Sarah married John W. LEE on 27 Sep 1859. John was born in 1837; died in 1907 in Middlesex, Ontario; was buried in Bostwick Cemetery in Middlesex Co., Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Cyrus and his wife Rebecca were buried in Woodland Cemetery in London, Ontario. Cyrus was a farmer and came to Westminister Township in 1819. He purchased 200 acres of Lot 19 in Con. 2 in 1835 which was originally patented to Ira Wooden from the Crown in 1825. His wife Rebecca was a cousin. Lot 19 was standing bush and Cyrus used the lumber to frame a 7-bedroom house, facing on Commissioners Road and a barn. In the clearing he grew grain and pastured his cattle. Commissioners Road had been built to facilitate east and west traffic through Westminister Township. The large house Cyrus built was frequently an over-night stop for travellers who received supper, sleeping accommodations, breafkast, and feed and water for their horses.

By 1854, the London and Port Stanley Railway was buying land for the right-of-way and two and a half acres of the west half of Lot 19 were sold to the railway company. Having done this, a problem arose, because Cyrus could no longer get to that part of his property beyond the right of way, so in 1879 he sold to his neighbor on Con. 2, Elliot Grieve, eleven acres from the part south of the tracks. He later recovered some of this acreage with purchases in 1880 of ten acres and an additional five acres in 1885, from William E. Grieve on the east side of the tracks. Cyrus was an innovative farmer. The windmill which was mounted on top of his barn drew water from the dug well a hundred feet away to the barn using a jerk-line. He also installed a geared shaft that operated the root-pulper, for animal feed. Cement that was needed for building or for repairs was mixed by windmill power, but the men had to haul the gravel from the Themes River at the Meadow Lily Bridge with a team and wagon. (Century Farms of Westminister Township by Marguerite E. Murray).
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NOTE 3./ 1851 CENSUS WESTMINSTER TOWNSHIP MIDDLESEX COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA
AS OF 11 JANUARY 1852; AGE IS NEXT BIRTHDAY

NAMES BORN RELIGION AGE Lived Con & Lot REMARKS

Cyrus W. Sumner Upper Canada Protestant 49 Con 1 Lot 19 Farmer
Rebecca Sumner USA Protestant 52
Ralph B. Sumner Upper Canada Protestant 15
Sarah M. Sumner Upper Canada Protestant 13
William C. Sumner Upper Canada Protestant 10


Birth:
Blenheim, (Oxford

Cyrus married Rebecca SUMNER on 16 Feb 1835 in Middlesex, Ontario. Rebecca (daughter of William Augustus SUMNER and Elizabeth BEARDSLEE) was born on 11 May 1799 in Bristol, Addison, Vermont; died on 28 Sep 1873 in Westminster Township, Middlesex County, Ontario; was buried in Woodland Cemetery, Middlesex, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William2 married Patience JOHNSON on 04 Feb 1793. Patience was born in in Keene, Cheshire, New Hampshire; died on 01 Jul 1851 in Esquising Township, Halton County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ 1851 CENSUS WESTMINSTER TOWNSHIP ; MIDDLESEX COUNTY, ONTARIO, CANADA
AS OF 11 JANUARY 1852 : AGE IS NEXT BIRTHDAY

NAMES BORN RELIG AGE Lived Con & Lot REMARKS
SUMNER
William A. USA O 38 Con 1 Lot 15 Farmer
Jane USA O 27
Mary UC O 9
Eliza A. UC O 7
Drucilla UC O 3
Male UC O 1
William A. USA U 88 Widower
HART
Ann (Widow) UC O 57 In Sumner Hsld
Ashley (Male) UC O 33 ? Con 1 Lot 15 Farmer:Single

