Peter Hammond
Peter Hammond was a native of Germany. He came to Pennsylvania and was one of the first settlers at Hummelstown, in Dauphin County, a town Frederick Hummel laid out in 1762, about nine miles east of Harrisburg. He farmed there, and at one time he owned large tracts of land. He died in Dauphin County.
The town began as Frederick Town, named for its founder, and the tax collectors of Lancaster County listed its householders by name from 1771. On the lists of 1771, 1772 and 1773 the only man of this surname in the town is Jacob Hamon, written Hammar and Hamma in the later years. He is gone from the lists of 1779 and 1782, and no household of the name appears anywhere in Dauphin County in the census of 1790. The 1897 sketch is the only source that calls the settler Peter, so the early Hummelstown Hammon may have been this Jacob, or a Peter who held no taxable property in the town in those years.
His son Peter was born at Hummelstown about 1775, grew up and married there, and later moved to Franklin County. The son was still at Hummelstown in 1814, when a daughter of his was christened at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church.
That congregation kept few records in the years when the son was born. Michael Enterline, its pastor for ten years until 1779, entered the baptisms of only 21 children, and after William Kurtz left in 1795 the church had no regular minister until 1804.
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Cite: Heirology, "Peter Hammond", https://heirology.com/ancestors/peter-hammond-c3ec8b.