Colonel Samuel Hammond
Samuel Hammond was born on the 21st of September, 1757, in Richmond County, Farnham's Parish, Virginia. He began his career of public service at an early age. In an expedition ordered out by Governor Dunmore against the Western Indians, he was a volunteer, and was in the desparate battle at the mouth of the Great Kenhawa River, fought by General Andrew Lewis, October 10, 1774.Hammond was first made captain of a company of volunteers and was engaged in a battle at Great Bridge, near Norfolk, under Colonel Woodford in December of 1775. He also served in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, with the Virginian troops, under Colonel Mathews, General Maxwell, and others.
In 1778, he volunteered as an Aide to General Hand and with him went to Pittsburg. In January of 1779, he removed with his father's family to the Edgefield District in South Carolina, and at once joined the army under Maj. General Benjamin Lincoln, under orders of General McIntosh, who had superceded General Hand in Pennsylvania. The Virginia troops were about to return hom as their eighteen months' term had expired; but Hammond remained with Maj. General Lincoln, as a captain, that having been his rank in Virginia as General Hand's Aide.
On the second of February, he sas ordered by General Andrew Williamson to raise a company of mounted volunteers to be attached to LeRoy Hammond's regiment. He did so, and on the 3rd of March 1779, he was commissioned by Governor Rutledge captain of company, and continued in that service until the surrender of Lincoln in May 1780 was known in the upper country.
Before the fall of Charleston, during Prevost's invasion, he had fought at the battle of Stono, under Col. Henderson and Col. Malmedy. At the siege of Savannah, these officers with their men made a gallant attack upon the left of the British lines. After the siege of Savannah, illiamson with a great many other Whigs, accepted British protection as paroled prisoners; but Samuel Hammond did not.
Source: History of Edgefield County by John A. Chapman, 1897.
" Miss Catherine Hammond was born in Northumberland County, Virginia on December 30, 1763, and died in Milledgeville, Georgia May 11, 1842, aged 76 years. She was the daughter of Charles Hammond who, with his family moved to South Carolina in 1776 and settled later in Georgia near Augusta, where he died. During the Revolution her family were all ardently devoted to the cause of liberty. She had five brothers in the Army, and one of them, Colonel Samuel Hammond, who still survives, was formerly a member of Congress, and by appointment of President Jefferson was the first Governor of Missouri. He distinguished himself in several important engagements during the Revolutionary War. From about the time of her father's death in 1784, Miss Catherine became a ommunicant of the Episcopal Church in Augusta, and she has general resided in and near that city from tha time until last November when she came to Milledgeville to visit an aged sister."