Martha, daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Lovett) Sumner, was born in Mendon, MA on August 27, 1910. She married Obadiah Wheelock there on October 26, 1733. Martha and Obadiah resided in Mendon where they had eight children. They removed to Lancaster, MA where Martha died on May 12, 1802.
Sources
Thomas W. Baldwin, A.B., S.B., comp., Vital Records of Mendon Massachusetts, to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1920), p. 167 (birth); 393 (marriage)
Henry S. Nourse, A.M., ed., The Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Church Records and Epitaphs of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1643-1850, (Clinton: W. J. Coulter, Printer, 1890), p. 194 (death)
Sullivan, Rick. "Martha Sumner" on Wheelock Genealogy website.
Appleton, William S. Record of the Descendants of William Sumner, of Dorchester, Mass., 1636. Boston: D. Clapp & Son, 1879.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Martha by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Martha: