Ancestry of
Sumner Sewall

58th Governor of Maine

Joseph Sumner

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• • 2nd Great-grandfather of Sumner Sewall — 5th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 24 
  • Father:
  • Samuel Sumner 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Griffin   
  • Birth Date:
  • 19 Jan 1740 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 Dec 1824 
  • Death Location:
  • Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Lucy Williams
  • Marriage Date:
  • 12 May 1763 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Erastus Sumner (Ahnentafel No:12 )

• Sources for Joseph Sumner

  • ¹ Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850, Shrewsbury, Vol. 1, pp. 100-101, Birth records for children of Rev Joseph and Lucy Sumner.
  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1854, Vol. 8, pp. 128L, 128n.
  • ³ Appleton, William Sumner, Record of the Descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1879), 12, 27-28.
  • ⁴ Ward, Andrew H., History of the Town of Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, from Its Settlement in 1717 to 1829 . . ., Boston: Samuel G. Drake (1847), 439.