Brief Life History of William
When Capt. William Hammond was born about 1800, in Fairhaven, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Asa Hammond, was 34 and his mother, Sarah Jenne, was 26. He married Lucy Howland Tallman on 14 September 1822, in New Bedford, Bristol, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He lived in Wayne Township, DuPage, Illinois, United States for about 10 years and Elgin, Kane, Illinois, United States in 1870. He died on 21 November 1880, in Wauconda, Lake, Illinois, United States, at the age of 81.
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- William Hammond, "United States Census, 1880"
- William Hammond, "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940"
- Wm. Hammand, "Illinois, Cook County Deaths, 1871-1998"
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1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1818
Illinois is the 21st state.
1821 · Financial Relief for Public Land
A United States law to provide financial relief for the purchasers of Public Lands. It permitted the earlier buyers, that couldn't pay completely for the land, to return the land back to the government. This granted them a credit towards the debt they had on land. Congress, also, extended credit to buyer for eight more years. Still while being in economic panic and the shortage of currency made by citizens, the government hoped that with the time extension, the economy would improve.
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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