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- He was Deputy in 1745, '48, '52, '53, '55, '56; in 1757 he was Assistant;in 1745 he was appointed Major, and in 1748, Colonel, by which title heis best known by his descendants. In 1725, he being then twenty-one yearsof age, his father, Colonel George Hazard, conveyed to him a 'certaintract of land, being by estimation ten acres, be it more or less . . .with all Housings, Mills, Presses, Shears, and other things which maytend or belong to the Cloathing trade.' This property was the fullingmill established by his father, Colonel George Hazard, in 1722-3, nearwhat is now known as Moorsfield, at a place called Lawton's saw-mill. Theland was a part of the homestead farm of Robert (2) Hazard. This wholefarm of three hundred acres was given to Colonel Thomas by will, in 1743,and by him sold to John Rose in 1748. The residence of Colonel Thomas isnot precisely known, although he was certainly living in Boston Neck in1752, when his daughter Sarah was married to her second cousin, GeorgeHazard, son of George, and grandson of Thomas (3) Hazard.
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