Nathaniel Sumner (April 10, 1720-December 23, 1802) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
[1] They had seven children: George, Hannah, Mary, Ebenezer, Nathiel, and William.
[1] The family lived in the South Parish, in what is today Norwood.
[3] In 1768, Sumner and Richard Woodward were Dedham's delegates to the Massachusetts Convention of Towns, an extralegal assembly held in Boston in response to the news that British troops would soon be arriving to crack down on anti-British rioting.
[4][5] The pair were also among Dedham's delegates to the convention that adopted the Suffolk Resolves.