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Sumner Gary Hunnewell, Jr. was born in Portland, Maine, to Sumner Gary Hunnewell and Shirley Ann Mayo. He is married to the former Sylvia Beatrice Richardson and together they have two children Sumner Tristan Hunnewell and Rachel Elanor Hunnewell. 

Sumner and his wife are members of St. John’s Lutheran Church (LCMS) in Arnold, Missouri.

He has a B.S. Mathematics/Computer Science from Central Missouri State University and a Master’s degree in Telecommunication Management from Washington University in St. Louis. He is retired from software support, development, and project management for Southwestern Bell/SBC/AT&T.

Memberships

  • Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

  • Ancient Heraldic and Chivalric Order of Albion

  • Welsh Society of Philadelphia

  • St. Andrew's Society of Washington, D. C.

  • St. George's Society of New York

  • Society of the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick of Philadelphia

  • Society of the Sons of Saint George of Philadelphia

  • Society of the Cincinnati [New Hampshire]

  • Veteran Corps of Artillery State of New York

  • Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland

  • Military Society of the War of 1812

  • Aztec Club of 1847

  • General Society of the War of 1812 (Deputy President General)

  • Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (Council-in-Chief)

  • General Society Sons of the Revolution (past State President)

  • Centennial Legion of Historic Military Commands

  • Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (Past Department Commander)

  • Huguenot Society of America

  • South Carolina Huguenot Society

  • National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (past Chapter Vice President)

  • General Society of Colonial Wars (Deputy Governor General)

  • Military Order of Foreign Wars of the United States

  • Colonial Society of Pennsylvania

  • Order of Indian Wars of the United States

  • Order of the Founders and Patriots of America (Asst. Secretary General)

  • Society of the Second War with Great Britain in the State of New York

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Deputy Governor General)

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta (Surety, Class of 2028)

  • Wing Family of America, Inc.

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry (Auditor General)

  • Sons of Veterans Reserve

  • John Libby Family Association

  • Piscataqua Pioneers

  • Stetson Kindred of America, Inc. (Vice President; National Registrar)

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Cavaliers (past Treasurer General)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (Editor General)

  • Willard Family Association of America, Inc. (Director)

  • Shapleigh Family Newsletter

  • National Society of Old Plymouth Colony Descendants

  • United Empire Loyalists' Association of Canada

  • Sons of Spanish-American War Veterans

  • Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford

  • Friends & Descendants of St. George's (Descendants of Knights of the Garter)

  • Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

  • Military Order of the Crusades

  • Jamestowne Society

  • Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America

  • Central Region Association Allied Orders of the Grand Army of the Republic (Past Commander)

  • National Huguenot Society (Historian General)

  • National Society of Sons of the American Colonists

  • The National Gavel Society

  • Dutch Colonial Society (Vice President General)

  • Flagon and Trencher

  • Thomas Rogers Society

  • Son of a Witch (Treasurer General)

  • Society of the Descendants of Washington's Army at Valley Forge (Brigade Liaison Officer; Missouri Brigade Commander)

  • Elder William Brewster Society

  • National Society Descendants of Early Quakers

  • Clan Galbraith Society

  • Descendants of Founders of New Jersey

  • Reverend Robert and Sarah (Winter) Jordan Foundation, Inc.

  • Hereditary Order of the First Families of Massachusetts (Deputy Governor)

  • National Society Sons of Colonial New England

  • Order of Descendants of the Ancient & Honorable Artillery Company (Honorary President General)

  • Descendants of Mexican War Veterans (Graves Registration Officer)

  • Plymouth Hereditary Society (Genealogist General)

  • Descendants of the Knights of the Bath

  • Order of the First Families of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (Governor General)

  • La Société des Filles du roi et soldats du Carignan

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar

  • Presidential Families of America (Chaplain General)

  • Delmarva First Families

  • Clan Campbell Society (North America)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

  • Order of the First Families of Maryland

  • Order of the First Families of Maine 1604 – 1652 (Honorary President General)

  • Pilgrim Francis Cooke Society (Director-at-Large)

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

  • Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Treasurer General)

  • The Order of First Families of Connecticut 1633-1662 (past Historian General)

  • Pilgrim Hopkins Heritage Society

  • National Society of the Descendants of Textile Workers of America, Inc.

  • Order of the First Families of New Hampshire 1622-1680 (Deputy President General)

  • Order of First Families of Vermont 1609-1791

  • National Society of Saints and Sinners

  • Descendants of Sheriffs & Constables of Colonial & Antebellum America (Secretary General)

  • Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Chancellor of the Exchequer)

  • Order of New England

  • Society of Descendants of Lady Godiva (Godiva Gazette Editor; Count General)

  • Descendants of Fossors

  • Clan Colquhoun International Society

  • Military Order of Agincourt (Lieutenant)

  • Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands (past 2nd Vice President 2020-22)

  • Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900 (Honorary Postmaster General)

  • Founders Fellowship

  • Order of the Monarchs of Rheims (Registrar General)

  • Descendants of Colonial Mothers 1607 - July 4, 1776 (Recording Secretary General)

  • Order of the House of Wessex

  • Order of Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands (Keeper of the Purse)

  • Order of El Cid

  • National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants (Honorary President General)

  • Order of Descendants of Native Americans and Friends (past Director General)

  • Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia (Chaplain General)

  • Society of the 1704 Virginia Quit Rents

  • Order of Miners 1607-1907 (Vice President General)

  • Logan’s Brigade (Chaplain)

  • First Families of Quebec (President General)

  • National Society Founders of Places of Worship in America (2nd Vice President)

  • American Patrons of St. George’s and the Descendants of the Knights of the Garter

 

Authorships 

"A Doleful Slaughter Near Black Point: The Battle at Moore’s Brook, Scarborough, Maine, June 29, 1677," The Maine Genealogist (May and August 2003).

Editor

  • The Herald (2024-), Baronial Order of Magna Charta

  • The Pilgrims Newsletter (2021-), National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims 

  • The Passage (2020-), National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants

  • Kindred Spirit (2024-), Stetson Kindred of America, Inc.

  • Godiva Gazette (2023-), Society of the Descendants of Lady Godiva

  • Bravely for Country (2016-), Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Missouri

  • Missouri Compact (2018-), Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of Missouri

  • The Bulletin (2018-), Lewis & Clark Chapter, Jamestowne Society

  • Newsletter of the Missouri Branch—National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (2020-)

  • The Bulletin (2023-), Order of Founders and Patriots of America

  • PFA Gazette (2025-), Presidential Families of America

 

Past Editor

  • The 1812 War Cry (2020-2023), General Society of the War of 1812

  • The Post Rider (2018-20), Descendants of Early Postmasters 1607-1900

  • The Lighthouse (2021-22), Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

  • The Circular (2020-22), Missouri Society, Sons of the Revolution

  • Fletcher Camp Newsletter (2019-2023), Gen Thomas C. Fletcher Camp #47, Department of Missouri, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War

  • Rest in Peace (2016-19), Descendants of Fossors

 

Websites

Other

  • St. Louis Mercantile Library (board member)

  • Royal Society of Saint George

  • Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels (Missouri Chapter Secretary)

  • Company of Military Historians (chapter secretary)

  • Scottish St. Andrew Society of Greater St. Louis (board member)

  • Formerly played vintage baseball for the St. Louis Perfectos and Lafayette Square Cyclones.

  • J. R. R. Tolkien fan historian, working with Marquette University to collect secondary Tolkien material.

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