Sumption, Thomas

Sumption, Thomas a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, was born in Cecil County, Md., Dec. 5, 1802. He was converted in 1819, licensed as a local preacher in 1828, and in 1838 was received on trial into the Philadelphia Conference. He received a superannuated relation in 1874, and died in Halifax, Dauphin Co., Pa., May 9,1874. See Minutes of Annual Conferences, 1875, p. 40.