Increase Sumner
BIRTH
Nov 27, 1746
Roxbury, Massachusetts
DEATH
June 7, 1799
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1797-1799
FAMILY
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Sumner, Increase
(1746-1799)
Increase Sumner was a Massachusetts lawyer, legislator, and judge who entered public service during the Revolution. He helped administer the new state government and later served as governor of Massachusetts from 1797 until his death.
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WIFE
Elizabeth Hyslop
(1757-1810)
Mehetable Stoddard Sumner
Elizabeth Gerard
(1640-1716)
William H. Sumner
(1780-1861)
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DIED:
Roxbury, Massachusetts
Jun 7, 1799
Increase Sumner was born on Nov 27, 1746 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Increase Sumner with work or public activity as a lawyer, judge, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Increase Sumner died on Jun 7, 1799 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.