[3104.ftw]
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 22, Ed. 1, Tree #3104, Date of Import: Dec 9, 1998]
of Beaufort, GA; also of SC. He descended from ancestors who came from England to America. The facts said to have been proven in England, were in substance as follows:(written by Mary Floyd Hamilton) "During the Crusade, a Duke of Charenette, then Southern France, owing allegiance to the Kings of England, was slain, and his youngest son alone was left. He with his mother, escaped to England, where he took the title attached to the English estates, and the mother married the King's physician, Dr. Fulke. At the sivil wars of the Commonwealth, the then Lord or King, as the Loyalist, was dispossessed of his estates, and they were sold to a cousin, who had adhered to the Commonwealth. On the restoration of the King, willing to conciliate as many of the landholders of the lost estates as possible, compensated our ancestors by the gift of a Colonel's Commission and 20,000 acres of land in Carolina in 1715.
His direct heir, it seems Richard Hazzard, came to Carolina, took lands on or about Broad River. He had 2 sons William and Richard. William's family we trace direct to Richard the first settle. William Hazzard of Carolina, no doubt descended from Richard, one of the tow sons of Richard the elder
Mrs. Waight, sister of William Hazzard sent letter addressed to " Cousin Richard" for Isabelle Hazzard, when about 12 years old, wishing to adopt her as a daugher, she having no children; which she did, obtaining her father's consent, as he had married a second wife, Miss Jannette McLeod, and had other children. Mrs. Wight acted the part of a kind mother to her you relative, who had been deprived of hers; sent her to school, and cared for her until she m. John Floyd.
While Richard Hazzard was living in Florida, his house and all his papers were burned by set of outlaws going about the country and calling themselves "Regulators."
Richard Hazzard 
- b.WFT Est. 1633-1662 d.WFT Est. 1685-1725
- b.WFT Est. 1680-1700 d.WFT Est. 1701-1774