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SUMNER, Jethro, soldier, born in Virginia about 1730; died in Warren county, 'N. C., about 1790. His father, William, came from England and settled near Suffolk, Virginia, about 1690. Jethro was active in the measures that preceded the Revolution, and in 1760 was paymaster of the provincial troops of North Carolina and commander at Fort; Cumberland. In 1776 he was appointed by the Provincial congress colonel of the 3d North Carolina regiment, and served under Washington in the north. He was commissioned brigadier-general by the Continental congress in 1779, was ordered to join General Horatio Gates in the south, and was at the battle of Camden in 1780. He then served under General Nathanael Greene, and at the battle of Eutaw, 8 September, 1781, made a bayonet charge, after which he was active in keeping the Tories in check in North Carolina till the close of the war.
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