Jeffrey Hazard

Jeffrey Hazard (1762 – 1840)^[1] was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1810 to May 1818,^[2] and Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode Island from 1833 to 1835, and from 1836 to 1837.^[1]

Hazard's father, in his will, dated June 1, 1773, probated December 14, 1773, gives "my son Jeffrey all my lands lying in Exeter and in West Greenwich".^[1]

In addition his service as a supreme court justice and as lieutenant governor, Hazard was also "for many years Representative in the General Assembly, and chief justice of the Court of Common Pleas".^[1]

Hazard married Amey, daughter of Thomas Tillinghast; she was born in 1773, and died June 3, 1870. They had a large family.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Caroline Elizabeth Robinson, The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635-1894 (1896), p. 113.
^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.

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[Hazard_Family-1] Caroline Elizabeth Robinson, The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635-1894 (1896), p. 113.

[2] Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.

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