HAMMOND, JOHN (1643-1707).
BORN: in 1643,
probably on Isle of Wight, England; probably second son. IMMIGRATED:
ca. 1655 as a minor with his father and brother. RESIDED in Anne Arundel
County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FATHER: Thomas
Hammond, a colonel in the Parliamentary army. BROTHER: Thomas Hammond.
MARRIED first, Mary (?-by 1678), daughter of Matthew Howard and wife
Ann. Her brothers were Cornelius Howard (2-1680), Matthew (ca. 1640-1692/93), who married Sarah Dorsey; Samuel; John; and Philip, who married Ruth Baldwin. Her sisters were Elizabeth, who married Henry Ridgeley (2-1710); Anne. Her nephew was Matthew Howard
(ca. 1675-1750). Her nieces were Sarah Howard, who married first, John
Worthington (1650-1701), and second, John Brice (2-1713); Hannah
Howard, who married first, Charles Hammond (ca. 1670-1713), and second,
Edmond Benson (1687-1734), MARRIED second, by November 1678 Mary, widow of (first name unknown) Roper. CHILDREN. SONS Thomas Hammond (?-ca. 1724/25), who married first, Rebecca Larkin Lightfoot, and second, Mary Heath; John Hammond (ca. 1665-1742/43), who married Ann, daughter of Nicholas Greenberry (1627-1697); William (?-1711/12), who married Elizabeth Cockey; and Charles Hammond (ca. 1670-1713). DAUGHTERS: Mary, who married Cornelius Howard (ca. 1670-1717), son of Cornelius Howard (?-1680); Elizabeth, who married first, Richard Moss,
and second, Thomas Cockey, PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: literate.
RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: a Quaker as a young man; converted to
Anglicanism by the late 1680s. SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES.
established one of the most prominent families on the Western Shore;
his business often carried him to England; he was a critical figure in
the selection of the first royal Council in 1691. OCCUPATIONAL
PROFILE a merchant active in the transatlantic trade; planter. PUBLIC
CAREER. LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Anne Arundel County, 1692-1693 (Elections and Privileges. probably chairman 1; Accounts 1; Aggrievances 2),
1694-1697 (Laws 7; Elections and Privileges. chairman 7), 1697/98-1698
(Elections and Privileges, chairman 1; appointed to Council after the
2nd session); Upper House, 1699-1700 appointed before the 3rd session),
1701-1704, 1704-1707. OTHER PROVINCIAL
OFFICES justice, Provincial Court. 1694-1698 (quorum, 1696-1698);
Council, 1698-1707; associate justice, Court of Chancery, 1699, justice.
Vice-Admiralty Court, 1702. LOCAL OFFICES justice, Anne Arundel County,
1685-1694 (quorum, 1689-1694); St. Anne's Parish Vestry, Anne Arundel
County, 1704-1705. MILITARY SERVICE captain, 1691 or 1692-1694; major, 1694-1698;
lieutenant colonel, 1698-1707; major general of the Western Shore,
1707. STANDS ON PUBLIC/PRIVATE ISSUES supported the revolution of 1689.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION over 614 acres. WEALTH AT
DEATH, DIED: on November 24, 1707. PERSONAL PROPERTY: TEV, £1,8710.1.6
(including 22 slaves); FB, £1,631.3.8. LAND: ca. 2,609 acres.
Edward C. Papenfuse, Alan F. Day, David W. Jordan, and Gregory A. Stiverson, A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789, vol 1: A-H (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979), 393.
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