The Hammers and Allied Families, with Their Family Circles Centering in Pendleton County, West Virginia


Book Description

George Hammer purchased land on the south branch of the Potomac in 1761, in what was then Augusta County, Virginia. He died in 1801. Descendants and relatives lived in West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Maryland, Illinois, Texas, California, Montana, Kansas, Michigan, Florida and elsewhere.
















Key and Allied Families


Book Description

This work concentrates upon families with a strong connection to Virginia and Kentucky, most of which are traced forward from the eighteenth, if not the seventeenth, century. The compiler makes ample use of published sources some extent original records, and the recollections of the oldest living members of a number of the families covered. Finally. The essays reflect a balanced mixture of genealogy and biography, which makes for interesting reading and a substantial number of linkages between as many as six generations of family members.










The Granberry Family and Allied Families


Book Description

Moses Granberry was born in about 1700. He married Elizabeth. They had eight children. He died in 1753 in Norfolk County, Virginia. Ancestors descendants and relatives lived mainly in England, Virginia, Massachusetts and Georgia.




The Hammers Genealogy


Book Description

Peter Hammer was born 19 August 1757 in Bucks Co., Pennsylvania, married 17 Sept. 1812 in Monongalia Co., Virginia to Sarah Pearce, and died 18 April 1838.