General Notes

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Also Known As:<_AKA> Thomas of /Newton/
Lavenham, home of Thomas Hammond and Elizabeth Carson is today a wonderful example of a beautiful early English town.It is as it was in the 1400's.

Website  www.lavenham.co.uk  to explore avirtual tour of the town.

with twin brother John

INFORMATION ON THOMAS HAMMOND OF NEWTON, MASS. CAN BE FOUND IN
THE HAMMOND

FAMILIES IN AMERICA, VOL. II PAGES 1 THRU 5.

Thomas Hammond of Melford, England was baptized at Melford,
county of

Suffolk, England, with his twin brother John on Sept. 2, 1603.
He was a

first cousin of William Hammond who settled in Watertown, Mass
in 1636. He

married in Lavenham , England, Nov. 12, 1623 to Elizabeth Cason,
daughter

of Robert and Prudence (Hammond) Cason. She was a grand-daughter
of Robert

and Elizabeth(Myrtle)Hammmond, of Great Whelnetham, England.
Thomas

Hammond was one of the first settlers in Hingham,Mass. He had
land granted

to him there in 1636, and took the freeman's oath on March 9,
1636-7. He

was on the grand jury in 1637. His two younger children were
baptized in

Hingham. The elder children were undoubtedly born in England,
although the

place of their birth has not been ascertained.Thomas Hammond,
Vincent

Druce, John Parker, Nicholas Hodgdon and John Winchester all
settled in

Hingham at about the same time; all of these removed from there
and

settled in the same neighborhood, near the boundary line between
what are

now towns of Newton and Brookline, Mass. His homestead, in
Newton, was

near the Brookline boundary and near a beautiful sheet of water,
which has

since borne his name, "Hammond Pond". The homestead remained in
the family

several generations, Josiah Hovey Hammond, father of Mr. George
W.

Hammond, of the Forest Paper Co., having been the last of the
race who was

born there. Thomas Hammond was one of the wealthiest men in town
in his

day. He died in 1675, leaving an unsigned will which was
admitted to

probate. It is found in Middlesex Probate, No. 7160. Thomas
Hammond is

also mentioned in a book called the history of Newton, Mass
which can be

found in the  Seattle public library. Family history of Newton
and first

settlers pages 1 thru 11.

EARLY HISTORY OF ENGLAND-Hingham, Mass. dirived it's name from
the old

Hingham in England. The mosaic into which the facts about Old
Hingham

should be fitted is no less than the history of England from
1600 to 1650,

momentous years which witnessed the rise of modern democracy.
The struggle

for freedom it is true can be traced far back to this period.
Judged

broadly it is as old as time. Mighty human issues hung upon this
contest.

Absolute monarchies were rising on the continent. It was bodly
said in

Jame's Parliament, and probably with truth, that England was the
only

country in Europe where the people were fighting for their
rights. On one

side were the common people, sometimes ignorant and mistaken,
but doggedly

persistent. The parish clergy often were with them, and a few of
the

bishops. On the other side was the Court, comprising the King,
the nobles,

and the higher clergy. The two parties were fundamentally at
varience, The

Court neither understood nor sympathized with the rising
democracy.The

desirability of a truly representative government, concerning
the people's

right to govern themselves, upon the principles that we will pay
no taxes

except those which we ourselves shall levy, about our freedom to
think and

act as we please, and to worship God as we deem helpful, on
these

essential underlying principles of democracy we all agree. In
England

there was a mighty difference of opinion about these matters
between 1600

and 1650. Men fought for them to the death and to death men
fought against

them. It was for these great privileges of freedom that together
with

other