- Samuel Hammond
Samuel Hammond (
September 21 ,1757 -September 11 ,1842 ) was aUnited States Representative from Georgia in the8th United States Congress .Biography
He was born in Farnham Parish,
Richmond County, Virginia . He attended the common schools and served as a volunteer under Governor Dunmore against Native Americans. During theAmerican Revolutionary War he served in theContinental Army . He was promoted to Assistant Quartermaster at the siege of Savannah. He served as member of the "council of capitulation" at Charleston and shortly after the war settled in Savannah.Hammond was a Surveyor General of Georgia in 1796. He served in the
Creek War and commanded a corps of Georgia Volunteers in 1793. He was a member of theGeorgia House of Representatives 1796-1798 and a member of theGeorgia Senate 1799 and 1800. He was elected as a Republican to the Eighth Congress and served fromMarch 4 ,1803 , untilFebruary 2 ,1805 , when he became Civil and Military Governor of theUpper Louisiana Territory where he served from 1805 to 1824. He was a receiver of public moneys inMissouri and president of theBank of St. Louis .Hammond moved to
South Carolina in 1824 and became a member of theSouth Carolina House of Representatives . He then served as Surveyor General of South Carolina in 1825 andSecretary of State of South Carolina 1831-1835. He retired from public life and died at "Varello Farm," on the South Carolina side of theSavannah River , nearAugusta, Georgia in 1842. He was buried in Hammond Cemetery,New Richmond, South Carolina .Samuel Hammond was also a Freemason and member of
Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M. at Savannah, Georgia.Fact|date=October 2008 Solomon's Lodge No. 1, F. & A. M. was established by the renowned Freemason and founder of the Colony of Georgia - General James Edward Oglethorpe on February 21, 1734 and is now the "Oldest Continuously Operating English Constituted Lodge of Freemasons in the Western Hemisphere".References
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