Ancestry of
William Durant

Co-Founder of General Motors and Founder of Frigidaire

Benjamin Hammond

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• • 6th Great-grandfather of William Durant — 9th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 440 
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  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1621 
  • Birth Location:
  • London, England 
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  • Death Date:
  • ABT 1703 
  • Death Location:
  • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Mary Vincent
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1650 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts 
  • Child:

  Samuel Hammond (Ahnentafel No:220 )

  • Notes: 

  • Claims that Benjamin Hammond's parents were either William Hammond and Elizabeth Penn, daughter of daughter of Giles Penn, or William Hammond and Elizabeth Paine, daughter of William and Agnes (Neves) Paine, are unproven and likely false.

• Sources for Benjamin Hammond

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1876, Vol. 30, pp. 28-29.
  • ² The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1967, Vol. 25, No. 2, p. 75.
  • ³ Hammond, Roland, A History and Genealogy of the Descendants of William Hammond of London, England and His Wife Elizabeth Penn . . ., Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1894), 10.
  • ⁴ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 120.