He unquestionably must have been a man of resources as well as of courage, tactful as well as masterful, of the people and yet a leader of them; strongly supporting the Congresses and Conventions and Coinmanders-in-Chief, responding to every call to duty, and yet shrewdly looking out for the personal welfare and safety of the people of this Manor and of the men under his command, and everywhere asserting himself in their interest and giving voice to their desires. And it was such tactful leadership that gave coherency to the patriotic sentiment of this Manor and helped mightily to keep it in line with the cause of the Colonies.

Col. Hammond had all the fire and zeal of a veritable son of Mars and in shrewdness, well, we can pay him no higher compliment in that direction than to say that he would have been a good match for his kinsman of a later day, the veteran Capt. Jacob Storm. He had an abundance of self-confidence, and would as soon dash off a line to "Gen. Geo. Washington, Esquire," as to anybody else. He had no fear of the enemy in front, and if there were foes in his camp, he rode over them in such a way that he carried everything before him. His trial by Court Martial and triumphant vindication iiom the charges made against him, showed his invulnerable record and h:s adroit manipulation of the things and men that were arrayed against him.

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Others might hesitate or be discouraged, but he never faltered, and the neigh of his fiery charger, and the clanking of his scabbard were enough to put courage into the timid and make each man feel himself a hero until the next hour of danger. His thoughtfulness of others is strikingly apparent in the letter of his written when a prisoner at Flatlands, in which he more urgently asked for the exchange of others than he did for himself.