Charles Pinckney Sumner
(1776–1839)
BIRTH
January 20, 1776
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Milton, Massachusetts Bay, British America
NAME
Job Sumner
DEATH
April 24, 1839
PLACE
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Relief Jacob
(1785–1866)
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Charles Pinckney Sumner was a Boston lawyer, abolitionist and sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He was father of U.S. senator Charles Sumner and married Relief Jacob in 1810.
EARLY LIFE
He practiced law in Boston, advocated abolition, and served as sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts.
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DEATH
Born Job Sumner in Milton in 1776, he was renamed Charles Pinckney Sumner by his father. He became a Boston lawyer and served as Suffolk County sheriff from 1825 until shortly before his death on April 24, 1839. He and Relief Jacob had nine children, including the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner.
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