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Samuel Hammond b. 9/21/1757 d. 9/11/1842 RICHMOND COUNTY, GEORGIA
He enlisted in June of 1775 at Richmond County, Virginia, and served as a Lieutenant in Captain George Sisson's Company of Virginia Minutemen and was involved in a skirmish with Governor Dunmore's Troops. From 1775 until 1778, he served as a Captain in the Virginia Troops and fought at the Battle of Great Bridge. He re-settled in the Edgefield District of South Carolina and was commissioned as a Captain in the South Carolina Troops and was later promoted to Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, and Colonel. He participated in the Battles of Spirit Creek, Ogeechee, Stono's Ferry, Savannah, Green Springs, Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mills, Charlotte, King's Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, Augusta, Eutaw Springs, and Dorchester. He later received a pension for his services.
See: (1) Georgia's Roster of the Revolution, p. 417.
(2) Roster of Revolutionary Soldiers in Georgia, v. 3, p. 82.
(3) Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, p. 408.
Source: Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers & Sailors, Patriots & Pioneers; Volume 2, by Ross Arnold & Hank Burnham with additions and corrections by: Mary Jane Galer, Dr. Julian Kelly, Jr., and Ryan Groenke. Edited by: Ryan Groenke.
A Georgia County-by-County compilation of Revolutionary War Patriots who made Georgia their permanent home and died here, including information on service history, birth dates, death dates and places of burial with an index.
Published by the Georgia Society Sons of the American Revolution, 2001.
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Author: Hammond Salley
Col. Samuel Hammond was born 21 September 1757 in Farmham Parish, Richmond, Virginia, and died 11 September 1842 in Beech Island, South Carolina.
In 1774, while at school near Dumfries, Virginia, he joined the Virginia militia and served as an Indian fighter at Fort Pitt in Governor Dunmore's War and was in the Battle of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. In 1775 he joined a volunteer company of infantry and marched to Williamsburg against Governor Dunmore during the Powder Expedition. After this, he returned to Richmond County, Virginia, was elected as a lieutenant in a company of minutemen, and was in a skirmish with Dunmore's troops at the Battle of Great Bridge in 1775. From December 1775 to December 1778, he served as captain of independent volunteer companies of Virginia troops and was involved with the Second Cherokee Wars in 1776. He worked for General Hand at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania in 1777-78.
In January 1779, he moved to Edgefield District, South Carolina and joined the army. In March 1779, he was commissioned captain. He was also a major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the state troops. Throughout the Revolution, he was engaged in battles in Georgia, and South and North Carolina: Spirit Creek, Ogeechee, Stono Ferry, Siege of Savannah, Green Springs, Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, Charlotte, King's Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation, Long Cane near Ninety-Six, SC, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, Siege of Augusta; Siege of Ninety-Six; and Eutaw Springs. During the later period of the war he was one of General Greene's most trusted subordinates.
In 1793 he served in the Creek Indian War and commanded a corps of Georgia Volunteers. In 1796 he was elected to the Georgia state Legislature and was appointed Surveyor-General. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives 1796-1798 and member of the Georgia State Senate 1799 - 1800. He was elected to the Eighth US Congress and served from 1803 until 1805. In 1804 President Jefferson appointed him Colonel-Commandant of the St. Louis District, one of the subdivisions of the new District of Louisiana where he served from 1805 to 1806. In the following years he also served as Judge of Court of Common Pleas, 1st President of the Legislative Council of Missouri, 1st president of the Bank of St. Louis, 1st Receiver of Public Monies for Land District and Delegate to Constitutional Convention of the State of Missouri.
Returning to South Carolina in 1824, he was elected Surveyor General in 1825 and served as Secretary of State from 1831 to 1835 when he retired to Beech Island, SC where he lived until his death in 1842.
In 1783 he married Rebecca Elbert Rhae, sister of General Samuel Elbert Rhae, Governor of Georgia, and widow of Col. John Rhae of Rhae's Hall, near Savannah, Georgia. She died in 1798. On 25 May 1802 he married Eliza Amelia O'Keefe, daughter of Sir Hugh O'Keefe and Margaret Eleanor Lincoln, emigrants from Munster, Ireland. Between both wives, he fathered six living children.
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