Person:George Sumner (6)

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George Sumner
b.1634 Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
d.11 Dec 1715 Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 22 Oct 1625
  1. William SumnerAbt 1627 - 1675
  2. Joane Sumner1630 - 1695
  3. Deacon Roger Sumner1632 - 1698
  4. George Sumner1634 - 1715
  5. Samuel Sumner1638 -
  6. Elizabeth Sumner1640 - Bef 1688
  7. Increase Sumner1642/43 - 1683
  8. Abigail SumnerAbt 1646 - 1657
  9. Mary SumnerAbt 1647 -
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  George Sumner1634 - 1715
  • W.  Mary Baker1642 - 1719
m. 7 Nov 1662
  1. Mary Sumner1663/64 - 1717
  2. George Sumner1665/66 - 1733
  3. Samuel Sumner1668 - 1690
  4. William Sumner1671 - 1690
  5. Ebenezer Sumner1673 - 1721
  6. Edward Sumner1676 - Bef 1763
  7. Joseph Sumner1678/79 - 1734/35
  8. Benjamin Sumner1683 - 1771
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Facts and Events
Name[1][2][3][4][5] George Sumner
Gender Male
Birth? 1634 Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
Alt Birth? 14 Feb 1634
Christening? 1 Mar 1634 Bicester, Oxfordshire, England
Marriage 7 Nov 1662 Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United Statesto Mary Baker
Death[6] 11 Dec 1715 Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States

"Two of George Sumner's sons..."«i»Samuel and William, as well as five other close Sumner relatives, gave their lives in the brave and fruitless but heroic, Expedition against Quebec under "Gen. Benedict Arnold in 1690. Gen. Arnold's journey to Quebec is one of the most famous military marches recorded inhistory. If it had resulted in the capture of that stronghold it would have been celebrated as a great triumph. That it failed, by so little as it did, should not obscure its' fame as a magnificent exploit for sustained courage, undaunted resolution, and uncomplaining endurance of almost incredible hardships, those men who grimly persisted to the end deserved high honor and unstinted praise.... Only 600 of the 1,100 troops who started the march even reached Quebec, and it took them 45 days instead of 20 through terrible winter contions. Much of the time they were cold, sick and without provisions. When they finally reached Quebec, badlyoutnumbered, they had to attack a well-trained, well-equipped and well-entrenched enemy.«/i»" ------("An Emerson-Benson Saga" by Edmund K. Swigart. pages 558-559)

References
  1. ↑ Dorchester Antiquarian and Historical Society. History of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, Second Publisher: Ancestry.com, Second Address: Provo, Utah. (Ebenezer Clapp, Jr., Boston, 1859)
    page 86.
  2. ↑ Genealogy of the Sumner Family.
  3. ↑ Three Generations of the Sumner Family.
  4. ↑ Early Records of Lancaster, Massachusetts.
  5. ↑ Swigart, Edmund K. (Edmund Kearsley), and Richard Andrew Pierce. An Emerson-Benson saga: the ancestry of Charles F. Emerson and Bessie Benson and the struggle to settle the United States : including 194 allied lines : major families: Barrows, Besse, Blanchard, Bloss, Booth, Chittenden, Ford, Freeman, Hafford, Hall, Johnson, Joslyn, Lewis, Lord, Lyman, Merrill, Moulton, Perry, Rogers, Safford, Shaw, Spear, Stevens, Sumner, Woodward and Younglove. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, c1994).
  6. ↑ Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States. Milton Records, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 1662-1843: alphabetically and chronologically arranged. (Boston)
    p.244.

    SUMNER.
    Deacon Georg, [died] Dec. 11, 1715, 81st yr.

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