James Monroe Sumner Family Bible Records

              1st

  Genealogy of Sumner family.
copied from an old family Bible
belonging to James Monroe Sumner
the Bible was bought in 1739.
by Jas Sumner, father of Luke Sumner-
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My Dear Father James Sumner
was born on Teusday[sic] the 11th day
of April in the year of our Lord
Christ 1699. And departed this 
life on the 8th of April, 1750.
		Luke Sumner
My Dear mother departed this
life on the 27th of July. 1757, her
name was Mary.
	~  ~   Luke Sumner.
Luke Sumner son of James
Sumner & Mary, his wife, was
born 22nd Sept in the year of our 
Lord 1722.
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James Sumner son of
James Sumner & Mary his
wife, was born Jan 15th 172[?]
~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~  ~   1725
Esther, daughter of James
Sumner & Mary, his wife, was
born April 25th 1727.
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Seth Sumner son of James
Sumner & Mary his wife was
born November 12, 1729.
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David, son of James Sumner
& Mary his wife, was born 18th
February, 1731.
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