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- 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.
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1731 - 1795 (63 years)
