Hammond, Jabez D
lawyer, jurist, state senator, congressman, author, was born Aug. 2, 1778, in New Bedford, Mass.
He was a lawyer and popular political writer of New York . He was a representative in congress from New York from 1815 to 1817, and, on the expiration of his term, was elected to the state senate, of which he was a member until 1821. He was elected county judge in 1838, and he was elected a regent of the university of New York, and held the office until his death. He published works entitled Julius Melbourn ; The Political History of New York; Life and Times of Silas Evidence of the Immortality of the Soul. He died Aug. 18, 1855, in Cherry Valley, N.
Cherry Valley, N. Y.