Thomas Hazard (1724 - 1804)

Descendants

Biography

Thomas was born in 1724. He moved his family to Prince Edward Isalnd with his second wife prior to 1802. He brought slaves with him to the Island. ^[1]

Slaves were passed down through families and, in some cases, a new generation of slaves was born on the Island. For example, in 1802, Island slaveholder Thomas Haszard gave “to grand Daughter Hariot Clarissa Haszard and my grand Daughter [Louisa] Haszard one molatta girl about five years of age, named Catharine.” Haszard also sold to William Haszard “a certain mollatta Boy of three years of age called Simon.” Given the relatively late date of this sale and the age of the child slaves, it is clear that the Haszard family intended to keep a new generation of slaves. Colonel Robinson also owned the children of his slave Amelia and, as he made clear in his ledger, an offer of freedom for Amelia and her husband did not extend to their children. In Prince Edward Island, slavery lasted a few generations and masters remained loath to give up the cheap labor that their slaves provided. They were, so to speak, a renewable resource.

He passed away in 1804.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Slave Life and Slave Law in Colonial Prince Edward Island, 1769-1825, Whitfeild, Harvey Amani, 2009:
2. ↑ http://www.islandregister.com/haszard1.html

• "Slave Life and Slave Law in Colonial Prince Edward Island, 1769-1825." Whitfeild, Harvey Amani. Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2009. [1]