Excerpt from Charles Hammond and His Relations to Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams: Or Constitional Limitations and the Contest for Freedom of Speech and the Press; An Address Delivered Before the Chicago Historical Society, May 20, 1884
The Revolutionary War left George Hammond poor, and hoping to better his condition, he removed with his family and slaves to Western Virginia, in l785, locating near Wellsburg, in Brooke county.
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