The son did come for part of each year, both the older brothers having left home, and the grandchildren continued to be her pleasure and comfort. She survived her husband, and died in 1803, beloved by all who knew her. CHAPTER IX. Thomas Hazard's Farming. The Susquehanna Company. "A Letter from Quebeck." Paper Money. Varieties of Coins. Lending Money. Lotteries. Revolutionary Days. Non-resistance. "Trash." Rate Bills. Cattle Distrained. FROM the study of the account book of Thomas Hazard son of Robert, it is evident that agriculture was the main business of his life, as was the case with all the Narragansett planters. His homestead farm, which by will he leaves to his eldest son, ran from the "county Rhode," that is, the Pequot path of the early days, eastward till it was bounded by the Pettaquamscut River and cove. The sedge rights are also bequeathed with this farm, which is called about one hundred and fifty acres. To his youngest son he leaves a farm on the west of the road of about the same size. These are the only farms mentioned especially, the rest is spoken of as "all the Remainder of my Lands and real Estate." He had his grandfather's love of land, and beside what was left him by his father and grandfather added to his estate by purchase. In 1764 he bought land in Westerly and "Charles Town" and later some in Cranston and Dartmouth. The price of land near home was very variable. In 1778 one acre was bought from Peleg Peckham for £21, and ten years later Jeremiah Willson sold thirtyseven acres for ninety pounds. Beside the land in South Kingstown, Thomas Hazard and his brothers Jonathan and Richard were left joint heirs to their father's interest in the "Susquehanna Company" in which he is called a proprietor. This company held its meetings at Hartford, or at Windham in Connecticut, and in 1768, Thomas Hazard made a journey to the latter place to transact business, on his brother Jonathan's account as well as his own, and also for S. Hazard, probably one of the many Stephen Hazards, who gives a power of attorney to "my Friend Thomas Hassard, of South Kingstown." Richard, the third brother, died in 1762 as before mentioned. His son Robert's affairs seem to have fallen into some disorder, for in 1776 he signs a release of guardianship to Thomas, his uncle, "not meaning hereby doceived of debout stofson Esql of fouth Kingstown on y Cloney of Karson те Kreived Wome ་་་ |