Brief Life History of James
When James Hammond was born in 1784, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States, his father, William Hammond, was 54 and his mother, Lucretia Waite, was 50. He married Phebe Palmer on 17 June 1804, in Stonington, New London, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He died on 5 July 1866, at the age of 82, and was buried in Common Ground Cemetery, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, United States.
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- James Hammond, "Rhode Island, Births and Christenings, 1600-1914"
- James Hammond, "Rhode Island Town Deaths Index, 1639-1932"
- James Hammond in entry for Ann Rhodes Edwards, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915"
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1786 · Shays' Rebellion
Caused by war veteran Daniel Shays, Shays' Rebellion was to protest economic and civil rights injustices that he and other farmers were seeing after the Revolutionary War. Because of the Rebellion it opened the eyes of the governing officials that the Articles of Confederation needed a reform. The Rebellion served as a guardrail when helping reform the United States Constitution.
1788 · Connecticut Becomes the 5th State
Connecticut became a state on January 9, 1788. In 1650, before it was a state, the boundary of Connecticut ran north from the westside of Greenwich Bay and the coast of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1600s, Westmoreland County was in Connecticut when the boundaries were changed Westmoreland County went to Pennsylvania.
1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English, Old French personal name Ha(i)mon, the oblique case form of the ancient Germanic Ha(i)mo, a short form of various compound names beginning with haim ‘home’. It frequently developed excrescent -d, giving Hamond, Haimund, and Hawmond. Alternatively, the name could derive from the Middle English personal name Hamund (Old Norse Hámundr, composed of the elements hár ‘high’ + mund ‘protection’), which may have been used in Normandy and in 12th-century eastern England, but the former explanation is more likely. The surname was sometimes confused with Almond and Ammon .
English: in the Bradford area of Yorkshire, the name is a shortened form of Ormondroyd, formerly Hamondesrode, from a lost place in Birstall (Yorkshire), named with the Middle English (Old French) personal name Hamon (1 above) + Middle English roid, a southern Yorkshire pronunciation of Old English rod ‘clearing’.
Irish: generally an importation from England, but occasionally an adopted name for Mac Ámoinn, see McCammon .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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