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NOTE 1./
Full record for Sumner, Cyrus
Last Name Sumner
First Name Cyrus
Nativity United States
Business Farmer
Year Settled 1823
Post Office London
Township Westminster
County Middlesex
Atlas Date 1878

Concession and Lot Lot size
I, 16 20
II, 2 50

NOTE 2./ 1881 Census Place: Westminster, Middlesex East, Ontario, Canada
Source: FHL Film 1375904 NAC C-13268 Dist 167 SubDist A Div 1 Page 63 Family 302
Sex Marr Age Origin Birthplace
Richard SUMNER M M 38 English O
Occ: Farmer Religion: Church of England
Cornelia SUMNER F M 27 English O
Religion: Church of England
Freddie SUMNER M 7 English O
Religion: Church of England
Nellie SUMNER F 5 English O
Religion: Church of England
Cyrus SUMNER M W 80 English USA
Occ: Farmer Religion: Church of England
Marth Ann MC CULLOCK F W 39 English O
Religion: Church of England

Buried:
Bostwick

Cyrus married Martha FARR in Mar 1823. Martha was born in 1809 in Huntington, Vermont; died on 15 Apr 1865 in Westminster, Middlesex, Ontario; was buried in Westminster East, Westminister, Middlesex, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Buried:
Bostwick

John married Abigail PLUMLEY in 1798. Abigail (daughter of Joseph PLUMLEY and Deborah FIELD) was born about 1777 in Bristol, Addsn, Vt (of Norfolk, Ct); died in Dec 1807. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]

Joseph married Deborah FIELD on 07 Mar 1776. Deborah was born on 13 Mar 1755 in Norfolk, Connecticut; died on 05 Mar 1796. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]