the "Oldest Continuously Operating English Constituted Lodge of Freemasons in the Western Hemisphere".
"It is remarkable," says his biographer, "that although so much of his early life was familiarized with battles and bloodshed, he preserved his natural gentleness and suavity of manner to the last - enlivening every circle where he went with his cheerful sallies of good humor."
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Appletons Encyclopedia,
Chapman, John A. A History of Edgefield County, SC
Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution. p. 408. A.A.3280; M2; T365.
Georgia and Georgians, VOL. 6 pg. 3180.
Robert Laemar, the Elder, Son: Phillip Laemar conv. to Samuel Hammond tract gr. to Martin Campbell. Edgefield File Misc. B-177 Samuel Hammond -m- Anelia O'Keefe 25 May 1802. (Set)
