Family/Spouse: Richard MOSS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Thomas COCKEY. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Colonial Families in the Southern States states that "MAJOR GENERAL JOHN HAMMOND, son of John of Anne Arundel Co., Md., b. 1643, on the Isle of Wight; d. 1707, in Maryland; was the first of the name to remain in Maryland. He was one of the most distinguished of all the early Colonial officials, filling the important post of Judge of the Vice Admiralty, in addition to his high military office of Major General of the Western Shore, member of the House of Burgesses, Justice of the Provincial Court and member of his Majesty's Council, 1698-1707. He was bruied on Nov.29, 1707, in St. Anne's Church Yard, Annapolis, Md., where his tomb is yet to be seen, also the Hammond Bible. He was a member of St. Anne's Episcopal Church, and a Vestryman. In 1695 he gave deed for Church site upon Severn Heights; and the Hammond Bible was purchased by the Vestry, in 1707, from the legacy of 10 pounds, left to the Church, for that purpose. He m. Mary Howard, dau. of Matthew Howard."

I believe that Southern States based John's father as John from a christening record dated Jan 26, 1643/44 in St. Mary's, Battersea, Surrey, England. If this is true, his birthdate would make him about 7 weeks of age and this seems a bit late. I also don't believe that our John was the son of John because the John that was baptised in 1644 apparently died. I say this because a John Hammond named another son John in 1647 in the same church at his christening. As a child, our John was raised a Quaker. According to "The Hammond Families of Anne Arundel, Baltimore and Frederick Counties, Maryland," c.1880, he was born on the Isle of Wight, England and was a son of Thomas Hammond. He was in his 20's when he came to America, still a Quaker at that time. In 1682, he was convicted for refusing to defend the Province because of his faith.

It is surprising then that he totally revoked his faith, took up arms in the militia to defend his neighborhood against Indians and was convicted of bearing arms by the Quaker community in 1683. He became a well known member of the Church of England and went on to become Major General of the Militia after the age of 40. He gave money near his death which procured a large bible for his church, St. Anne's Parish Church in Annapolis, Maryland which still exists today. In 1669, he is on a freeholder's list for Anne Arundel Co. It stated that he was to be paid tobacco for his public service. He married well, into one of America's most distinguished families, the Howards. They were his neighbors in the Middle Neck Hundred which was nine miles west of where he helped lay out Annapolis, Maryland in 1684.

In that year, he was one of the persons commissioned to lay out the town of Annapolis, MD. In 1685, John was commissioned as a justice for Anne Arundel County. He was a member of the Quorum in 1689. In 1691, when he returned to England on behalf of his service to Maryland, he held the rank of Captain. There he presented John Povey, Esq., in the Plantation Office, Whitehall, London, England a list of "good honest substantial Protestants" in Maryland. He returned before the end of year to his home in Maryland where he signed a proclamation thanking Providence for placing a Protestant King and Queen on the throne. In 1695 he donated land to his friends in Westminster Parish upon Severn Heights for the building of a church.

He held the following impressive appointments in his lifetime

1692: Commissioner of the Peace, Gentleman of the Quorum and delegate to the Lower House of the General Assembly from Anne Arundel Co., MD.

1693: Member of the House of Burgess

1694: Captain of a Troop of Horse where he was promoted to Major

1694: Justice of the Provincial Court, the highest court authority of the day

1698: Exulted Seat in the Council until his death

1704: Listed as Colonel

1704: Member of commission to lay out towns and ports in Providence, MD

July 6, 1707: Governor Seymour commissioned him as Major General of the Western Shore that oversaw six companies

An obituary on him that can be found in the archives of St. Ann's Parish states "November 29, 1709 Then was Buried by the Reverend Mr. James Wolton Rector of St. Ann's Parish The Honorable John Hammond Esq., Major Genll of the Western Shore of This Her Majesty's Province of Maryland, and one of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Councell, and Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in the said Province."

