Samuel Hammond (SEP 21 1757 - SEP 11 1842) company of mounted volunteers to be attached to Le Roy Hammond's regiment. He did so, and on the 3d of March, 1779, he was commissioned by Governor Rutledge captain of company, and continued in that service until the surrender of Lincoln in May, 1780, was known in the upper country. Samuel's Cavalry troop was frequently attached to his uncle's, Col. LeRoy Hammond's, regiment. He was also a major, lieutenant-colonel, and colonel in the state troops. He was engaged in the battles at Spirit Creek, Ogeechee, Stono Ferry, Savannah (where his older brother Charles, a captain under Col. LeRoy Hammond, was wounded, Green Springs, Hanging Rock, Musgrove's Mill, Charlotte, King's Mountain, Blackstock's Plantation, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, Augusta, Eutaw Springs, and Dorchester. Before the fall of Charleston, during Prevost's invasion, he had fought at the battle of Stono, under Colonels Henderson and Malmedy. At the seige of Savannah, these officers with their men made a gallant attack upon the left of the British lines. He was promoted to Assistant Quartermaster at the siege of Savannah. He served as member of the "council of capitulation" at Charleston.