Richard [Nicholls] Harison / Harrison - Onondaga and Oswego ...

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http://www.oakwood.edu/ougoldmine/adoc/sepulveda/
In many communities the poor were auctioned off and treated with barbarity and neglect by their keepers. In many cases the cruelty
and torture of their keepers ended in death. The words of Abijah Hammond in October of 1820 describes what generally happened
to the poor in the northeastern in the first half of the 19th Century.
"Most of the poor are sold, as the term is, that is, to those who agree to support them on the lowest terms, to purchasers nearly as
poor as themselves who treat them in many instances more like brutes than like human beings, and who instead of applying, the
amount they received from the poor master, for the comfort of the pauper, spend it to support their own families, or which is too
often the case, in purchasing ardent spirits; under the maddening influence of which, they treat these wretched pensioners, and not
infrequently their own wives and children, with violence and outrage."
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygreen2/beers_original_land_titles.htm
A tract of land north of Batavia was granted to Abijah Hammond July 9th 1790.
6 maps of Abijah Hammond’s Tract, Windham Township, by James Cockburn, ca.1790-1804.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_(village),_New_York
Hammond is a village in St. Lawrence County, NY. The original landowner of the town was Abijah Hammond. The village was
formerly known as "Hammond Corners."
http://history.rays-place.com/ny/hammond-ny.htm
Hammond derives its name from Abijah Hammond, of New York, who owned the township previous to 1814 He was a New York
merchant and a brother-in-law of David A. Ogden, but he never visited his northern property. On the 12th of September, 1814 David
Parish purchased of Hammond 28,871 acres. On some of this tract beginnings of settlement had been made, but no titles actually
passed to settlers until in July, 1818, when William Wiley took the first contract.
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