Richard Hammond

  General Notes:

On Suffolk Records Office website:

Bastardy bond; Richard Hammond of Coddenham, cordwainer, to churchwardens and overseers for £100 to indemnify parish from bastard child of Anne Bradstreet who lately lived in parish of St Margaret, Ipswich - 17 April 1742 (FB101/G2/6).

Richard Hammonds will:

In the name of God Everlasting Amen = Richard Hammond of Coddenham in the County of Suffolk Cordwainer in the Dioces of Norwich being advanced in years nevertheless of sound & perfect minde & Disposeing memory Thanks be to the Almighty God for that Inestimable blessing = Therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body & although my Thread of Life hath escaped the various contingences incident to Human Natur yet by cource of perfecting time it must be drawing to its final period & my body hastening apace to the dark silent grave the rendezvous of all the sons & daughters of Adam = from whose fall I know that it is by the wise disposer of all events appointed unto all his descendants once to die from which decree no earthly potent is exempted according to that irrevocable sentance denounced against our first parents in paradice who in their first strenth & vigor of nature could not withstand nor resist the force of that great leveller of mankind unto which infirmities the bodies of Adam & Eve were subjected in their state of innocence from which admonition I draw my conclusions that my departure is approaching near at hand = & from those expectations I do make declare & ordain this present manuscript to be my Last Will & Testament.To wit principally & first of all I resign my soul through the meritorious merits purchased for me with the most precious blood of my only Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ by whose atonement I recommend the same as to a faithful creator into the hands of God who gave it = my body I commit to the dark & silent prison of the grave in obedience to that doom pronounced against my first parent by the great monarch of the whole earth Dust that art & to dust thou shall return. To be interred in Coddenham churchyard between the two graves of my most dutiful & dearly beloved children Susan & William At the discretion of my executrix herein after named to whom I commit the sole order of that last memorial office of Christian duty to my silent corpes = nevertheless braving Death & the grave in the tryumphing language of the Prince of the Apostles in not fearing the sting of the one nor the victory of the other as not doubting but that at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same body again & that without diminuation of parts by the Almighty operative power of God through the merciful merits assured to me & all true believers by the glorious Trophy & Resurrection of our Lord & divin Saviour Jesus Christ our only triumphant & victorious deliverer from all our potential & formidable. enemy to all allied to Adam = And as concerning such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased Almighty God to bless me with in this life I give devise & dispose thereof in the manner & form following as first of all my just debts funeral expences & probat of this my Will be duly paid and then = Item I give and bequeath to honour Susanna my dearly beloved wife all my houshold goods and moneys in hand & the rents of my real estates and all interest of all moneys on mortgages. etc

  Noted events in his life were:

• Marriage: to Susanna Walker, 29 September 1717, Coddenham, Suffolk.

• Occupation: Florist, To 1746, Coddenham, Suffolk.

• Occupation: Cordwainer (Shoe Maker): Coddenham, Suffolk.

Richard married Susanna Walker on 29 September 1717 in Coddenham, Suffolk. (Susanna Walker died in 1776 in Coddenham, Suffolk and was buried on 17 June 1776 in Coddenham, Suffolk.)