Person:William Sumpter (1)

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From Rootsweb Message Board:

A William Sumpter's will was filed in Louisa Co, VA in 1752 in which two sons, William and John and wife Elizabeth are listed. A William Sumpter is named executor. The widow was a well-known mid-wife in the area and supposedly lived to 111 years of age. In the the book "The Gamecock" by Bass, the story is told that the General visited his mother and sister when on his way to Congress. According to Gregorie, there were brothers William and John and a nephew John who served with the General at Stateburg. And sisters Patience is apparently well documented; she married first Franklin and later Suddarth. Tradition says there was another sister named Anne who married a man named Lan - possibly the wife of Thomas Land.

[Source: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SUMPTER/1997-08/0871521682]

1. ↑ William Sumter, in England. Births and Christenings, 1538-1975. (FamilySearch, Ancestry.com, Findmypast).

   christened 31 Jul 1692 in London St Dunstan in the West, Middlesex, England
   parents: Edmun and Marey Sumter

   FamilySearch Family Tree identifies this William Sumter with the immigrant to Virginia. While hard evidence is not available, the reasoning for this is explained in the contribution of Scott Parkay on the Collaborate tab, titled "William's parents - NOT from Histon, Cambridgeshire".

2.   L7GZ-9JM (FamilySearch Family Tree), in FamilySearch Family Tree.
3.   Gregorie, Anne King. Thomas Sumter. (Columbia, South Carolina, 1931)
   p. 4.

   This author mentions the 1752 will but doesn't associate it with this William Sumter (who she says, on page 3, "died early and apparently left no record"). She says the will might possibly have been that of his son William, and speculates about yet another William Sumter who moved to Burke County, North Carolina. The chronology doesn't appear to work for this, and Find A Grave memorial #248741824 quotes letters and interviews suggesting that the son William (born in 1731) is the one who moved to Burke County.