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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.
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.
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.
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.
Inventory:
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
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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