1.   Historical note

2.   Scope and content

3.   Provenance

4.   Processing note

5.   Inventory

6.   Subjects


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 Anna Hazard Land Company Records

 Land management company, South Kingstown, R.I.

 Records, 1910-1947

 Size: 2 linear feet

 Catalog number: MSS 483 sg 19

 Processed by: Rick Stattler and Steve Dalpe, March 1999


©Rhode Island Historical Society

Manuscripts Division

 


Historical note:


            The Anna Hazard Land Company was founded in 1911, to dispose the large land holdings left to the heirs of Anna Hazard (1820-1905), an unmarried sister of Rowland G. Hazard (1801-1888). Much of the land had been inherited by Anna Hazard from her sister Elizabeth Hazard (1799-1882). The lands had been managed by Anna's executor and nephew, Barclay Hazard, but unsound investments led other family members to incorporate as the Anna Hazard Land Company to dispose of the property. The office was established at the family headquarters in Peace Dale. Stock was issued in 1916, and reissued in 1923. John G. Hazard (b.1877) was the first president, and Rowland G. Hazard was treasurer-secretary. Isaac Peace Hazard (b.1883) was elected president in 1919, and served through 1946; Thomas P. Hazard served as secretary-treasurer for most of that time. John R. Carpenter (1874-1950) served as agent for the company's entire existence for a small salary, until its dissolution in 1946. The dissolution was complicated by questionable title to some of the land, and quitclaim deeds needed to be secured. The remaining assets were then placed in trust for the family at the Wakefield Trust Company.

            The land owned by the company was located in the towns of South Kingstown and Narragansett in southern Rhode Island. It included the Dale Carlia Farm and the Champlin Farm; a large lot on Point Judith Pond known as Foddering Place; Ram Island; and seven other lots. Although the purpose of the company was to dispose of the land rather than provide ongoing income, many of the holdings were leased for several years before they could be sold. Ram Island was leased by the Young Men's Christian Association and the State Police youth camps. Because much of the land was leased, the company was involved in regular maintenance. Eventually, one of the larger farms was divided into smaller lots for residential building.


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Scope and content:


            This collection includes complete stockholder minutes, extensive correspondence and financial records, and many deeds and plat maps for property held by the company.


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Provenance:


            These papers were donated by the Hazard family as part of the Hazard Family Papers in 1985. They had mostly been deposited in 1975, with a few items arriving in 1983.


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Processing note:


            This collection is part of the Hazard Family Papers, which were processed with support from the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities, the Beinecke Foundation, and the extended Hazard Family.


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Inventory:


Series 1: Minutes

Box 1, folder 1. 1911-1915, by-laws and annual meetings. Bound.

Box 1, folder 2. 1916-1944, by-laws and stockholder meeting minutes. Bound.

Box 1, folder 3. 1945-1946, minute book. Removed from binder.


 

Series 2: Correspondence.

Includes both incoming letters and copies of outgoing letters, as well as occasional enclosures. They are interfiled, as found in the original arrangement. Some correspondence from other record series has been kept foldered separately. The early outgoing letter copies are on fragile oversized tracing paper, and were apparently disbound from a letter book as they were generated; these have been removed from the general correspondence files, and are stored separately in the oversized box.

Box 1, folder 4. 1910-1912.

Box 1, folder 5. 1912-1913, land transactions.

Box 1, folder 6. 1913-1915

Box 1, folder 7. 1916-1917

Box 1, folder 8. 1918-1919

Box 1, folder 9. 1918-1919

Box 1, folder 10. 1920-1922

Box 1, folder 11. 1920-1922

Box 1, folder 12. 1922-1926, land transactions.

Box 1, folder 13. 1923

Box 1, folder 14. 1924-1925

Box 1, folder 15. 1926-1928

Box 1, folder 16. 1929-1934

Box 1, folder 17. 1935-1938

Box 1, folder 18. 1939-1941

Box 1, folder 19. 1940-1945, stock redemption.

Box 1, folder 20. 1942-1943

Box 1, folder 21. 1942, land transactions.

Box 1, folder 22. 1944-1946

Box 1, folder 23. 1944-1945, land transactions.

Box 1, folder 24. 1944-1945, land transactions: "The Rocks", Narragansett.

Box 1, folder 25. 1945-1946. Stock liquidation.

