. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Hyslop. soldier, b. in Roxbury, 4 July,1780; d. in Jamaica Plains, Mass., 24 Oct., 1861,was graduated at Harvard in 1799. admitted to thebar in 1802, and in 1808-19 was a member of thelegislature. In 1814 he was sent to put the coastof Maine in a state of defence against a threatenedinvasion, and in 1818-35 he served as adjutant-general of the state, with the rank of brigadier-general. He organized in 1833 the East Bostoncompany. He was one of the original membersof the Massachusetts horticultural society. Hisworks include An Inquiry into the Im
. Appleton's cyclopaedia of American biography . Hyslop. soldier, b. in Roxbury, 4 July,1780; d. in Jamaica Plains, Mass., 24 Oct., 1861,was graduated at Harvard in 1799. admitted to thebar in 1802, and in 1808-19 was a member of thelegislature. In 1814 he was sent to put the coastof Maine in a state of defence against a threatenedinvasion, and in 1818-35 he served as adjutant-general of the state, with the rank of brigadier-general. He organized in 1833 the East Bostoncompany. He was one of the original membersof the Massachusetts horticultural society. Hisworks include An Inquiry into the Importance ofthe Militia (Boston, 1823): Observations on Na-tional Defence (1824); Reminiscences (1854): Memoir of Increase Sumner, Governor of Mas-sachusetts (1854); Reminiscences of GeneralWarren and Bunker Hill (1858); History ofEast Boston (1858); and Reminiscences of La-fayettes Visit to Boston (1859). SUMNER. Jethro. soldier,b. in Virginia about17::o ; d. in Warren county, N. about 1790. Hisfather, William, came from England and settled. near Suffolk, Va., about 1690. Jethro was activein the measures that preceded the Revolution, andin 1760 was paymaster of the provincial troops ofXorth Carolina and commander at Fort tuinbrr-land. In 1770 he was appointed by the Provincialcongress colonel of the 3d North Carolina regi-ment, and served under Washington in the was commissioned brigadier-general by theContinental congress in 1779, was ordered to joinGen. Horatio Gates in the south, and was at thebattle of Camden in 1780. He then served underGen. Nathanael Greene, and at the battle of Entaw,8 Sept., 1781, made a bayonet charge, after whiehhe was active in keeping the Tories in check inNorth Carolina till the close of the war. SUMNER. John, soldier, b. in Middletown,Conn., in May, 1735; d. in February, 1787. Hewas commissioned, 24 March, 1760, captain in theregiment of foot of which Phineas Lyman wascolonel, and in this service he was in the battles ofLake George an
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