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history of the Second Presbj-terian church, Phil- adelphia, is closely associated, and with that church the Hazard family was intimately con- nected, either as elder, treasurer or trustee, from 1750. They had religious disputes with the Moravian leader, Count Zinzendorf. Samuel Hazard's most ambitious undertaking was a vast scheme for Christianizing the Indians by settling a portion of the great west, gi'anted to him by the state of Connecticut, and under a royal grant of George II. He had enrolled over 5000 per.sons who had agreed to go out and settle there, and had it not been for delays in getting the grant, some 10,000, including many prominent people, would have enrolled. While overcoming these delays he died after a sickness of three days and the enterprise failed for want of a leader. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., July 14, 1758.

HAZARD, Samuel, arch?eologist, was born in Philadelpliia, Pa., May 26, 1784; son of Ebenezer Hazard, U.S. postmaster-general; and grandson of Samuel Hazard, original trustee of the College of New Jersey. He was employed in commercial business in Philadelphia and made several voy- ages to the Mediterranean and to the West Indies. He engaged in the cotton business in Hunts ville, Ala., 1818-27, when he returned to Philadelphia, engaged as a publisher and book- seller, and was secretary of the Board of Guar- dians of the poor of the city, 1827-34. In 1850 he was elected an honorary member of the Pennsyl- vania historical society, and from 1862 until his sight failed, he was librarian. He was a mem- ber of many learned societies; secretary of the board of trustees of the Presbyterian church for twenty-eight years, and was on the committee for building tlie Second Presbyterian church and signed the deeds for it. He was married to Abbie Clark Hetfield of Elizabeth, N.J., and had nine children. He devoted much time to literary work; prepared and published Communication tn the Board of Trustees, embodying all the facts about the history of the Second Presbyterian church, and is the author of: Begister of Pennsyl- vania (16 vols., 1828-36) ; United States Commercial and Statistical Becjister (6 vols., 1839-42) ; Annals of Pennsylvania, 1609-82 (1850); Pennsylvania Archives, 1682-1790 (12 vols., 1853) ; and an index to the previous (28) volumes for the state (1860). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 22, 1870.

HAZARD, Samuel, publisher, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., March 1, 1834; son of Samuel and Abbie Clark (Hetfield) Hazard. He was in business with his father and brother, Willis Pope, as a bookseller in 1861 and left his business to enter the 6tli Pennsylvania cavalry, "Rush's Lancers." He was made lieutenant, Sept. 12, 1861; served until April 30, 1862; and resigned on account of iU health. In September, 1863, he

recruited a company for the 152d Pennsylvania volunteers, 3d artillery. Colonel Roberts, and was mustered in as captain, Feb. 11, 1863. He served at Fort Munroe during 1865. In the Petersburg campaign of 1864-05, commanded a detachment at I'ort Converse under Gen. Charles K. Graham, resigned on surgeon's certificate of disability, Feb. 13, 1865, and was brevetted major, March 13, 1865. With his health broken by his services he continued in the publishing business, twice visited Cuba, and his book entitled " Cuba with Pen and Pencil" (1870), illustrated by himself, had a large .sale. Later, as correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, and on the stalf of the Santo Domingo commission, sent out by President Grant, he wrote, " Santo Domingo, ^ast and Present, with a Glance at Hayti " (1872). He was married, June 1, 1871, to Blanche Crissy Peabody, widow of William Massey, Jr., and visited Europe for his health. He returned in 1875 and died in Philadelpliia, Pa., Jan. 10, 1876. HAZARD, Thomas Robinson, author, was born in South Kingstown, R.I., Jan. 3, 1797; son of Rowland and 3Iary (Peace) Hazard and a descendant in the seventh generation of Thomas Hazard, one of the original settlers and pro- prietors of the Island of Aquidneck, who, with Nicholas Easton and Robert Jeffries, laid out the town of Newport, R.I., in 1639. He attended the Friends' boarding school at Westtown, Pa., 1809- 13, and in 1813 engaged in the manufacture of cotton and woolen goods at Peace Dale, R.I., succeeding his father. In 1840 he retired from business and settled at his coimtry seat " Vau- cluse," near Newport. From youth he was inter- ested in agriculture and sheep raising, keeping large flocks of sheep which he cared for himself, thus acquiring the soubriquet " Shepherd Tom." He was conspicuous in reforming the management of the poor and insane in the state of Rhode Island, inaugurated the movement that resulted in the abolition of capital punishment in that state, and was a promoter of the movement in the United States for the relief of the Irish famine and a liberal contributor to the relief fund. He was made a life director and vice- president of the African colonization society in 1840. In October, 1838, he was married to Frances, daughter of Jonas and Esther (Rob- inson) Minturn of New York city. She died at "Vaucluse," April 10. 1854. In 1856 he became a convert to spiritualism. His published volumes include: Facts for the Laboring Man (1840) ; Capital Punishment (1850) ; Bejjort on the Poor and Insane (1850) : Handbook of the National American Party (1856) ; Appeal to the People of Bhode Island (1857) ; Ordeal of Life (1870) ; and Bec- ollections of Olden Times by Shepherd Tom (1879). He died in New York City, March 26, 1886.