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. He was evidently the man for the times on this Manor, and labored with unflinching zeal and courage for the success of the Patriot cause. General Pierre Van Cortlandt is authority for the statement that in 1775, Col. Hammond, by order of the Provincial Congress, went up to Coitlandt's Manor to disarm the Tories who were numerous there -- more numerous there, as appears, than on Philipse Manor.

Col. Hammond was chosen one of the Trustees of the old Dutch Church at its re-organization after the Revolution, in 1787. He was also one of the civil officers of the Manor elected in 1778-9. Prior to the war he had been for a time an Inn-Keeper.

He left quite an estate. The home farm comprised 242 acres, bounded east by Joseph Youngs, north by Thaddeus x-Yvery, south by highway, and west by Joseph Paulding. He had also conjointly with his brother-in-law, Capt. Geo. Combs, purchased the farm which had belonged to their father-in-law, Thos. Wildey, who is said to have been killed at the battle of White Plains, being the present Benedict-Cobb estate, which then comprised 272 acres.