Edward Hammett

- 1745

• Name	Edward Hammett
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Mar 1745	Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [1, 2]
  Burial	West Tisbury Village Cemetery, Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I34219	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Apr 2021

  
  

  Family	Experience Bowles,   b. Bef 4 Sep 1692
  Marriage	17 Jan 1704	Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Micah Hammett,   b. 1706   d. Abt 1755, Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts (Age 49 years)
  Family ID	F20138	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  He was a worsted comber. He first appears in the record at Taunton in 1680. He came to Tisbury in 1706, when Matthew Mayhew deeded to him a tract of land in Chilmark "to give incouragement to Cloathing." His parentage is unknown. "There is a fantastic legend about him to the effect that his mother, a beautiful English girl was captured from a ship by some Algerian pirates and she became the consort of the chief. A son was born who bore the name of Hamid and when he grew up his mother told him the secret of his birth and bade him escape to her own people, which advice he followed. Those who wish to believe this story will probably do so." [Charles Edward Banks, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2130] The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts by Charles Edward Banks. Boston: George H. Dean, 1911., date only. [S660] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire by Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939. [S5447] Photograph and transcription of Edward Hammet's gravestone.