Person:Mary Hazard (25)

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Mary Ann Hazard
 
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Name Mary Ann Hazard
Alt Name Nancy _____
Gender Female
Birth? Abt 1798 New Jersey, United Statesher mother died shortly after her birth
Marriage 10 Jun 1818 Flushing, Queens, New York, United StatesLong Island ; by Rev. Barzilla Buckley
to James Campbell, Esq.
References
  1.   Gouverneur, Marian. As I Remember: recollections of American society during the nineteenth century. (New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1911).

    ... Captain Hazard brought his new bride to the old home on the Rockaway Road where I was subsequently born, and she immediately took under her protecting wing my mother, who was then but little more than an infant. The babe grew and thrived, and never knew until she was a good-sized girl that the woman who had so lovingly nurtured her was only a step-mother. She learned the fact[6] from a schoolmate who told her out of revenge for some fancied wrong; and I shall always remember my mother telling me how she hurried home feeling all the time that the cruel story was untrue, only to have it confirmed by the lips of the woman who had been as affectionate and unselfish as any mother could possibly have been to her own child. ...