Ancestry of
Bill Weld

68th Governor of Massachusetts

Benjamin Sumner

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• • 4th Great-grandfather of Bill Weld — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 68 
  • Father:
  • William Sumner 
  • Mother:
  • Hannah Hunt   
  • Birth Date:
  • 5 Feb 1737 
  • Birth Location:
  • Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 9 May 1815 
  • Death Location:
  • Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Union Cemetery, Claremont, Sullivan, New Hampshire 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Prudence Hubbard
  • Marriage Date:
  • 20 May 1758 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Hebor, Tolland, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Frederick Augustus Sumner (Ahnentafel No:34 )

• Sources for Benjamin Sumner

  • ¹ Connecticut Marriages, 1640-1939, Marriage record for Benjamin Sumner and Prudence Hubbard.
  • ² Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/28/2018).
  • ³ New Hampshire: Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1654-1969, Births S to 1901, p. 39453, Birth record for son Frederick Augustus Sumner.
  • ⁴ Appleton, William Sumner, Record of the Descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636, Boston: David Clapp and Son, Printers (1879), 8, 19.
  • ⁵ Saunderson, Rev. Henry H., History of Charlestown, New Hampshire: The Old No. 4, Embracing the Part Borne by Its Inhabitants in the . . ., Claremont, New Hampshire: The Claremont Manufacturing Company (1875), 575.

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