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Author: Kenneth Lee Aubrey
George Hammond, son of William Hammond and Winifred Milner, was born February 25, 1750, in Richmond County, Virginia. He married his first wife Sarah Dickerson at Chesterfield County, Appomattox River, Virginia in 1773. George and Sarah Dickerson Hammond had three children before Sarah died in October 1871. He then married Unity Smith in Anson County, North Carolina on February 24, 1785, and ten children were born to them between 1786 and 1809. Unity died December 1831.
When the Revolutionary War was declared in 1776, George Hammond was living in Anson County, North Carolina. He stated in his pension application that he volunteered about 1777 and served at times under Captain Patrick Boggan, Captain John De Jarnett and Colonel Thomas Wade. The records show that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army and was a lieutenant wounded at the Battle of Eutaw Springs, South Carolina September 6, 1781. He also served under General Greene and Colonel Samuel Hammond; his uncle.
In 1834, he filed a pension application with the United States Government for his Revolutionary War service. George's pension is in the National Archives in Washington D.C. under Hammond, George, He died in Anson County, North Carolina in 1840
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