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

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proprietors, who lived on the old Isaac Van Wart place near the site of the Youngs' house, and died there a few years since. J. Romaine Brown, Esq., of New York, is their son, and consequently a great-grandson of Col. Hammond. Joseph Hammond also had a daughter Esther and sons James and William.

Col. Hammond's will, proved August io, 1810, mentions his sons Joseph and William, daughter Lovina, wife of Solomon Hawes, granddaughters Ann Davids, Elizabeth Doty, Pamelia Van Wart, and grandson James Vail.

Capt. Solomon Hawes, son of Pelatiah, who resided at Peekskill, married Dovina Hammond, daughter of Col. Jas. Hammond, by whom he had twelve children. Joseph Hawes, eldest son of Captain Solomon, born Dec. 5, 1783, married Elizabeth Travis, of Peekskill, by whom he had three children : Cornelia Ann, Susan Eliza, William. Cornelia Ann married Philip J. Bonesteel, but left no issue. Susan Eliza never married. William married Sarah Felter, of New York, by whom he had six children: James Bonesteel HaWes, Edward West Hawes, Katherine Elizabeth, wife of Charles G. Stephens, William Augustus Plawes, Charles Felter Hawes,' and Annie Stephens Hawes. John Davids, a grandson of Wm. Davids the 1st, and probably son of Wm. Davids, 2d, married Anne, the sister of Col.