William married Elizabeth BEARDSLEE in 1791 in Greenwich, New Brunswick. Elizabeth was born about 1768 in Greenwich, New Brunswick; died on 17 Oct 1847 in Westminster, Middlesex, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Ordained in Keene 11 Jun 1761. Served until 30 April 1772. Clement Sumner was the first settled gospel minister of [Keene] (April 27, 1761). A committee was voted 12 pounds, lawful money of the Mass. Bay, for the trouble and charge in providing for the counsel at Mr Sumner's ordination; also five pounds for paying Mr Sumner for five weeks' preaching before his settlement. It was voted by the town this year that 'the Reverend Mr Sumners' salary be stated on commodities as they be now, and so from year to year. Commodities stated as they be now: Wheat at 3s 2 1/2 d sterling per bushel; pork at 3d per pound; beef at 2d per pound; Indian corn at 2s 2d per bushel; rye at 2s 6d per bushel; labour in the summer at 2s per day." This was afterwards recorded upon the suggestion of Mr Sumner that the article of beef was stated above the market price.from "A History of the Town of Keene [1732-1874] by S G Griffin, 1904: "March 26, 1761...it was 'Voted to add Ten Pounds Sterling money of Great Brittain to the Worthy Mr Clement Sumner to the sum that was voted to him Feb ye Sixteenth last past and also a Sixty fourth Part of this Township as mentioned in Our Royal Charter to the First Setled Gospel Minister Provided he shall settle among us." Forom this it appears that Mr Sumner had been called at a previous meeting in February and "His salary was fixed at thirty-five pounds sterling and his firewood, with an annual increase of one pound ten shillings sterling, until fifteen pounds should be added." (Annals, page 35) April 15, 1761, the town "Voted Ten Pounds Sterling Money of Great Brittain to be added to Mr Clement Sumners Sallary and the Whole Sallary to be stated on Commodities as they be now ..." "Mr Sumner accepted the call in a letter dated April 27, which is recorded in the town books, page 23, old records; and he was ordained on the 11th of June. The church was reorganized at that time, with fourteen male members--having been without a pastor for a year and eight months--and two years later Dr Obadiah Blake was chosen one of the deacons... "23 Feb 1760: "Voted onthe 5th article that the Lots of Land Laid out to the Revd Mr Clement Sumner by a Contee Chosen for that Purpose be Recorded and made sure to him--viz house lots No 28-29 eight acre Lot of Meadow Land (54) Thirty acre Lot (50)Ten acre Lot of Meadow Land (23) a Hundred acre Lot to House Lot (29) also a five acre Lot of Meadow to the same House Lot." 1769 "This meeting 'Voted to Raise the Sum of Sixty Three Pounds Six Shillings and Eaight Pence Lawfull money For the Revd mr Sumners Sallary the Present year--Voted the Sum of Ten Pounds Lawfull money for Procureing Mr Sumner's Firewood: and each Person to have Liberty to Pay his Propotion of the above Sum in Good Marchantable Firewood at Five Shillings pr cord to be Deliv'd at Mr Sumners Door at or Before the First Day of February Next; or in defaultr thereof the money was to be collected." "Return of the names of the Persons found guilty of missdemeanors against the States by a Special Session held at Keen June 1777 as pr minutes on file with the sum fined & order thereon ...Revd Clement Sumner 40s..." "CLEMENT SUMNER Rev. Clement Sumner came from Cheshire, Ct.; graduated at Yale in 1758; was ordained at Keene, June 11, 1761. Before coming to Keene he had married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Samuel Gilbert of Hebron, Ct., the principal proprietor of the township of Gilsum, NH, though never a rewsident there. Their children: (see chart). "He remained pastor here for eleven years, and eighty-four memberswere added tothe church during that time. The misconduct of his children, as was said, having caused some dissatisfaction, he was dismissed at his own request in 1772; but he spent his life in Keene, an excellent citizen, and a man of liveral views, for those times. He preached for a time at Thetford, Vt., and occasionallly at other places, but was never settled again. In August 1763, he was chosen proprietors' clerk of Gilsum--put down as "Mr Sumner of Keen." He died in Keene in 1795, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and was buried in the old south yard. His widow died many years later, at JWest Swanzey. His sons settled in Keene and had children whose births were recorded in the town books."!per History of Tolland County: "Rev Clement graduated at Yale in 1758.He married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Gilbert of Hebron, and moved to New Hampshire."!per "Historical Sketches of the Coos Country" by Rev Grant Powers 1880:

