Paul Hammond

  General Notes:

Paul,6[A] second son of William, and probably b. at Wales, Hampden Co., Mass., m. at Pittstown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., and moved to Northampton (Northville), Fulton Co., about 1795, where many of his children were born. About 1815-20 he moved to Penfield, Monroe Co., afterwards Webster, where he was living at the time of his death. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and afterwards a farmer. He m. in 1780, Mary (called Polly) Fuller, who was b. at Easton, Mass., Dec. 14, 1763, and d. at Concord, Pa., Jul. 9, 1842. Issue: 1. Abner, b. Jul. 24, 1782. d. Dec. 22, 1813. 2. Benoni G., b. Feb. 16, 1784. d. Dec. 24, 1866. 3. Elizabeth, b. May 4, 1786. 4. William, b. Jul. 27, 1788. d. Mch. 20, 1860. 5. Charles, b. Sep. 19, 1790. d. Feb. 6, 1794. 6. Ruth, b. Feb. 7, 1792. d. in 1860. 7. Bartimeus, b. Mch. 16, 1794. d. Oct. 23, 1823. 8. Paul, Jr., b. Jan. 26, 1797. d. Feb. 8, 1880. 9. Samuel, b. Feb. 1, 1799. d. Mch. 4, 1884. 10. Naomi, b. Mch. 11, 1801. d. Jan. --, 1892. 11. Sarah, b. Sep. 11, 1803. d. Jun. 25, 1890. 12. Mahala, b. Mch. --, 1805. d. Oct. 25, 1807. 13. Amanda M., b. Oct. 30, 1806. d. Apr. 23, 1891. 14. Mary, b. Oct. 31, 1810.

Of these children, Charles7 and Mahala7 d. young; Bartimeus,7 who was b. blind, never married; and Mary7 is supposed to have gone west with the Mormons at the time of their settlement in Ohio, about 1830-31.
[A] There is a tradition and a Bible record that Paul Hammond was born in England, but these may have arisen from the fact that he was probably born in Wales, Mass.

Long before the writer got the record of this branch he had learned from several sources that they were directly related to the Dutchess County branch of Hammonds of New York, whose ancestor came to this country in 1634, they being directly descended from Samuel Hammond5, [Thomas,4 Samuel,3 Benjamin,2 William1], whose wife was Hannah Sheperd.

Jacob Hammond, late of Farmington, N. Y., and a descendant of this Dutchess County family, in his youth knew both Paul and his brother William. Referring to a visit of Paul to his (Jacob's) father in Saratoga Co., after Paul moved to western New York, he says: "I well recollect, on the occasion of Paul's eastern visit at my father's house, of his remarking to father that they were as nearly related as they could be and not be brothers, as their fathers were brothers and their mothers were sisters. This I think effectually disposes of the tradition of English hirth."

Andrew B. Hammond of Dutchess Co. and others give corroborative testimony. If the Paul Hammond and Dutchess Co. branches are closely related (and of this there is no reasonable doubt) it is not probable that Paul Hammond was born in England. [A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond by Roland Hammond, 1894]

Paul married Mary Fuller in 1780 in Pittstown, Rensselaer, NY ⁶¹⁷.^,618 (Mary Fuller was born on 14 Dec 1763 in Easton, Bristol, MA ^617,618 and died on 9 Jul 1842 in Concord, Erie, PA ^617,618.)