Jason Hammond


		b. February 1, 1762 

bp. Bolton, Connecticut 

m. April 24, 1788, Rachel Hale 

d. September 27, 1830 

pd. Bath, Ohio

Jason Hammond, son of Nathaniel Hammond and father of Horatio Hammond, was an older brother to Calvin Hammond. He was born in Bolton, Conn., and was married to Rachel Hale, daughter of Theodore Hale, of Glastonbury, Conn., and sister of Jonathan Hale, on April 24th, 1788. He died on Sept. 27st, 1830, aged 68 years, 7 months and 25 days. Rachel, his wife, died Nov. 11th, 1824, aged 66 years. Their children were:

Theodore, b. May 11, 1789, d. Sept. 3, 1856
Rachel, b. Jan. 22, 1791, d. Jan. 26, 1868
Jason, b. Aug. 22, 1792, d. July 23, 1796
Lewis, b. April 22, 1794, d. March 10, 1849
Mary, b. March 12, 1796, d. Aug. 27, 1850
Horatio, b. October 24, 1798, m. April 14, 1825, Louisa Fisk

Most of the material in this section on Jason Hammond, and Horatio Hammond, on page , as well as some of the information in the section on early New England Hammonds, starting on page , is from a booklet, ``The Genealogy of the Family of Horatio Hammond'', printed in Galesburg, Ill., in 1866. It was in the possession of Orson Ward Hammond in his home in Jackson, Tennessee and left with other letters and family pictures to his daughter, Emma Mai Hammond at his death in July 1930. It was largely forgotten or overlooked until connections with the Ohio families were discovered in 1974 by Elton Watlington, a grandson of Orson W. Hammond. At that time Emma Mai Hammond recalled that her father had left a thin booklet with a record of the ``Old New England'' family with his other papers. She then produced the booklet for us to see that we were rediscovering what was already known to him and his siblings.