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.

The home farm was evidently divided between the sons, William, afterwards known as Gen. William Hammond, taking the easterly part, and building a house thereon now known as the Bonner house; was a man of considerable note in his day. He married Esther Miller, but left no descendants. The late Capt. Jonathan S. Odell was the executor of his will by which he left $500 each to his (Capt. Odell's) son, William Hammond Odell, and to the late Major William Hammond See. He was an officer in the war of 1812, and afterward a Militia General. At the dedication of the Monument to Isaac Van Wart, at present Klmsford, in June, 1829, Gen. Wm. Hammond and suite occupied a conspicuous post of honor. Gen. Hammond died January i, 1832, and his remains rest in the old churchyard of the Greenburgh Church, of which, as his tombstone states, he was a member.

Joseph, the other son of Col. James Hammond, married Jenny Brewer and lived at the old homestead. His daughter Nancy married Abram Brown, of the firm of Kip & Brown, the celebrated stage