Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ry. Mr. Sumner died July 14, 1834. (VI) Samuel Sumner, son of Joseph (5), andLucy (Williams) Sumner, was born at Shrewsbury,September 24, 1765. He was graduated at Dart-mouth College, 1776, and appointed English pre-ceptor of the Leicester Academy, July, 1788. Afterleaving Leicester he studied theology with hisfather, and was ordained over the church and societyat Southboro, June, 1791. In 1797 he was dismissedby letter to St. Albans. Ver
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . ry. Mr. Sumner died July 14, 1834. (VI) Samuel Sumner, son of Joseph (5), andLucy (Williams) Sumner, was born at Shrewsbury,September 24, 1765. He was graduated at Dart-mouth College, 1776, and appointed English pre-ceptor of the Leicester Academy, July, 1788. Afterleaving Leicester he studied theology with hisfather, and was ordained over the church and societyat Southboro, June, 1791. In 1797 he was dismissedby letter to St. Albans. Vermont. He next movedto Bakcrsfield, Vermont, and became pastor. Thepeculiar circumstances under which he was ordainedare thus given: The region of the country aboutBakcrsfield was, in the beginning of the last cen-tury, an almost unbroken wilderness. Indeed, it issaid Mr. Sumners first approach to its wild do-main was by a path designated by blazed trees. Asthe place was so difficult to cross. Dr. Sumner ar-ranged that the ceremonies of installation should beheld in his own church in Shrewsbury, where theywere performed after the approved orthodox man-.
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