Birth date given as 9 Feb 1734 in Genealogy of the Hammond Family.
Notes from Family Record written by Elnathan Hammond, Sr.: "My son John Arnold Hammond with his wife and two children, a son and daughter, a negro boy and negro girl, with all his household goods, provision and some stock, removed from Hence and sailed for Cornwall, in Minis in Nova Scotia to begin a settlement there, having the last summer lived and taken up a right of land there and made some preparation for a settlement.
John Arnold Hammond was later taken by the English European Enemies and carried a prisoner to New York and died in a hospital some time June 1781."
Notes in Descendants of Benjamin Hammond: This paragraph following his marriage and death in the record, contains the only allusion to the children of John Arnold Hammond; it is continued for a line or two in cipher. His wife, Mary Scott, is spoken of by the descendants as a niece of Benjamin Franklin. He returned from Nova Scotia, and engaged on the patriot side in the revolution, was captured aboard a ship, taken to New York and died a prisoner. The record of his descendants at Middlebury is preserved in a family bible.
History and Genealogy of Descendants of William Hammond, p 197:
John Arnold m. Jun 6, 1754, at Newport, RI, Mary Scott, who is said to have been a niece of Benjamin Franklin. After his marriage he went with his family to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, with the intention of founding a settlement there. He afterwards returned and engaged on the patriot side of the Revolution, was captured aboard a ship, taken to New York, and died a prisoner in the Hospital sometime in Jun 1781.
Birth date given as 9 Feb 1734 in Genealogy of the Hammond Family.
Notes from Family Record written by Elnathan Hammond, Sr.: "My son John Arnold Hammond with his wife and two children, a son and daughter, a negro boy and negro girl, with all his household goods, provision and some stock, removed from Hence and sailed for Cornwall, in Minis in Nova Scotia to begin a settlement there, having the last summer lived and taken up a right of land there and made some preparation for a settlement.
John Arnold Hammond was later taken by the English European Enemies and carried a prisoner to New York and died in a hospital some time June 1781."
Notes in Descendants of Benjamin Hammond: This paragraph following his marriage and death in the record, contains the only allusion to the children of John Arnold Hammond; it is continued for a line or two in cipher. His wife, Mary Scott, is spoken of by the descendants as a niece of Benjamin Franklin. He returned from Nova Scotia, and engaged on the patriot side in the revolution, was captured aboard a ship, taken to New York and died a prisoner. The record of his descendants at Middlebury is preserved in a family bible.
History and Genealogy of Descendants of William Hammond, p 197:
John Arnold m. Jun 6, 1754, at Newport, RI, Mary Scott, who is said to have been a niece of Benjamin Franklin. After his marriage he went with his family to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, with the intention of founding a settlement there. He afterwards returned and engaged on the patriot side of the Revolution, was captured aboard a ship, taken to New York, and died a prisoner in the Hospital sometime in Jun 1781.
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