Thetford did not settle a minister until the summer of 1773, when a man by the name of Clement Sumner was installed their pastor. We know not the place of his nativity. He graduated at Yale College in 1758, settled in Keene, NH, June 11, 1761, and was dismissed, April 30, 1772. He remained in Thetford but little more than two years. He became a tory, left them without asking for a dismission, and went to Swanzey, NH, where he became a Universalist preacher, and continued in that persuasion until his death. He was the source of much trouble ot the town of Thetford. He took from them a fine right of land which fell to him by settlement, and divided the church and town. Wallace says, 'He was no more fit to preach than a fox is to make a gold watch.' We do not learn that there was ever any lack of fellowship between him and his Universalist brethren at Swanzey.
NOTE 1./ Ordained in Keene 11 Jun 1761. Served until 30 April 1772. Clement Sumner was the first settled gospel minister of [Keene] (April 27, 1761). A committee was voted 12 pounds, lawful money of the Mass. Bay, for the trouble and charge in providing for the counsel at Mr Sumner's ordination; also five pounds for paying Mr Sumner for five weeks' preaching before his settlement. It was voted by the town this year that 'the Reverend Mr Sumners' salary be stated on commodities as they be now, and so from year to year. Commodities stated as they be now: Wheat at 3s 2 1/2 d sterling per bushel; pork at 3d per pound; beef at 2d per pound; Indian corn at 2s 2d per bushel; rye at 2s 6d per bushel; labour in the summer at 2s per day." This was afterwards recorded upon the suggestion of Mr Sumner that the article of beef was stated above the market price.from "A History of the Town of Keene [1732-1874] by S G Griffin, 1904: "March 26, 1761...it was 'Voted to add Ten Pounds Sterling money of Great Brittain to the Worthy Mr Clement Sumner to the sum that was voted to him Feb ye Sixteenth last past and also a Sixty fourth Part of this Township as mentioned in Our Royal Charter to the First Setled Gospel Minister Provided he shall settle among us." Forom this it appears that Mr Sumner had been called at a previous meeting in February and "His salary was fixed at thirty-five pounds sterling and his firewood, with an annual increase of one pound ten shillings sterling, until fifteen pounds should be added." (Annals, page 35) April 15, 1761, the town "Voted Ten Pounds Sterling Money of Great Brittain to be added to Mr Clement Sumners Sallary and the Whole Sallary to be stated on Commodities as they be now ..." "Mr Sumner accepted the call in a letter dated April 27, which is recorded in the town books, page 23, old records; and he was ordained on the 11th of June. The church was reorganized at that time, with fourteen male members--having been without a pastor for a year and eight months--and two years later Dr Obadiah Blake was chosen one of the deacons... "23 Feb 1760: "Voted onthe 5th article that the Lots of Land Laid out to the Revd Mr Clement Sumner by a Contee Chosen for that Purpose be Recorded and made sure to him--viz house lots No 28-29 eight acre Lot of Meadow Land (54) Thirty acre Lot (50)Ten acre Lot of Meadow Land (23) a Hundred acre Lot to House Lot (29) also a five acre Lot of Meadow to the same House Lot." 1769 "This meeting 'Voted to Raise the Sum of Sixty Three Pounds Six Shillings and Eaight Pence Lawfull money For the Revd mr Sumners Sallary the Present year--Voted the Sum of Ten Pounds Lawfull money for Procureing Mr Sumner's Firewood: and each Person to have Liberty to Pay his Propotion of the above Sum in Good Marchantable Firewood at Five Shillings pr cord to be Deliv'd at Mr Sumners Door at or Before the First Day of February Next; or in defaultr thereof the money was to be collected." "Return of the names of the Persons found guilty of missdemeanors against the States by a Special Session held at Keen June 1777 as pr minutes on file with the sum fined & order thereon ...Revd Clement Sumner 40s..." "CLEMENT SUMNER Rev. Clement Sumner came from Cheshire, Ct.; graduated at Yale in 1758; was ordained at Keene, June 11, 1761. Before coming to Keene he had married Elizabeth, daughter of Capt. Samuel Gilbert of Hebron, Ct., the principal proprietor of the township of Gilsum, NH, though never a rewsident there. Their children: (see chart). "He remained pastor here for eleven years, and eighty-four memberswere added tothe church during that time. The misconduct of his children, as was said, having caused some dissatisfaction, he was dismissed at his own request in 1772; but he spent his life in Keene, an excellent citizen, and a man of liveral views, for those times. He preached for a time at Thetford, Vt., and occasionallly at other places, but was never settled again. In August 1763, he was chosen proprietors' clerk of Gilsum--put down as "Mr Sumner of Keen." He died in Keene in 1795, in the sixty-fourth year of his age, and was buried in the old south yard. His widow died many years later, at JWest Swanzey. His sons settled in Keene and had children whose births were recorded in the town books."!per History of Tolland County: "Rev Clement graduated at Yale in 1758.He married Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Gilbert of Hebron, and moved to New Hampshire."!per "Historical Sketches of the Coos Country" by Rev Grant Powers 1880:
Thetford did not settle a minister until the summer of 1773, when a man
by the name of Clement Sumner was installed their pastor. We know not
the place of his nativity. He graduated at Yale College in 1758, settled
in Keene, NH, June 11, 1761, and was dismissed, April 30, 1772. He
remained in Thetford but little more than two years. He became a tory,
left them without asking for a dismission, and went to Swanzey, NH,
where he became a Universalist preacher, and continued in that
persuasion until his death. He was the source of much trouble ot the
town of Thetford. He took from them a fine right of land which fell to
him by settlement, and divided the church and town. Wallace says, 'He
was no more fit to preach than a fox is to make a gold watch.' We do not
learn that there was ever any lack of fellowship between him and his
Universalist brethren at Swanzey.

