In fact, if you drive through Crown Point you'll see there is still a Hammond library. The references to Hammondville that I've seen conform to what Teresa LeClare said, that it was not much more than a tent town. A John Hammond of Crown Point was a captain and organizer of Company H of the 5th NY Cavalry, and his father, Charles F. Hammond, Esq., "advanced the funds for the purchase of all the original horses, amounting to one hundred and eight, supplied the company. These horses were selected with extreme care, in reference to their adaptedness to the service, and were probably superior to those of any troop in the army." Certainly enough wealth to accord with naming a hamlet. This from p. 258, "the Military and Civil History of the County of Essex, New York...." by Winslow Watson, 1869, which any Essex County researcher should read. It's available at Cornell's Making of America Website, at http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/moa-cgi?notisid=ANX1281 Viewable in scanned form OR IN TEXT! Cornell has provided an amazing resource. -- Carl Johnson [email protected] http://home.nycap.rr.com/cjohnson Researching Peck, Johnson, Cath, Goodrich, Crisalle in Franklin, Essex, and Schenectady Counties, NY