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an example of the deceitfulness of the human heart. It was a point of doctrine he had always sought to inculcate in his preaching, but he at last discovered, he said, "( that he himself had ruled South Kingstown monthly meeting forty years, in his own will, before he found it out!" 1

As Mrs. Hutchinson and her followers appeared in the very early part of our narrative, Jemima Wilkinson appears in these last years. She had her following on Kingston Hill, the Little Rest which under her despotic sway must have literally deserved its name. Husbands were parted from wives, and children from parents. She attempted to raise the dead; the Universal Friend became the author of discord. In 1784, the year which saw the culmination of so many of Thomas Hazard's hopes, she left Narragansett for her "New Jerusalem" in the Genesee Country.? What Thomas Hazard thought of these proceedings we do not know. It is another instance of the individualism which marked the Narragansett Country that the prophetess flourished in it so long.

1 T. R. Hazard, Recollection of Olden Times, p. 108. 2 Updike, p. 233.

But New Lights, and Ranters, and wars, and demolitions by fire, began to lose their interest to the old man so touchingly described by his daughter-in-law.

MARY PEACE HAZARD TO ROWLAND HAZARD.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, Oct. 17, 1796.

As to thy father or mother taking charge of it (the farm) it is impossible for thy father seems to notice nothing. He is no more than a child. I do not think he can live much longer. He goes to meeting of a first day but the only way he knows when it comes is by having a clean shirt given him to put on. He does not go on fifth days because he does not know when it comes. He has at present, I believe, gotten a bad cold for his back is so lame he cannot turn himself in bed. He has been so for three or four days. Thy mother is also very poorly. There is scarcely ever a day but she is obliged to lie down three or four times. She has been the same way all the spring and summer. She has got a complaint I hardly think she will get rid of. Dr. Easton has been to see her several times but he does not do her any

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good. He has been over here on account of a lawsuit he has with Tommy Hazard the blacksmith and stayed here night before last. Thy mother talked with him about herself. He has promised to send her some medicine over by the first opportunity but he does not seem to have much faith in it himself. He told her she might depend upon it that if it did her no good it would do her no harm.

There were still two years which College Tom had to live, and it is almost a relief to find the entry in the Friends Meeting Records,

Thomas Hazard Son of Robert and Sarah Hazard Departed this Life the 26th of 8th M° 1798 about 8 o'clock in the Evening and was buried the 28th of the Same Who Was in the 78th year of his age1

That is all; there is no word of eulogy, no mention of his long and faithful service, no statement even of the meeting for his funeral, or the place of his burial. Tradition says that his grave was made in the burial

1 S.K.M. M. Records of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. "Old Book," p. 27.

ground of the old Meeting-house he loved, but the life that he lived, a life full of the faithful performance of the daily duty, full of high and strenuous endeavor for all right thinking and noble living, the life which served his own day so well, has left its impress upon succeeding generations.

APPENDIX.

SELECTIONS FROM COLLEGE TOM'S

PAPERS.

1698-1795.

I. MR. SAMuell Sewall's Deed.

(Parchment, twenty-six inches by thirteen.)

THIS INDENTURE made the Twenty Eighth day of Aprill Anno Domi One thousand Six hundred Ninety and Eight And in the Tenth Yeare of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord King William the Third over England &c. BETWEEN Samuell Sewall of Boston in the County of Suffolke within his Majties Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Esqr and Hannah his wife of the one part, and Thomas Hazard of Boston Neck in the Kings Province or Narragansett Country in New England aforesaid Yeoman on the other part WITTNESSETH that the said Samuell Sewall and Hannah his said wife for and in Consideraton of the Summe of Seaven Hundred Pounds Current money of New England to them in hand paid and Secured in the Law to be paid att and