Box 1, folder 26. 1946. Dissolution of company.

Oversized box 3, folder 13. Outgoing correspondence, 1914-1929



Series 3: Financial


Series 3, subseries 1: Bank accounts.

Box 1, folder 27. 1919-1939

Box 1, folder 28. 1940-1946


Series 3, subseries 2: Financial reports. Miscellaneous reports and running accounts.

Box 1, folder 29. 1918-1925

Box 1, folder 30. 1935-1937

Box 1, folder 31. 1938-1940

Box 1, folder 32. 1942-1944


Series 3, subseries 3: Paid bills. Receipts for bills paid, mostly for property maintenance.

Box 1, folder 33. 1912-1917

Box 1, folder 34. 1919

Box 1, folder 35. 1920-1923

Box 1, folder 36. 1924-1926

Box 1, folder 37. 1926-1934

Box 1, folder 38. 1935-1941

Box 1, folder 39. 1942-1946


Series 3, subseries 4: Stock records.

Box 1, folder 40. Stock ledger, 1923-1946

Box 1, folder 41. Certificates, 1918-1919. Complete, #1-14.

Box 1, folder 42. Certificates, issued 1923-1946. #1-55, missing several.

Box 2, folder 1. Stock certificate receipt book, 1923-1946

Box 2, folder 2. Stockholder meeting notes and mailings, 1912-46

Box 2, folder 3. Stockholder lists, 1911-1946

Box 2, folder 4. Liquidation. Stockholder lists, notices, 1946

Box 2, folder 5. Liquidation. Stock deeds and proxies, 1946.

Box 2, folder 6. Dissolution. Petition and notice, 1946.


Series 3, subseries 5: Cash journal.

Box 2, folder 7. 7/1911 - 12/1945.


Series 3, subseries 6: Ledger.

Box 2, folder 8. 1911-1944.

Box 2, folder 9. 1916-1930. Ledger account cards for some properties.


Series 3, subseries 7: Tax records.

Oversized box 3, folder 14. Federal tax returns, 1937-1946

Box 2, folder 10. Rhode Island tax returns, 1922-1945

Box 2, folder 11. Capital stock tax returns, 1933-1945

Box 2, folder 12. Annual reports to R.I., 1941-1946

Box 3, folder 1. Employer's returns, 1937-1946. John R. Carpenter, sole employee.

Box 3, folder 2. Agriculture return, 1930

                          Unemployment returns, 1936, 1939

Box 3, folder 3. Balance sheets, 1922-1946

Box 3, folder 4. Rhode Island tax receipts, 1916-1939

Box 3, folder 5. Town tax bills and receipts, 1911-1946



Series 4: Land records.

Box 3, folder 6. Deeds, general. 1911-1946.

Box 3, folder 7. Deeds, Narragansett

Box 3, folder 8. Deeds, Narragansett

Box 3, folder 9. Deeds, Narragansett

Box 3, folder 10. Deeds, Narragansett

Box 3, folder 11. Deeds, South Kingstown

Box 3, folder 12. Deeds, South Kingstown

Box 3, folder 13. Deeds, South Kingstown

Box 3, folder 14. Deeds, South Kingstown

Box 3, folder 15. Land evidence abstracts by Earl G.W. Howard, 1945, of deeds 1845-1922.

Oversized box 3, folder 15. Maps



Series 5: Miscellaneous.

Box 3, folder 16. Copies of wills:

                                    Lydia Morgan, 1908

                                    Frederick Rowland Hazard, 1927

                                    Grace Tierney, 1927

                                    Charles M. Hazard, 1941

                                    Edith Hazard Forbes, 1942

Box 3, folder 17. Trustee's statement to heirs of Anna Hazard, 3/1/1914. By Rowland G. Hazard and F.P. Ufford. Describes circumstances of company's founding.

Box 3, folder 18. Point Judith Country Club minutes, 9/16/1939. The Anna Hazard Land Company was a lessor.

Box 3, folder 19. Dissolution agreement, 1946


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Subjects:


Carpenter, John R. (1874-1950)

Hazard, Anna (1820-1905)

Hazard, Elizabeth (1799-1882)

Hazard, Isaac P. "Peace" (1883- )

Hazard, Thomas P. (1892-1968)

Narragansett, R.I. - Buildings, structures, etc.

South Kingstown, R.I. - Buildings, structures, etc.


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