Michael Hammond

Ancestors

Son of Wesley Hammond and Beverly (Buntzler) Hammond

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Biography

Descendant of PGM migrant Benjamin Hammond.

Descendant of PGM migrant William Knowlton.

First child of the family to have not been born or lived in California, Michael Hammond was born in Wenatchee, in the central part of Washington State, sandwiched between the Cascade Mountains and the Columbia River Gorge.

Michael is the paternal 8th great grandchild of Benjamin Hammond b. 1621, d.1703, who came over to New England during the Puritan Great Migration.

He is also the maternal 4th great grandchild of Johann Hinrich Schmelen, a well-known German missionary who served in Southwestern Africa, and his wife Zara Hendriks, an African woman of Khoi descent, who translated the New Testament into the Nama language.

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Michael Hammond is the family genealogist and presently lives with his mother in Wenatchee, Washington, USA.

See my WikiTree Cousins DNA Match page. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:DNA_Matches

DNA Circles:

• Category: Napier, John Creed, 1823 - 1879, AncestryDNA Circle

• Category: McGeorge, Samuel P., 1794-1843, Ancestry DNA Circle

(I believe one of the male children of John Hawkins Napier to be my mother's birthfather, making John Creed Napier my 3rd great grandfather.)

DNA Tests Taken:

• Family Tree DNA - auDNA, yDNA, mtDNA; also, BigY700
• Ancestry DNA

FTDNA Raw DNA Uploaded To:

• GEDMATCH, Promethease (auDNA); GenBank (mtDNA), MitoYDNA, MyHeritage, and University of Leicester Y-Chromosome Tree Project (YDNA)

Approximate DNA Racial Admixture:

• 94% European, 3% African, 3% Middle Eastern
• And is determined by averaging results from Family Tree DNA, Ancestry, and Dodecad V3 admixture tool on GEDMATCH.

Paternal Notable Relations

Michael Hammond, through his father, is related to these Mayflower Passengers:

• Richard Warren is the 10th great grandfather of Michael Hammond.
• Edward Winslow Jr. is the 10th great grand uncle of Michael Hammond.

And these American Presidents:

• Millard Fillmore is his 6th cousin, five times removed.
• Ulysses S Grant is his 6th cousin, five times removed.
• Franklin D Roosevelt is his 7th cousin, three times removed.
• Calvin Coolidge is his 7th cousin, three times removed.
• George Herbert-Walker Bush is his 9th cousin, once removed.
• Warren G. Harding is his 9th cousin, twice removed.
• Gerald Ford is his 10th cousin.
• Herbert Hoover is his 10th cousin, twice removed.
• Chester A. Arthur is his 10th cousin, three times removed.
• James A. Garfield is his 10th cousin, four times removed.
• Richard Nixon is his 11th cousin, twice removed.

And these Royalty / Noblemen:

• The 24th great grandson of Edward Plantagenet (Edward I of England).
• The 31st great grandson of Rodrigo Diaz (Vivar) de Vivar “El Cid”.
• The 33rd great grandson of Harald Bluetooth Harald Blåtand "Bluetooth" Gormsen VIII) (uncertain)
• The 35th great grandson of Charlemagne Carolingian.

He is 5th Cousin, 5 times removed, of frontier notable, "Grizzly Adams".

Maternal Notable Relations: Michael Hammond, through his mother, is related to these American Presidents:

• Thomas Jefferson is his 3rd cousin, seven times removed.
• John Tyler is his 5th cousin, five times removed.
• Lyndon B. Johnson is his 8th cousin, once removed.
• William Howard Taft is his 10th cousin, four times removed.

And these Royalty / Noblemen:

• The 22nd great grandson of Robert the Bruce of Scotland Robert "Earl of Carrick and Lord of Annandale" Bruce King Robert Ist of Scots). (uncertain)
• The 29th great grandson of Brian Bóruma MacCennetig (High King of Ireland).

He is also related, through his mother, to these Great African Americans:

• Muhammad Ali is his 7th cousin, once removed.
• Martin Luther King Jr. is his 12th cousin.

Michael Is also Paternal 9th Cousins with Dr. Lawrence Hammond, and 7th cousins twice removed with his Y-match James Harold Hammond II.

Others: Michael Hammond is the Maternal 7th cousin, once removed of Greg Napier

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Michael Hammond at registration.

Confirmed by DNA:

• Autosomal mother-son relationship is confirmed with a 3384cM Family Tree Family Finder test match between Beverly Buntzler and Michael Hammond.