Plumer, William (1759-1850)

Name:

Plumer, William (1759-1850)

Title:

Member, Federalist Party
Member, Democratic-Republican Party
Selectman, Town of Epping
Member, New Hampshire House of Representatives 1785-1786, 1788, 1790-1791, 1797-1800
Speaker, New Hamphire House of Representatives 1791, 1797; Member, New Hampshire State Constitutional Conventions 1791, 1792
United States Senate 1802-1807
Member, New Hampshire State Senate 1810-1811
Governor, State of New Hampshire 1812-1813, 1816-1819
Presidential Elector, Democratic-Republican Party 1820
Founder and 1st President, New Hampshire Historical Society

Born:

06/25/1759

Birthplace:

Newbury, MA

Died:

12/22/1850

Death Location:

Epping, NH

Residence:

Newbury, MA 1759-1768
Epping, NH, 1768-1850

Nationality:

American

Occupation:

Attorney
Lay Preacher, Baptist Church

Father:

Plumer, Samuel

Mother:

Dole, Mary

Relations:

Siblings:
Plumer, Rebecca (1761-1841; not married)
Plumer, Mary (1763-1834; not married)
Plumer, Samuel (1767-; married Betsey Cilley and lived in Epping, NH; 7 children)
Plumer, Daniel (twin 1770-)
Plumer, Hannah (twin 1770-1850; b. Epping NH; m. Col. Daniel Cilley, brother of Betsey Cilley; res. Epsom NH; children)

Spouse:

Sarah Fowler (Sally) (1762-1852), February 12, 1788

Children:

William, born February 9, 1789, died September 18, 1854
Sally, born November 17, 1790; died September 18, 1818
Samuel, born December 19, 1792; died Msy 2, 1868
George Washington, born February 4, 1796; m. Betsey Plumer, first cousin
John Jay, born December 26, 1799; died May 2, 1849
Quintus, born May 5, 1805; died May 29, 1805

Notes:

William Plumer, William Plumer's Memorandum of Proceedings in the United States Senate, 1803-1807. Edited by Everett Brown. 1923. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.

Matthew A. Stickney, The Fowler Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of Philip and Mary Fowler, of Ipswich, Mass. Ten Generations: 1500-1882. (Salem, Massachusetts: Salem Press, 1883), 131-136.

Lynn W. Turner, William Plumer of New Hampshire 1759-1850. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., 1962.