It's his gravestone that allows us to estimate his birth year which states that he's 64 years of age when he died on Nov. 24, 1707. A transcription of his will reads: I leave my home plantation to my wife, Mary, Mt. Airy Neck. My eldest son, Thomas, my plantation called 'Mt. Airy Neck' at the decease of my wife, "Heath" in Patapscoe where he now lives and 100 acres called "WheatleyNeck" and 75 lbs. to be invested in land. To son, John, the plantation on the N. side of Severn River where he lives, and that part of 'Swan Neck'; Also 100 acres "Horners" bought from Thomas Reynolds, 50 acres called "The Adventurer", and 50 acres called "Forked Neck"; to son William, the other part of "Swan Neck", 100 acres, "Strawberry Plain", 400 Acres "The Addition" and 50 acres "Brushy Neck"; To Son Charles, 100 acres "Flushing", 50 acres "Deer Creek Point", 284 acres, "Rich Neck" at Patuxent R. and 362 Acres "Hammond's Forest." To my first three sons, my houses and lots in Annapolis. To St. Ann's Church, Annapolis, 10lbs. My four sons to be my executors.

John married Mary HOWARD in 1666 in Annapolis, Anne Arundel, MD. Mary (daughter of Matthew HOWARD) was born after 1648 in , Lower Norfolk, VA; died on 4 Apr 1721 in , Anne Arundel, MD. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She and her brother Philip were not named in the will of one of her father's best friends, Richard Hall, who gave livestock to every living child of Matthew Howard in his will in 1648. Therefore, it is likely that she and Philip had not yet been born.

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He is said to be Thomas Hammond in most published books and is listed as John or Thomas Hammond in Mormon Ancestral File records. "Colonial Families in the Southern States" said that "during the reign of Charles I., and II., the Hammonds, were high in office in England, Dr. John Hammond, was Court Physician to King James I., and his son, was Chaplain to Charles I., and another son came to Virginia, and was a member of the House of Burgess, from Isle of Wight Co., 1635-1652; he then went to Maryland, where he remained a few years, before returning to England, where he wrote "Leak and Rachel," describing the Colonies of Maryland and Virginia. Yet another son of Dr. John Hammond, was a Lieut. Gen. in Cromwells Army, and his grandson, a son of Thomas Hammond, was Col. Robert Hammond, Governor of the Isle of Wight, England, and it was to this Col. Robert Hammond, that King Charles I., fled for protection when driven from his throne, Col. Robert being loyal to his King, gave him shelter beneath his roof, which act of loyalty cost him his office."

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes him this way. "Hammond: Thomas (1600-1658) was a officer in the Model Army and a regicide. Hammond the 3rd son of five children of Dr. John Hammond (1555-1617), Physician to the royal household under James I. 1642 was Commissioned as an artillery officer at the start of English Civil War and the Continental Wars that proceeded the Civil War. Motives for joining the Parliamentary side against King Charles was not recorded. In 1644 his radicalism was evident. He testified against his own commander-in-chief, Edward Montagu in favor of Oliver Cromwell. He joined Cromwell in Scotland during the invasion there and became ill. He didn't fully recover and resigned his commission in 1652. He Was Commissioner at the High Court of Justice for the trial of King Charles I, but didn't sign the Death Warrant. His lands were confiscated by Royalists."

Then there is a 3rd possibility. There is a Thomas Hammond married to Elizabeth Cason who was born in 1603 and died on Apr 5, 1666 in Anne Arundel Co., Maryland who had his will probated in Sussex Co., England. "UK, Extracted Probate Records, 1269-1975 about Hammond, Hamon, Thomas Name: Hammond, Hamon, Thomas Dates: 1666 Place: Selbidge, Sussex, England Book: Register 3. Collection: Sussex: Chichester - Calendar of Wills in the Consistory Court of the Bishop of Chichester, 1482-1800Volume: Wills Now Preserved in the Probate Registry at Chichester. Chapter: 1482-1800.Text: Hammond, Hamon, Thomas, Selbidge 23 317b 1666". This last Thomas could still be the son of Dr. John Hammond, but the Oxford Dictionary would have had to have gotten the dates wrong on when he lived and died. His birthdate of 1600 does not make him the 3rd child of Dr. Hammond like the Oxford Dictionary states, but the 1603 date does. In either case, the Oxford Dictionary of Biography does seem to have something amiss here about Thomas. Thomas is likely the Thomas in the following immigration record. Thomas Hammond Arrival Year: 1662Arrival Place: Marylan, Source Publication Code: 1862Primary Immigrant: Hammond, Thomas, Source Bibliography: ENGLISH and WELSH EMIGRANT INDEX. In The English Genealogist, vol. 4:2 (1981), pp. 368-372.Page: 369

