When Elizabeth Sumner was born on 22 May 1742, in Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, her father, William Sumner, was 43 and her mother, Hannah Hunt, was 39. She married Joseph Taylor in January 1762, in New Hampshire, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 8 daughters. She lived in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut, United States in 1742. She died on 15 March 1803, in Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 60, and was buried in Cornish Center, Cornish, Sullivan, New Hampshire, United States.
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English: occupational name for an official who was responsible for ensuring the appearance of witnesses in court, from Middle English som(p)nour(e) ‘summoner’ (Old French somoneor, semoneor).
History: William Sumner came to Dorchester, MA, from England c. 1635. His descendants include US Senator Charles Sumner, a major force in the struggle to end slavery, who was born in 1811 in Boston.
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