The inquiries regarding Squires from 2005 were made by me. I now have a significant amount of information on that family. As for Martha Hammond,I did not have her Father's given name but it is said he was a British Naval officer. Other information about Martha Bennett may dispute the naval officer theory. I do have information relating to Martha Bennett's second marriage to a Scott. They had three children, Betsy, John, and Moses.
I also have Martha (Hammond) Squires siblings; Zebedee, Nathaniel, Patience, and Abigail.
I would be interested in finding if there is any connection to a Capt.Archelaus Hammond b.May 09,1736 who married Jerusha Newcomb(Newcombe), d/o Simon Newcomb and Jerusha Lathrop.

I have the following on Archelaus:
A sailor, of Rochester, Mass. On 10 May 1771, Capt. Hammond deeded land to his father-in-law, Simon Newcomb. His last transfer of land in Cornwallis was in Nov. 1779. He lived near Starr's Point but removed to New Brunswick on the St. John's River. Five children were born in Cornwallis, others in New Brunswick.

Following from a web site page of Genealogist, Ruby M. Cusack
Marion Gilchrist Reicker's

"Those Days Are Gone Away"
"When the Loyalists arrived in 1783, Zebulon Estey, Thomas Hart, Benjamin Bubar, Edward Coy, John Crabtree, Archelaus Hammond, John Kendrick and others had already settled in Gagetown but some of them were turned away to make room for the newcomers."


PERSONAL DATA: Archelaus Hammond was a Planter from Massachusetts who settled in Nova Scotia in 1761 after the French and Indian War. As an American he was offered a land grant from the lands vacated by the Acadians who would not take the oath of allegiance to Great Britain and who were forcibly removed. After living there a decade, marrying and having five children, he moved to a new grant of land at Machias, ME. After a few years there he left Maine for Gage Town upriver from St. John, NB (Nova Scotia at that time), had another five or so children (the numbers and birth records of his later children are not known), and established a farm about 1780, three years before the Loyalists arrived. Upon their arrival they expropriated his lands, and Archelaus moved first to Jemseg, and then further upriver to Kingsclear, York Cty, where he and two sons obtained some 872 acres on three lots. The town of Hammondville was established and the Hammond Cemetery located a mile to the south on One of the former Hammond land grants.
The first Hammond to come to New England was Elizabeth who came from London as a widow with four children. She came to Scituate, MA with 34 other families who followed Reverend Lathrop. They soon moved south past Plymouth to Barnstable, then Sandwich and Yarmouth. Finally, in 1864, four of her grandsons moved west to found the village of Mattapoisett in the township of Rochester where many Hammonds lived and died and were buried in the Hammond Cemetery.
The NB Hammonds trace their lineage back to Francis and son John Cooke who came on the Mayflower in 1620. John Cooke’s daughter Sarah married Arthur Hathaway in 1652 in Duxbury, MA. They moved to Dartmouth near Rochester, had a daughter Mary who married Samuel Hammond in Rochester about 1681. He was the grandson of Elizabeth who immigrated from London, and his grandson was Archelaus II.