Thomas married Elizabeth CASON, * on 12 Nov 1623. Elizabeth died in 1671. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Matthew is the likely son of Sir Thomas Howard-Arundel and Ann Philipson. This is supported by the naming of a son Philip; the disappearance in English records of their son Matthew after 1620; the fact that he would be a relative of the treasurer of the "London Virginia Company, Sir Edwin Sandys, through his mother's side; his appearance in Elizabeth City Co., VA about 1624 with Arundel, Willoughby, Wriothesley, Calvert, Montague, and Sandy relatives and by the fact that he moved to Anne Arundel Co., Maryland which was named after his sister. His son John used a stamp in wax of his family's coat of arms which was the Ducal House of Norfolk. Almost a hundred years later, a descendant, Cornelius Howard, buried on the family estate in Baltimore, had almost the exact same coat-of-arms added to his headstone. This coat-of-arms was nearly identical to the one used by the Duke of Norfolk living in the 1960's. It is also the lineage presented in several published books on this line.

It should be noted that next to the Royal Family of England, the House of Howard ranks next. It's head, the Duke of Norfolk, is the hereditary Earl Marshall of England. Unlike most other noble houses of England, it states that it is of pure Saxon descent.

It is believed he moved to Virginia because he was one of the middle sons of Thomas. His eldest half brother, son of Thomas's first wife, Maria Wriothesley, would have received the title and lands of his father. It was not uncommon for younger sons to travel to the new world to make their fortune. It should be noted that the Wriothesleys were also neighbors and friends of the Howards in Maryland.

His first land purchase is not in actual records, but these same land records list him as the neighbor of Robert Taylor in Feb. of 1637. In 1638, He was granted 150 acres by Charles I in Lower Norfolk Co., VA (formerly Elizabeth City Co., VA) for bringing over his wife and two servants. He settled in Lower Norfolk Co., VA for a period of 20 years where it is assumed that all of his children were born. Since he made no claim for land for any children, this is proof that all of his children were born in Virginia.

He and all but one of his sons were followers of the Established Church of England. He moved to Anne Arundel Co., Maryland between June of 1649 and July of 1650 with his friend and neighbor, Edward Lloyd. He likely moved his family to Maryland because his brother-in-law was the third Lord Baltimore of Maryland at the time. He died before 1659 when his son Philip was listed as an orphan when he gained some of his father's land through a guardian.

We know for certain that 4 of his sons are brothers from a warrant for land in 1662 in Maryland for 900 acres given to his sons Cornelius, John, Matthew and Samuel.

John S. Wurts, "Magna Charta" c1950 is sourced for Matthew's royal ancestry as well as his son Johns and needs to be located for further proof as to this family line.

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He was a court physician to King James I whose reign ended in 1625. One of his sons was a chaplain for Charles I.

John married Mary HARRISON. Mary was born in 1574; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count Thomas Arundel-Howard had 3 children by his first wife and six by his second. He spent much of his early childhood on the continent of Europe, mostly in Germany. He volunteered to join the Imperial Hungarian Army against the Turks at a young age as was recommended by Queen Elizabeth herself. For his gallantry in those wars he earned the name "The Valiant". At the battle of GRAN in Hungary 1595 he captured a standard from the Turks with his own hands for which the Emperor Rudolph II made a decree dated the 14th of December 1595, naming him COUNT of the HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE. RODOLPH CONFERED THE "HONOR UPON YOU THOMAS AND ALL AND EVERY ONE OF YOUR CHILDREN, HEIRS, AND LEGITIMATE DESCENDANTS OF BOTH SEXES ALREADY BORN OR THAT EVER HEREAFTER SHALL BE". In 1605, he received the title of First Baron Arundel of Wardour.

Thomas married Ann PHILIPSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]