Sarah Sumner

Biography

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Sarah Hope (Staples) Sumner was born in 1645 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, daughter of John Staple (<1608 - 1683) and Rebecca (Unknown) Staples (~1610 - ~1681).

Her siblings were:

• Abraham Staples (1638 - 1703)
• Rebecca (Staples) Sumner (1639 - 1696)
• Joseph Staples (1641 - ~1693)
• John Staples (~1648 - 1692)

Sarah married Increase Sumner (1642 - 1725) on 1 Jan 1667 in Dorchester.[1][2]

Their children were:

1. Increase Sumner (1667 - 1683)
2. Sarah Sumner (1669 - )
3. William Sumner (1670 - 1690)
4. Sarah Sumner (1672 - 1683)
5. Joseph Sumner (1674 - 1710)
6. Benjamin Sumner (1676 - 1707)
7. Thankful Sumner (1678 - 1723)
8. Roger Sumner (1680 - 1725)
9. Rebecca (Sumner) Norman (1682 - >1720)
10. Samuel Sumner (1684 - 1723)
11. Mehitable Sumner (1686 - ).

Increase Sumner was Freeman of Dorchester in 1678, and then selectman in 1693, and Constable in 1694. He went with Rev. Joseph Lord and a few others to form the settlement of Dorchester, South Carolina. He was made a deacon of the Church of Christ that he and Peter O'Kelly founded in Dorchester, South Carolina.

In 1696 he moved to Dorchester, South Carolina, taking most of his children.

“Nov 1, 1696, Dea Sumner’s wife and familiy, and his borhter Samuel with his wife and familyi, with Peter OKelley’s wife and six children, dismissed to the Church of Chriswt neaar Newington in South Carolina (since called Dorchester),” Church Records Dorchester Mass. [NEHGR 8:128d]

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References

1. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Staples-905
2. City Document #59 Page 22 of Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825 < GoogleBooks > Increase Sumner, son of William, married by Captain Clap.
3. American Marriages Before 1699.
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 > Page 3. < GoogleBooks >