death_place death_date children birth_place birth_date spouse article_title education name occupation
portsmouth , rhode island after 1677 robert , elizabeth , hannah , martha possibly dorsetshire , england by 1610 -lrb- -lrb- _______ -rrb- sheriff 1 -rrb- martha potter -lrb- 2 -rrb- martha thomas hazard
 signed name with a mark thomas hazard ship carpenter
thomas hazard

thomas hazard -lrb- 1610 - after 1677 -rrb- was one of the nine founding settlers of newport on aquidneck island -lrb- rhode island -rrb- in the colony of rhode island and providence plantations .
he settled in boston and portsmouth before settling newport , but later returned to portsmouth .
his descendants include commodores oliver hazard perry and matthew c. perry and three colonial rhode island deputy governors .
