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ABIJAH HAMMOND
Lieutenant 2d Artillery, Massachusetts.
Born at Cambridge, Mass., 22d of February, 1757. Died 30th of December, 1832.
ABIJAH HAMMOND
In 1776, at the age of nineteen, he joined the Continental Army as a member of Captain Frothingham's Company of Artillery, which
had been attached to Colonel John Crane's Regiment—formerly Knox's—and in the following year, 1777, he was commissioned as
a Lieutenant and served as such with his regiment. He was attached to the Adjutant-General's Department under Colonel Scammel,
toward the close of the war.
He was present at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Monmouth and Yorktown, and is said to have been in Fort Schuyler
during the siege. At Monmouth he was wounded, once by a sabre cut and again by a musket ball, and at Valley Forge endured the
hardships of the Winter of 1777-78.
When the army, after the war, was reorganized, Washington tendered him the command of an artillery regiment, which he declined,
preferring to pass the remainder of his life at his beautiful and attractive residence on Throgg's Neck, where he died in his seventyfifth
year, universally beloved and esteemed by all who knew him, having served his country well as a brave and intelligent officer.
He married Catharine Ogden, and died, leaving three sons and two daughters. This Society elected him their Treasurer in 1793.
His name appears on the Half-Pay Roll.
CHARLES HENRY HAMMOND, his eldest son, was admitted in 1843, and died in 1849, unmarried.
OGDEN HAMMOND, his second son, was in 1850 admitted by the South Carolina State Society. He died leaving issue a
daughter, Mrs. Trenholm Inwood of Charleston, S. C.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON HAMMOND, his youngest son, succeeded him in the direct male line, and was admitted by the New
York State Society in 1875. He presented the Society, in 1876, with an oil painting of his father in full uniform.
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New York, December 31, 1832.
The President, with deep regret, announces to the members of the Society (of Cincinnati), the death of Abijah Hammond, Esq.,
another of their Revolutionary companions. He died yesterday, at his residence, at Throg's Neck, Westchester county, in the 75th
year of his age.
Mr. Hammond joined the Continental Army in the year 1776, as a member of Capt. Frothingham's company of artillery, attached
to Col. Crane's regiment, and was, in the next year, commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 3d regiment of artillery, of the Continental
Army. In the early part of the campaign of 1777, Mr. Hammond went with his company to the North, and was in Fort Stanwix,
(afterwards Fort Schuyler,) during the time it was besieged by Gen'l St. Ledger. He subsequently went with his regiment to Virginia.
He was afterwards, and in the same year, attached to the Adjutant General's Department, under Col. Scammel, and continued in
that department until the close of the Revolutionary War. Mr. Hammond was a brave and intelligent officer, and his services in the
Adjt. Genl's Department, were highly esteemed by the army.
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NOTE: from the book "History of Broome County" by Smith "the second tract in Sidney, NY, was patented to Abijah Hammond April
27, 1787, containing 10,880 acres and lies in Vestal".)
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