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Early Life

Revolutionary War General John Sullivan
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John Sullivan was born on February 17, in Somersworth, New Hampshire. When John was 20, he took Lydia Remick Worster to be his wife.

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Their first daughter died when she was a baby, after that, they had another daughter and three sons. Later they had another daughter, who died when she was two years old.

Law & Early Military

In , John started studying law. in he started to practice law as a profession. John was the only lawyer in in Durham, New Hampshire, and as such many people were upset with him over lawsuits having to do with foreclosure and other personal matters.

In , he even started to receive threats from his neighbors.

However difficult living in Durham may have made his career, it did not do him so badly socially. During his time there, John became great friends with the royal governor, John Wentworth.

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