Friday, February 17, 2023

52 Ancestors - Week 468: #745 Elizabeth (Helme) Hazard (1677-1727) of North and South Kingstown, Rhode Island

Elizabeth Helme (1677-1727)  is #745 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandmother, who married #744 Stephen Hazard (1665-1727)  in about 1694 in North Kingstown, Rhode Island.

I am descended through:

*  their son, #372 Thomas Hazard (17071748), married #373 Hannah Slocum (1710-1737), in 1727.
*  their son #186 Stephen Hazard (1730-1804), married #187 Elizabeth Carpenter (1741-????) in 1760.
*  their daughter #93 Mary Hazard (1765-1857), married # 92 Joseph Oatley (1756-1815) in 1781.
*  their son #46 Jonathan Oatley (1790-1872), married #47 Amy Champlin (1798-1865) in 1813.
*  their daughter #23 Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864), married #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                    Elizabeth Helme[1–3]
*  Alternate Name:    Elizabeth Haszard[4]

*  Sex:                        Female

*  Father:                   Rouse Helme 1644-1712
*  Mother:                 Mary Eldred 1646-1712

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                      1677, South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1–2]

*  Distribution:           9 June 1712 (about age 35), father's will proved; South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[4]

*  Death:                    before 19 September 1727 (about age 50), South Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[5]

3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

* Spouse 1:                Stephen Hazard (1665-1727)
*  Marriage 1:            about 1694 (about age 17), North Kingstown, Washington, Rhode Island, United States[1,3]

*  Child 1:                 Mary Hazard 1695-    
*  Child 2:                 Hannah Hazard 1697-    
*  Child 3:                 Susannah Hazard 1699-1756
*  Child 4:                 Stephen Hazard 1700-1746
*  Child 5:                 Robert Hazard 1702-1751
*  Child 6 :                Samuel Hazard 1705-    
*  Child 7 :                Thomas Hazard 1707-1748
*  Child 8:                 Elizabeth Hazard 1709-1774
*  Child 9:                 Sarah Hazard 1711-    

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

Elizabeth Helme was born in about 1677 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island, the daughter of Rouse and Mary (Eldred) Helme[1-2].

She married Stephen Hazard (1665-1727) in about 1694 in North Kingstown, Rhode Island[1,3].  He was the son of Robert and Mary (Brownell) Hazard. They had nine children, all born, and seven of the nine recorded, in North Kingstown town records[1]:

*  Mary Hazard (1695-????).
*  Hannah Hazard (1697-????), married 1717 Joseph Mumford (1691-????)
*  Susannah Hazard (1699-1756), married 1718 Samuel Perry (1695-1775).
*  Stephen Hazard (1700-1746), married 1723 Mary Robinson (1703-1780).
*  Robert Hazard (1702-1751), married 1728 Esther Stanton (1708-????).
*  Samuel Hazard (1705-????), married 1730 Abigail Mumford (1705-????)
*  Thomas Hazard (1707-1748), married 1727 Hannah Slocum (1710-1737).
*  Elizabeth Hazard (1709-1774), married 1729 Benjamin Perry (1700-1772).
*  Sarah Hazard (1711-????).

He father, Rowse Helme of Kingstown wrote a will that was proved on 9 June 1712 in South Kingstown, Rhode Island town records.  In his will, he provided for his daughter, Elizabeth Haszard wife of Stephen Haszard[4].

Her husband, Stephen Hazard, yeoman of South Kingstown, died testate on 29 September 1727 in South Kingstown, having written a will dated 19 September 1727, which was proved 9 October 1727.

Elizabeth is not mentioned in his will, and probably died before 19 September 1727 in South Kingstown[5].

5.  SOURCES

1. Caroline Robinson Hazard, The Hazard Family of Rhode Island, 1635-1894 : Being a Genealogy and History of the Descendants of Thomas Hazard, With Sketches of the Worthies of This Family, and Anecdotes Illustrative of Their Traits and Also of the Times in which They Lived (Boston, Mass. : by the author, 1895), pages 11-12, #8 Stephen Hazard family sketch.

2. Richard LeBaron Bowen, "The Mother of Christopher Helme," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 98, Number 1 (January 1944), pages 11-25, Rouse Helme family sketch.

3. "U.S. New England Marriages Prior to 1700," indexed database with digital images, Ancestry.com  (https://www.ancestry.com), page 361, Stephen Hazard and Elizabeth Helme marriage entry, before 1695.

4. Alden G. Beaman, "Abstracts of South Kingstown Wills," Rhode Island Genealogical Register (The Rhode Island Genealogical Research Institute), (April 1982), page 322, Rouse Helme will, 1712.

5. South Kingston (R.I.) Town Clerk, "Town Council Records, 1704-1943,"  (South Kingston, R.I.), on 8 microfilm reels (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah), Volume 2, Pages 78-87, Stephen Hazard probate papers, accessed on FHL Microfilm US/CAN 0,931,833.

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 
 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2023 to 520 Ancestors in 520 Weeks.


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