| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Email Us | Fourth Generation39. Israel HAMMOND was born on 15 October 1707.275 He was baptized in 1799 in Mattapoisett, Plymouth, MA.276 He died in 1809 at the age of 102. Israel has reference number 472. Mattapoisett etc, p 51: Israel Hammond (the great-grandfather of the Noah Hammond who copied the Proprietor's Books) was a prominent man in business, church, and society, and kept a slave, Uncle Tom, who held an honorable position as a member of the family. The story is told that once when efforts were being made at the Hammond Mill to catch a thief, Tom said he was afraid. "Afraid of what?" he was asked. "Afraid the thief is one of our good old honest neighbors," was the reply. A few slaves were then owned in New England, and the ships of Massachusetts towns brought them over rather freely for the southern market. Freeedom was offered to Mr. Hammond's "Uncle Tom," but he declined to accept, and died a slave and a self-respectin and honest man. Israel HAMMOND and Elizabeth WILBUR were married in 1736 in Rochester, Plymouth, MA.277 Elizabeth WILBUR was born in 1712 in Rochester, Plymouth, MA. She died in 1802 at the age of 90 in Rochester, Plymouth, MA. Israel HAMMOND-159 and Elizabeth WILBUR-2880 had the following children:
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