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Elizabeth Hyslop

BIRTH

1757

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay

DEATH

December 28, 1810

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

FAMILY

FATHER:

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William Hyslop

(?-1796)

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Hyslop, Elizabeth

(1757-1810)

Elizabeth Hyslop (1757-1810) was a member of a prominent Revolutionary-era family and the spouse of Increase Sumner. Increase Sumner was a public official, lawyer, and judge whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Elizabeth Hyslop to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Surviving documentation is strongest in genealogical, family, estate, and marriage records rather than in a separate public biography. Including Elizabeth Hyslop in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.

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HUSBAND

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Increase Sumner

(1746-1799)

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Mehetable Stoddard Sumner

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Elizabeth Gerard

(1640-1716)

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William H. Sumner

(1780-1861)

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DIED:

Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

Dec 28, 1810

The exact date and place of Elizabeth Hyslop’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.

No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Hyslop is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.

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