Recollections of Olden Times

by Thomas Robinson Hazard

1879

Rowland Robinson (1719-1806), son of Governor William Robinson, came to Narragansett from England. He married Anstis Gardiner in 1741. Ancestry is traced to Rowland Robinson who was born in Cumberland, England in 1654 and came to America in 1675. He married Mary Allen (1656-1706) and later died in 1716 in South Kingston, Rhode Island. The Hazards are traced to Duke de Charante, ca. 1060, living on the borders of Switzerland. The Hazards of Rhode Island are traced to Thomas Hassard who settled in Rhode Island, ca. 1639. Descendants lived in Vermont, Rhode Island, South Carolina, New York, and elsewhere. James Sweet, son of Isaac and Mary, came to America from Wales in 1630 and settled in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. He married Mary Green.

Patten genealogy

by Thomas Williams Baldwin

1908

William Patten and his family were living at Cambridge, Massachusetts, by 1635. He and his wife, Mary (d. 1673), had at least six children, the youngest four born at Cambridge. He died at Cambridge in 1668. Descendants of his sons, Thomas Patten (1638-1690) and Nathaniel Patten (1643-1725), listed lived in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, Illinois, and elsewhere.