When Hendrick Hamm was born on 8 December 1781, in Clermont, Columbia, New York, United States, his father, Johannes C. Hamm, was 33 and his mother, Catharine Kuhn, was 28. He married Elizabeth Betsey Kuntz about 1805, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters.
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The Revolutionary War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris which gave the new nation boundries on which they could expand and trade with other countries without any problems.
Historical Boundaries 1786: Columbia, New York, United States
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
English (London): topographic name for someone who lived at a place called from Middle English ham(me), hom(me) (Old English hamm), which meant ‘land in a river bend’, ‘land hemmed in by marshland’, ‘wet land hemmed in by higher ground’, ‘river meadow’, or ‘cultivated plot on the edge of woodland or moor’. The topographic term is found mainly in the South Midlands and southern England. There are many farmsteads with this name in Devon and Sussex, five more substantial settlements called Ham or Hamp in Somerset, as well as East and West Ham in Essex, and places called Ham in Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Surrey, and Wiltshire. This form of the surname is also comparatively frequent in Ireland.
German: topographic name for someone who lived on land in a river bend, Old High German ham (see 1 above).
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of numerous places called Hamm, mainly the city in Westphalia.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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