Vail also had a daughter Tamer, who married Wm. Jones, and lived in New York, and afterward lived in Sleepy Hollow on what was formerly known as the Mead-Requa farm. They had Lovina who married Benjamin Lovett, the father of Mr. Isaac B. Lovett, who is so a greatgreat-grandson of Col. Hammond.

A daughter of David Hammond and Esther his wife, and sister of Mahala, married David Coxe, of Unionville, father of David H. Coxe of that place.

Isaac, son of Capt. Wm. Hammond, married Catherina Ackerman, Sept. 25, 1742, and had William born, June 22d, 1745 ; David, n 1748 ; Jacobus (James) June 9, 1750 ; Jan, Oct. 24, 1752 ; Mar-

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etje, Sept. 9, 1755 ; Hester, 1760, and Abraham, born Sept. 1757. This Abraham married Mary Hall and had sons Stephen, Staats, Geo. Washington, and Clark Hammond, who married Cornelia Beekman, and had a daughter who married the late Alfred Lester, and a son, Dr. Gerrapd Hammond, late of Spring Valley. Dr. Hammond, for a time, lived on the farm now occupied by the "Sheltering Arms," near Klmsford, and had a large practice hereabouts.

Geo. Washington Hammond, son of Abraham, married Louisa Van Wart, daughter of Daniel Van Wart, who was a former owner of the Lowery place. They had only one child, Susan Louisa, the wife of Mr. Thomas Rawcliffe, of Tarrytown.

Staats Hammond, whose parentage does not appear, was a Sergt. in Capt. Requa's Company ; was shot through the left leg, near Sing Sing, June 17, 1779 ; a .State Pensioner by the act of April 22, 17S6. From the Commissioners of Forfeiture he took title to no acres, north by Jacob Van Wart and Moses Miller, and west by Abraham Storms, as formerly possessed by Win.