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John Sumner

SUMNER, John, soldier, born in Middletown, Connecticut, in May, 1735; died in February, 1787. He was commissioned, 24 March, 1760, captain in the regiment of foot of which Phineas Lyman was colonel, and in this service he was in the battles of Lake George and Ticonderoga, and at the capture of Crown Point and the surrender of Montreal. At the opening of the Revolution he was a zealous patriot, and he entered the Colonial army in June, 1776, being commissioned major in a battalion of which John Durkee was colonel, and continued in the service until I January, 1781. He was in the battles of Long Island, Harlem, White Plains, Germantown, Trenton, and Monmouth, where he was in the thickest of the fight and one of many that were overcome by their exertions in the great heat of that day, from the effects of which he never recovered. He was one of the founders of the Society of the Cincinnati.-H is son, Joshua, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 11 October, 1761; died after 1831, was a surgeon in the army of General St. Clair during his unfortunate expedition against the Miami Indians in 1791, and subsequently in his native state and in Massachusetts. -Another son, William, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 22 January, 1780; died 28 September, 1838. was colonel of an Ohio regiment in the war of 1812, and camped his command in the forest on the site of Columbus, the capital of the state.

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