Brief Life History of Thomas Sylvester
When Thomas Sylvester Hazard was born on 27 July 1760, in North Kingstown, Kings, Rhode Island, British Colonial America, his father, Stephen Hazard, was 31 and his mother, Elizabeth Carpenter, was 18. He married Silence Knowles about 1782. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. In 1775, his occupation is listed as sea captain in early life.. He died on 23 November 1843, in Suffield, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, at the age of 83.
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- Thomas S. Hazard, "Connecticut Deaths and Burials, 1772-1934"
- Book, "The Hazard Family of Rhode Island" by Caroline E Robinson, 1896
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Name Meaning
English: Anglo-Norman French variant of Hansard .
English and French: nickname from Old French, Middle English hasard, hazard ‘game of dice’, perhaps given to a player at hazard, i.e. a gambler, trickster, or rascal. The word probably derives from Arabic az-zahr, from az, assimilated form of the definite article al, + zahr ‘die’. It appears to have been picked up in the Holy Land and brought back to Europe by Provençal crusaders.
English: possibly in some instances of Flemish origin, a nickname from Middle Dutch hasart ‘hare’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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