sentences:  The bridge was named for John Sullivan, a Revolutionary War general, Governor of New Hampshire, and delegate to the Continental Congress, who was from nearby Somersworth.Little Bay had previously been spanned by a railroad and automobile bridge, which had been completed in December 1873 and began carrying rail traffic in February 1874; after 60 years of service, it was dismantled in February 1935.Its abutments were located approximately north of the General Sullivan Bridge.