Rev married Elizabeth GILBERT. Elizabeth was born on 19 Aug 1736 in Hebron, Tolland, Connecticut; died in in West Swansey, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

NOTE 1./ Historical Note: The Year Was 1789

The year was 1789 and in the U.S. a young government was beginning to take shape. In its first nationwide election, the popular Revolutionary War general, George Washington, became the country's first president and was sworn in at the first capitol of the United States, Federal Hall in New York City.

In France, a rebellion was underway and with the storming of the Bastille prison, the French Revolution began. In its reporting on the subject, The Times of London, England had the following to say of the conflict:

The spirit of liberty which so long lay in a state of death, oppressed by the hand of power, received its first spark of returning animation, by the incautious and impolitic assistance afforded to America. The French soldier on his return from that emancipated continent, told a glorious tale to his countrymen--"That the arms of France had given freedome to thirteen United States, and planted the standard of liberty on the battlements of New York and Philadelphia." The idea of such a noble deed became a general object of admiration, the [facets?] of a similar state were eagerly longed for by all ranks of people, and the vox populi had this force of argument--"If France gave freedom to America, why should she not unchain the arbitrary fetters which bind her own people.

Later that year, the Marquis de Lafayette, with the advice of Thomas Jefferson who was at the time the American ambassador to France, drafted the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. It was adopted by France's National Assembly in August and ratified by Louis XVI in October.

There was unrest in other parts of the world as well. Sweden and Russia were at war, and briefly, Norway had joined the conflict, although a peace treaty was signed in July 1789.

In a smaller, but well-known conflict, the mutiny on the H.M.S. Bounty was also in the year 1789. On April 28, part of the crew of the Bounty, led by Fletcher Christian, mutinied and set Captain William Bligh and eighteen crewmembers adrift. Bligh managed to get the boat some 3,600 miles to Timor. Some of the mutineers were captured and prosecuted--three were hanged, while others, including Fletcher Christian ended up on Pitcairn Island, where some of their descendants live to this day.

In 1789, there was an epidemic of influenza in New England, New York, and Nova Scotia, which resulted in many deaths due to secondary cases of pneumonia. The new president was among those who fell ill. He caught a cold while visiting Boston, and later, was affected more seriously with influenza, which was dubbed Washington Influenza.

RS married Rebecca DOWNER on 07 Jun 1761 in Hebron, Tolland, Vermont. Rebecca was born on 04 Feb 1739 in Sunderland, Massachusetts; died about 1783 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]