequently completed his course of in- struction at an academy at Leicester, Mass. During his minority he spent several years in a seafaring life, for which he had a fondness, and as second mate, and afterward as chief mate, sailed to Virginia, thence to Brazil, touching at some ports in Portugal. The War of 1812 broke up commercial marine, dissipated the golden dreams of this peaceful vocation, and led to the opening of a business in a country store. This proving unsuccessful it was abandoned, and the steps of enterprise were turned to the west. Previous to 1812 young Armington proceeded to Cincinnati, Ohio, taking passage to Philadelphia in a schooner just started as a pioneer in the regular freighting business, thence travelling on foot to Pittsburgh, and from that place descending the Ohio in a skiff built by himself and his travelling companion. In Cincinnati he en- gaged in the study of medicine in the office of Drs. Hough and Whitman, and after completing his pre- paratory studies became a student in the Ohio Medical College, at the head of which was the late Daniel Drake. M. D. While pursuing his medical studies, he set up soda water fountains (the first probably in the West, in Maysville, Chillicothe, St. Louis, Louisville), and thus contributed to the cause of temperance by substituting a wholesome and delightful beverage for intoxicating liquors. In 1822 he was graduated with the honors of the institution, and after receiving his degree established himself in a settlement (if we mistake not, called "Yankeetown"), about thirty-seven miles from Cincinnati. Here he continued but a single season. Dr. Armington remained in the West nearly five years, when he returned to Providence and engaged in the drug business, practicing his profes- sion occasionally. He likewise engaged in trade in connection with navigation but failing of anticipated success he returned to the practice of medicine, which became extensive, and in which he ever afterward continued. He was a member of the Rhode Island Medical Society, and for nine years its treasurer. He was also at one time president of the Providence As- sociation of Physicians, and enjoyed the fullest con- fidence and respect of his associates. His medical practice covered a period of about forty years.

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The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, V. IV, Part 4

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn Publication date: 1920 Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society Number of Pages: 978

Author: Bicknell, Thomas Williams, 1834-1925. cn
Publication date: 1920
Publisher: New York, The American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 978