Archives of Maryland
(Biographical Series)

Philip Hammond (1697-1760)
MSA SC 3520-573

Biography:

Philip Hammond was born in 1697 in St. Anne's Parish in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.  He was the son of Charles Hammond (c. 1670-1713) and Hannah (Howard) Hammond.  He resided at "Howard's Adventure," and "Acton," Anne Arundel County.  His first wife was Comfort Duval; his second wife was Rachel Brice (1711-1786).  His children were Joshua (b. 1719; died young), Charles (1729-by 1786), John (1735-1784), Philip (d. 1783), Denton (d. 1782), and Matthias (1740-1786), Rezin (a male) (1745-1809), and Anne (m. Hopkins).

Hammond was a planter, landholder, merchant and officeholder.  He was a clerk in the Prerogative Office from 1718 to 1721, and a deputy commissary in Anne Arundel County from 1718 to 1720.  In 1729 he established Philip Hammond & Co., a business that included stores at Annapolis and New Town in which he was active until his death, when his son Charles took over.  He served in the Lower House of the Assembly representing Anne Arundel County from 1732 to 1760.  He was House Speaker in 1740, 1741, May Session (he resigned June 11, 1741, because of the increasing indisposition of his son, and was replaced by Robert King of Somerset County), and from 1749 to 1754.  He was a member of the vestry of St. Anne's Protestant Episcopal Church in Annapolis intermittently from 1727 to 1743.

At the time of his first election to public office he owned about 3,683 acres of land in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties, including about 400 acres that he inherited from his father in 1713; 250 acres inherited from his grandfather in 1730; and about 200 acres acquired by his second marriage.  His company, Philip Hammond & Co., owned an additional 900 acres in Anne Arundel County by 1732.  By the time of his death, his personal landholdings had grown to about 20,000 acres in Anne Arundel and Baltimore counties.  His inventory listed 107 slaves and silver plate valued at £3828.  He died on May 3, 1760 and was buried in the family cemetery near Gambrills in Anne Arundel County, today part of the U. S. Naval Academy Dairy Farm.

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