1. Lewis James Hammond III, born 1961
2. Lewis James Hammond Jr., born 1924; his brother, Allen King Hammond, had a daughter, Gayl (born 1960), and a son, Robert King Hammond (born 1961)
3. Lewis James Hammond, born in St. Louis on July 2, 1896
4. Ashley King Hammond, born 1861 in Cedar Falls, Iowa; brother of Florence Hammond Grinton; Ashley King Hammond was married to Jessie Robinson, and they had two children, Ashley Ballard and Lewis James; Ashley Ballard died about age 40; Ashley Ballard had a son (also named Ashley Ballard) who worked for a time at Hodge & Hammond, died in 1985, and is buried in Queens, New York; one of his sons (also named Ashley Ballard) was born in 1957, and lives in southern California; another son (by a different wife) is named Ashley King Hammond, was born in the late 1940s, lives in northern California, and has a son named Ashley King Hammoond; Jessie Robinson Hammond’s father, Charles Drake Robinson, graduated from Yale in 1829; Jessie’s brother was James Freed Robinson; Jessie and her husband are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Port Jefferson, New York, near their first son, Ashley Ballard Hammond, and Ashley Ballard’s daughter, Ruth; 1900 census lists Ashley K. and Jessie R. in St. Louis; Ashley is 38 years old, Jessie 42; Ashley is described as “Advertising Manager, City Daily”
5. Lewis James Hammond, born 1826 in Clear Creek, NY (Clear Creek is almost certainly a hamlet in Conewango, NY); husband of Louisa Chace Ashley; father of Ashley King Hammond and Florence Hammond Grinton; 1880 census lists Lewis and Louisa in Joliet, Illinois; the census describes Lewis as a cattle dealer, 53 years old, born in New York, father born in Rhode Island; 1860 census lists Lewis and Louisa in Cedar Falls, Iowa (Washington Township, Black Hawk County); Lewis is described as 32, a farmer, with real estate valued at $6,000; Louisa is 29; Louisa was born Jan. 27, 1831; her father was Cyrus Ashley (born Dec. 22, 1797 in Corinth, NY, died July 4, 1883 in Plainfield, IL; his father was also named Cyrus); her mother was Millicent Johnson (1791-1875); she married Lewis Nov. 28, 1852
6. James Hammond, born 1794 in Foster, Rhode Island, died Conewango, NY, 1862 (migration from Rhode Island to Western New York was a common pattern); husband of Ruby King; the original scrapbook contains a lengthy letter from James Hammond to his children, probably written in 1846
7. Capt. Joseph Hammond, Jr., born 1767 in Exeter, Rhode Island, died Clear Creek, NY, 1848; a farmer
8. Joseph Hammond, born 1738 in Newport, Rhode Island; a cooper
9. Joseph Hammond, born 1717 in North Kingstown, Rhode Island; died Newport, Rhode Island, 1792; married Elizabeth Paine in 1738
10. Joseph Hammond, born 1690, probably in Swansea, Massachusetts; died North Kingstown, Rhode Island, 1776; married Rachel Gardiner about 1715; began as a tailor in Swansea, then moved to North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and bought a farm on what has ever since been known as “Hammond Hill”
11. William Hammond, born about 1659 in Watertown, Massachusetts; probably died in Swansea
12. William Hammond, born about 1630; when his two children were born, he was living in Watertown, Massachusetts; fought in Swansea against Indians in King Philip’s War; killed by Indians; buried in Watertown in 1675
13. William Hammond, birth and parentage unknown; perhaps born in Lavenham, England in 1607; Lavenham is northeast of London (though most settlers in New England came from west England); it’s a tourist honeypot; “admitted freeman in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1636 and died there the next year”

