Brief Life History of Stephen Sylvester
When Stephen Sylvester Hammond was born on 28 June 1807, in Florence, Oneida, New York, United States, his father, Daniel Hammond, was 28 and his mother, Jerusha Stiles, was 19. He married Eliza Button on 24 April 1828, in Middletown Springs, Rutland, Vermont, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Orwell, Ashtabula, Ohio, United States in 1850 and Michigan, United States in 1870. He died on 12 December 1893, in Jackson, Jackson, Michigan, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rowley Cemetery, Webberville, Leroy Township, Ingham, Michigan, United States.
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- Sylvester Hammond, "United States Census, 1840"
- Sylvester Hammond, "Michigan Marriages, 1868-1925"
- Unknown, "Alabama Deaths, 1908-1974"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
Wayne Township was established 4 June 1812.
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
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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