Sullivan, John (1740-1795)

Name:

Sullivan, John (1740-1795)

Title:

Major General in the Continental Army
First President (Governor) of New Hampshire, 1786-7, 1789
Judge, District Court of New Hampshire, 1789-1795

Born:

02/17/1740

Birthplace:

Somersworth, NH

Died:

01/23/1795

Death Location:

Durham, NH

Residence:

Somersworth, NH 1740-
Berwick, ME -1763
Durham, NH 1763-1795

Nationality:

American

Father:

Sullivan, John

Mother:

Browne, Margery

Relations:

Sibling: James Sullivan (Governor of MA)

Spouse:

Married Lydia Worster (1738-1820), 1760

Children:

Sullivan, Margery (1761-1764)
Sullivan, Lydia (1763-18_2; m. Jonathan Steele; he was a judge of the N.H. Supreme Court; 8 children)
Sullivan, John (1767-1819; unmarried; d. Baton Rouge, LA)
Sullivan, James (1769-; unmarried; d. Georgetown, SC)
Sullivan, George (1771-1838; N.H. Attorney General; m1. Clarissa Lamson; m2. Philippa Call; 11 children with first wife, none with second)
Sullivan, Margery (1775-1777)

Notes:

M. Lydia Worcester (1738-1820) 1760, dau. of Lydia Remick and John Worcester of Berwick and Lebanon, ME
SEE ALSO (spouse): Sullivan, Lydia
SEE ALSO (son): Sullivan, John (2)
SEE ALSO (son): Sullivan, George
SEE ALSO (daughter-in-law): Sullivan, Clarissa
SEE ALSO (grandson): Sullivan, John (3)
SEE ALSO (great-grandson): Sullivan, John (4)

Recieved commission as Major General in Continental Army.
Conducted operations from Pennsylvania, North.
Outmaneuvered by British at Battle of Long Island, Battle of Brandywine.
Success in 1777 at Germantown, Penn.
Successful counter campaign in upper New York in 1779.
Returned to politics after the war.

Materials for a History of the Family of John Sullivan of Berwick, New England, and of the O'Sullivans of Ardea, Ireland... (Cambridge, England: John Wilson and Son, 1893), 150-151.

John Scales, "Master John Sullivan of Somersworth and Berwick and His Family," Proceedings of the New Haampshire Historical Society. Volume II. Part II. (Junje 1902), 180-201.

Everett S. Stackpole, Old Kittery and Her Families. (Lewiston, Maine: Lewiston Journal Company, 1903), 806-807.