Mary Sumner

Disputed relationships and data

Mary Swift was Mary West when she married William Sumner in 1625. Her parents are not known, but her brother was Thomas Swift, of Dorchester. She was not Mary Anstruther, the daughter of Sir Robert Swift & Ursula Swift. She was not the wife of Rt Hon Sir Robert Anstruther or of Mr. West.

Her birth date is seen as circa June 20, 1606 Bicester, Oxfordshire, England without citation. Bicester was where she married. Her brother Thomas’s birth is thought to be about 1605 in Dorchester, Dorset, where he married.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swift-470

[Note: Her origins and parents are unknown See: TAG V. 19: p. 156-166 ] GMv6 p. 598-604: 621-6]

Mary Swift was born about 1606, and was sister to Thomas Swift, husband of Elizabeth Capen, who were married at Dorchester, Dorset, England. [1] [2]. She died on 7 Jun 1676 at about age 69 in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, New England.

Mary West [presumably a widow West] married William Sumner at Bicester, Oxford, England on October 22, 1625. William was baptized at Bicester on January 27, 1604/5, son of Roger and Sumner. [1] [2][3]

Her brother Thomas named William Sumner and John Capen, his brother's in law, as overseers of his will. [1] [2]

She and her husband emigrated to New England c 1635 and settled at Dorchester. William received a land grant there on January 4, 1635/6. On August 23, 1636, William and his wife 'Marie, were admitted to the second church at Dorchester. [1] [2] [4]

Mary died at Dorchester on June 7, 1676. [2] [5]

William died there on December 9, 1688. [2] [5]

In William's will, written on March 1, 1688 and proved on March 1, 1691/2, he divided his estate into six equal parts among his children and grandchildren:

• sons Roger, George, Samuel, Increase
• daughter Joan Way
• children of my son William, being nine of them
• servants Rebecca Adams and Anthony Hancock, 20s each [1] [2]

On October 20, 1695, Increase Sumner was dismissed from the church at Dorchester, Massachusetts, with Mr. Joseph Lord, pastor to form a new church in South Carolina. [4] His brother Samuel and his sister, widow Joan Way, also ventured to South Carolina, with the Dorchester group. [1] [2]

Children

1. Joan, baptized at Bicester on December 7, 1626; married Aaron Way, son of Henry by 1648. [2] She died in Dorchester, South Carolina after 1696. [1]
2. William, baptized at Bicester on May 18, 1628; buried on November 17, 1628. [2]
3. William baptized at Bicester on December 6, 1629; died at Boston in February, 1675; married Elizabeth Clement c 1650. [1] [2]
4. Roger, baptized at Bicester on August 26, 1632; died on May 26, 1698 at Milton, Massachusetts [6]; married Mary Joslin c 1656 at Lancaster, Massachusetts. [7]. [1] [2]
5. George, baptized at Bicester on March 1, 1634/5; died on December 11, 1715, at Milton, Massachusetts [6]; married Mary Baker at Northampton on November 7, 1662. [8] [1] [2]
6. Samuel, born at Dorchester, Massachusetts on May 18, 1638; died at Dorchester, South Carolina after 1698; married Rebecca (Unk) on March 7, 1658/9. [1] [2] [5]
7. Increase born at Dorchester, Massachusetts on February 23, 1642/3; died after 1696 in South Carolina; married Sarah Staples on March 26, 1667. [1] [2] [5]

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References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Swift-470 cites
   1. Holman, Mary Lovering. Three Generations of The Sumner Family in: The American Genealogist, Volume 19, New Haven, Connecticut, 1942-3, p. 156-166 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .)
   2. Anderson, Robert C. Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, NEHGS, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009, p. 598-604: 621-6 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.)
   3. Parish registers for Bicester, 1539-1812. FamilySearch Film # 007906840. Image 84 of 1610; Book No 1:1539-1625: Marriage, 22 Oct 1625 George Somner to Mary West. Digital images: FamilySearch or Ancestry.com sharing
   4. Records of the First Church at Dorchester, in New England, 1636-1734, George H. Ellis, Boston, Massachusetts, 1891 p. 2: 13: 109)
   5. City Document 59: Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, Dorchester Births, Marriages and Deaths, To the End of 1825, Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1890
   6. Milton Records : Births, Marriages and Deaths, 1662-1843, Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, Boston, Massachusetts, 1900
   7. Nourse, Henry, editor. The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts 1643-1850, Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1890
   8. Northampton, Vol. 1 p. 1411 in: Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1621-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016).
2. Extracts from the Register of Bicester, Oxfordshire, England. https://www.wikitree.com/photo.php/7/7e/Sumner-348.jpg Marriages. 1625, October 25. William Somner & Mary West.
3. http://gw.geneanet.org/tdowling?lang=en&p=mary&n=swift has errors
4. William Sumner Appleton, Record of the Descendants of William Sumner of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1636 (Boston, Massachusetts: David Clapp & Son, 1879), digitized by FamilySearch.org. < Catalog Entry >