Ancestry of
Benjamin Apthorp Gould

Founder of The Astronomical Journal

Mary Sumner

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• • 2nd Great-grandmother of Benjamin Apthorp Gould — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 29 
  • Father:
  • George Sumner Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Ann Tucker   
  • Birth Date:
  • 2 Nov 1702 
  • Birth Location:
  • Milton, Norfolk, Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Apr 1770 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Samuel Dana
  • Marriage Date:
  • 30 Dec 1731 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Amariah Dana (Ahnentafel No:14 )

• Sources for Mary Sumner

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Pomfret, p. 55, Birth record for son Amariah Dana.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Pomfret, p. 54, Marriage of Samuell Dana and Mary Sumner.
  • ³ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Milton, Vol. 1, p. 56, Birth record for Mary Sumner.
  • ⁴ Appleton, William Sumner, Record of the Descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1879), 6.
  • ⁵ Williams, Alicia Crane, Chase-Wigglesworth Genealogy: The Ancestors and Descendants of Philip Putnam Chase and His Wife . . ., Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc. (1990), 168-170, 398.