young Tallassee King and other great men amongst the Creeks. These arrangements and treaties were preserved by Henry Laurens, President of the Continental Congress.
In 1779, Colonel Hammond was with his regiment and fought at the battle of Stono. In 1780, he cooperated with Clarke, and other Whigs, against the Tories and Indians in Georgia. In 1781, he was very active during the siege of Augusta; he with the infantry and Samuel Hammond with the cavalry. During this siege the war waged was one of the greatest barbarity. The Loyalist, Thomas Brown, who commanded at Augusta, with his Indian allies, put to death the prisoners taken with savage ferocity. And the Patriot militia, it is altogether probable, were sometimes not much better. Captain William Martin, of the artillery, the oldest of seven brave brothers, was killed here. Clarke, Harden, and the two Hammonds pushed the siege with great vigor. After the capture of Granby, Lee joined them with his legion, and Brown soon afterwards surendered. Pickens, Le Roy and Samuel Hammond then proceeded to Ninety-Six to assist General Greene. When the siege of Ninety-Six was raised, the Hammonds were sent westwardly and northwestwardly to protect Greene on his retreat, by preventing annoyance from the Tories. From the mountains they were instructed to proceed eastwardly to the Congaree. Proceeding eastwardly they fell in with the rear of the British army under
