Ambrose Hammonds
and Ann Morgan

I. John Hammonds (aka Hammon) b about 1750 VA d about 1816 Russell Co VA m. about 1780 to Margaret Elizabeth Amburgey.

II. Robert Hammonds

III. Nathaniel Hammon

III. Mary Hammonds b 1759 d 27 Jan 1854 m. 25 Jun 1782 Wilkes Co NC to Samuel Johnson (Captain) b 1757 Prince William VA (later of Wilkes Co NC).

IV. Elizabeth Hammonds (aka Hamons), b 1769 Surry, Wilkes Co NC d 1857 Letcher Co KY (now Knott Co KY), buried Carr Fork Memorial Cemetery, Brinkley, Knott Co KY; m. 3 Jul 1787 Roaring River, Wilkes Co NC to John Amburgey Jr b 1758 Rumsfield Parish Culpepper Co VA d 3 May 1831 Perry Co KY (now Knott Co KY), buried Carr Fork Memorial Cemetery, Brinkley, Knott Co KY, s/o John Amburgey Sr and Anna Unknown.

June 29, 1794, Wilkes Co. N, Aug. term, abstracts and deeds

Will of Ambrose Hammonds:
Wife: Ann (I have her as a Morgan.) my whole estate her lifetime or widowhood---at her death to be divided equally among my four children.

1. John
2. Robert
3. Mary Johnson
4. Elizabeth Amburgey

Names 8 negroes to be let out for the use by his children. Richard Allen and Ben Martin to assist in dividing estate.

On Jul 20 1747, Ambrose Hammond paid thirty pounds to Stephen Stone for 400 acres on the north side of the Appomatox River in Southam Parish, Goochland Cty, VA (Deed Bk 5, p.298). The following year (Jan 25 1747/48) he and his wife Anne sold 100 acres of this tract to John Nelson of Southam Parish in Goochland Cty, for Twenty Pounds (Deed Bk 5, p. 455; witness William Hamon), and on Jan 26, 1747/48 they sold 150 acres to Matthew Nelson for Twenty pounds. (Deed BK 5 p.457). In all three deeds, Ambrose was said to be a resident of St. Margaret's Parish in Caroline Cty, VA.

According to researcher Stratton O. Hammon ("Saga of John Hammon Revolutionary War Hero and Kentucky Pioneer", 1979), the Hammond's and related Holbrook families left Virginia around 1775, as a result of religious difficulties. They were "Desenters bearing the Denomination of Baptists &c." and were seeking the freedom to " meet together for the worship of God in our way. . ." William Hammond( brother of Ambrose) became the minister of the South Fork of the Roaring River Baptist Church.
In 1779, Ambrose Hammond received from the State of North Carolina a grant of 200 acres on the Middle Fork of the Roaring River for fifty shillings per acre (Deed bk 1-A, p.246). Ambrose and his wife were members of the South Fork of the Roaring River Church, whick was organized by William Hammond. In 1785, Ambrose was one of four delegates to go to the conference at the Brier Creek Church. In 1789 he and his wife received their letters of Dismission from this church, perhaps to join the Gambrill's Hollow Church which was organized in 1786 with Elder William Hammond being the first pastor. In 1785 an Ambrose Hammond was appointed a Justice of the Peace in the County.
Ambroses will was signed on June 29 1794 and was in probate in the August term 1794 ( Wilkes Cty, NC will book 1). He left his estate to his wife Ann, including his eight Negroes, and after her decease to be equally divided among his four children, John, Robert, Mary Johnson, and Elizabeth Amburga(e). He named his eight Negroes and stated that " I leave it to the discression (sic) of my beloved wife to let them out to the use of the children in her life time as she seas (sic) cause, and after her decease the hole (sic) to be divided between the above mentioned children and them that gets the sorriest chance of the Negroes let it be made up equal out of the stock and house stuf (sic) and if they can't agree between themselves about the dividing the estate - my desire is that Cols Richard Allen & Benjamin Martin should assist in dividing it.