Captain Samuel Hammond performed Patriotic Service in North Carolina in the American Revolution.
Samuel Hammond is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A050662.
Samuel was born in March 1722 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia to Job Hammond and Amadine Baylis. Some records have his birth in Fairfax County, Virginia. As a young man he worked as a school teacher in North Carolina.
Birth
19 March 1721/1722
Place: North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia[1]
Samuel served as a Captain during the Revolutionary War on the Virginia Continental Line.
Death
Capt. Hammond died in Oct 1806 in Kershaw, Lancaster District, South Carolina.[2]
Burial
Burial:
Place: Hammond Cemetery, Heath Springs, Lancaster, South Carolina
Inscription:
In / Memory of / Samuel Hammond / Son of / Job and Amadine Hammond / Born in Richmond Co., Va. / the 19th of March, 1722 / and died in October, 1806[3]
In the name of God Amen. I Samuel Hammond of the District of Kershaw and State of South Carolina Being of Sound Mind and Memory Cauling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die I do make Constitute and ordain this my Last will and testament in the manner and form as followeth - Imprimis first I leave and Bequeath to my wife Marey Hammond My Negro Woman by the Name of Lettis and his [sic] three children by the name of Gilley Jack and Ned also my Living Stock of Every kind and household furnature to hir during hir Natural Life or widowhood.
Secondly I give and bequeath to my Sun Job Hammond one Negro boy By the Name of Ned - Thirdly I give and bequeath to my Sun Samuel Hammond one Negro Boy by the Name of Jack - fourthly I give and Bequeath to my Sun Raleigh Hammond one Negro Boy by the Name of Billey Douring his Naturl life after his Decease I give said Boy Billey to my Grandaughter Milley G Bruer - fifthly I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Charlotty Collins one Negro woman By the Name of Letty with hir futer in Crease. My will and Disier is that all my Goods and Chattels Shall be Equally Divided Between my four Children Job Samuel and Raleigh Hammond and Charlotty Collins - Lastly I constitute and apoint My Sun in Law Lewis Collins my Sun Raleigh Hammond Executors to this my Last Will and testament Disannuling and Revoking all other Testaments Wills Codicls of Wills by me Made Ratefying this to be my Last Will and Testament - Witness my hand and Seal this Ninth Day of January one thousand Eight hundred and five and of the independ of unite States of america the thirteyeth year
Source: S170 George Harrison Sanford King, Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663 - 1814 and Lunenburg Parish 1783 - 1800 Richmond County Virginia, The (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1966/1986); page 80. Repository: #R5
George Harrison Sanford King, compiler, Marriages of Richmond County, Virginia 1668-1853 (Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1964 1986); page 86. Repository: #R5
John H. McIntosh, History of Elbert County Georgia (Atlanta, Georgia: Cherokee Publishing Company, 1968); page 439-440.
Gilreath, Amelia Cleland, The Grandparents David Cleland John Adolph Irwin Hattie Jenkins Minnie Holler (Nokesville, Virginia: Amelia Cleland Gilreath, 2000); page 224
Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution, compiler, Mississippi Daughters and Their Ancestors (Starkville, Mississippi: Starkville Publishing Co., 1965); Volume II. Repository: #R67
Source: S3004 Samuel Hammond will (9 January 1805 (Recorded 19 Feb 1807)), Will of Samuel Hammond of Kershaw District, South Carolina Will Book D, page 43; Estate packet: Apt. 30, Pkg 1067. Repository: #R179
LEWIS, C. TURNER, 4 Ivy Pond Place, The Woodlands, Texas 77381 (281) 363-3880 c.t.lewis at worldnet.att.net
Bieman Otis Prince, The Hammond Family of Lancaster County, 1965
Repository: R67 Bryan Memorial Library, 338 Commerce Street, West Point, Mississippi 39773; (662) 494-4872.
Repository: R179 South Carolina Department of Archives and History, 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, South Carolina 29223, (803) 896-6100.
Repository: R5 Bull Run Regional Library, Prince William County Library System, 8051 Ashton Avenue, Manassas, Virginia; (703) 792-4500.
Repository: R70 Camden County Archives, 1314 Broad Street, Camden, South Carolina 2 Provo, Utah, ancestry.com/The Generations Network, www.ancestry.com
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