• see Hammond Genealogy (a fat, red, 2-volume book) p. 476, vol. 1
• Pioneers of Massachusetts, by Pope, has a little information
• See New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 1876, vol. 30, p. 28, for article by Philip Battel that tries to separate William-of-London Hammonds from William-of-Watertown Hammonds; it says this about William-of-Watertown Hammonds:
  • Thomas Hammond of Lavenham, county Suffolk, married 1573, buried 1589
  • His son William baptized Oct. 30, 1575
  • William married Elizabeth Payne (or Penn) in 1605; Elizabeth was born about 1587; Elizabeth came to The New World in 1634, at the age of 47, with some of her children; William came to The New World about 1630
  • Like William, Elizabeth lived to a ripe old age; she died September 14, 1674
  • William died October 8, 1662, having outlived several of his children
  • At age 58, William wrote a letter (dated Sept. 26, 1633) from Watertown to Sir Simonds D’Ewes of Bury St. Edmonds (in England, near Cambridge and Lavenham); the letter is mentioned in Cronon’s Changes in the Land (p. 24), quoted in full in Emerson’s Letters from New England (p. 110), and preserved in the British Museum
  • William had a son whose name was also William
  • This William was baptized September 20, 1607 and died about 1637
• My ancestor was the William Hammond who was born about 1630, and died at Miles Garrison, on the Palmer River, in 1675
• This William’s father was “admitted freeman” in Lynn, Massachusetts in 1636 and died there in 1637 (I should check the history of Lynn); but was “freeman of Lynn” Hammond the same as the William Hammond who was baptized September 20, 1607? We don’t know.
• Philip Battel’s article in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register mentions a book called Founders of New England, which is excerpted in another issue of the New England Historical and Genealogical Register; I looked at this issue and found a list of the people on a ship called the Ipswich; included were Elizabeth Hammond and some of her children
• As for my paternal grandmother’s family, my father’s mother was Nellie McKinnon, whose family was from Scotland (originally the Isle of Mull, later Edinburgh); she was the youngest of six children; her siblings were Katherine (Kittie), Beatrice (Bea), Margaret, David, and John; her father’s name was probably John; Nellie was born about 1900, and came to the U.S. at about age six; when she came to the U.S., her mother had already died; Nellie also died young (about 1936)

Jarvis Side (my mother’s side):

• my mother’s parents were Walter Frederick Jarvis and Edythe Mae Dixon (born February 8, 1904), daughter of
• James Marsh Dixon, originally of Springfield, Missouri; husband of
• Edythe Hall Dixon, daughter of
• William Hall, a New York furrier; family has roots in Staten Island (?); his daughter Edythe Hall Dixon may be buried on Staten Island
• James Marsh Dixon was an executive with an international tobacco company. He was imprisoned briefly in Turkey at the start of World War I, freed with help from Ambassador Henry Morgenthau
• James Marsh Dixon was the eldest child of Josiah (Joseph?) B. Dixon, born Burlington, Iowa; may have lived in Springfield, Missouri; born October 21, 1847, died May 14, 1918 in Springfield, Missouri; married to Ida K. Curtis.
• James Marsh Dixon’s paternal grandfather was probably Thomas S. Dixon, born in Pennsylvania in 1792.
• James Marsh Dixon had 2 younger brothers (Joseph W. and Guy E.), and one younger sister (Ida).
• James Marsh Dixon’s mother, Ida K. Curtis, was born June 30, 1854 in Memphis, died April 13, 1930 in Corvallis, Oregon. Ida’s mother was Ophelia Farrell, born in Ohio December 27, 1815, died in Springfield, Missouri March 26, 1911. Ida’s father was Stephen B. Curtis, born in New York February 22, 1804, died in Tennessee July 22, 1861.
• Stephen’s parents were Comfort Curtis and Rachel Chase.
• Rachel was born in Dutchess County, New York, on February 3, 1756, and died on October 26, 1835.
• The Chase family goes all the way back to Abraham Chase, born October 6, 1652 in Yarmouth, Massachusetts.
• Comfort Curtis was born on July 17, 1746 in New York, and died April 26, 1817. One of his descendants, Ernest Alonzo Curtis, wrote to Harlow Curtis in 1950 that “Comfort Curtis founded and occupied the Curtis Homestead on ‘Curtis Hill’, a little north and west of White Creek.... Comfort and nearly all of the Baptist Congregation during the Revolutionary War remained loyal to England and on the eve of the Battle of Bennington nearly all of the men of fighting age joined General Von Phister under the Hessian General Baum, and were defeated and both Generals killed. The land of all the fighting Tories near White Creek was confiscated but Comfort Curtis' land was not taken from him.”
• According to the 1930 census, Edythe Hall Dixon was living alone in Manhattan at age 53, had no occupation, was renting for $192/month, was married, was age 20 at marriage, was born January 12, 1878 in New York City, her father and mother were born in New York. Her age is ambiguous, and every document gives a different year-of-birth for her. She was separated, and perhaps eventually divorced, from her husband.
• According to a family rumor (which I haven’t been able to confirm), my maternal grandmother’s ancestors included Jane Rebecca McFarren, who lived in Tennessee and was a large slaveholder.
• My maternal grandfather, Walter Frederick Jarvis, was born in Philadelphia on August 4, probably in 1893, and died in July 1965 (I remember him slightly, and remember my mother crying when she received the phone call saying that he had died). His Social Security number was 113-01-5804.
• Walter F. Jarvis’ mother was Jeanette (her father was from England).
• Walter F. Jarvis’ parents were both born in Germany (his father’s name was Joseph). This German heritage was concealed, I believe, during World War I. The name “Jarvis” doesn’t sound German, but Philadelphia seems a likely place for German immigrants to settle.
• Walter F. Jarvis had at least two brothers: Raymond (who married Barbara; they had a son named Raymond Jr. and a daughter named Barbara), and Harold, who was a minister.