Elisha Cummlngs

16. ELISHA CUMMINGS (bp. 1719–1790), son of Isaac Cummings and Abigail Boardman

17. MARY ANDREWS

Elisha Cummings was baptized on 2 August 1719 in Topsfield. [TVR][ERC] He married first Mary Andrews of Boxford on 22 November 1744 in Topsfield. [TVR1] He married second Jerusha, the widow of Caleb Marston, on 30 July 1766. [CM]

Ensign Elisha Cummings of Topsfield was a soldier in Captain Israel Davis's company, Colonel Bagley's regiment in the French and Indian Wars. He was on the Crown Point Expedition in February 1756 and at Fort William Henry in August 1756. [FIW]

Children of Elisha Cummings and Mary Andrews:

i. Mary Cummings was born on 13 February 1745/6 in Topsfield. [TVR] She married John Bradford of Pelham. [CM]

ii. John Cummings was baptised on 13 September 1747. [TVR] John, the infant son of Elisha, died on 24 September 1747 in Topsfield. [TVR2]

iii. John Cummings was born on 8 February 1748/9. [CM]

iv. Andrew Cummings was born on 8 February 18[7?]48/9 in Topsfield. [TVR] He died on 12 February 1748/9. [CM]

v. Isaac Cummings was born on 24 April 1751 in Topsfield. [TVR]

vi. Elisha Cummings was born on 20 September 1754 in Topsfield. [TVR] He married Elizabeth Marston. [CM1]

vii. Nathaniel Cummings was born on 16 June 1761.

viii. Hannah Cummings married John Russell. [CM]

Children of Elisha and Jerusha Cummings

ix. Andrew Cummings was born on 10 May 1777. [CM] He died of palsy on 15 August 1868, age 88, in Bridgewater. [CM1] He married Hannah Crawford. [CM1]

References

ERC. John H. Gould, Early Records of the Church in Topsfield (Salem: Essex Institute, 1888), 24.

CM. George Mooar, The Cummings Memorial: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Isaac Cummings, an Early Settler of Topsfield, Massachusetts (New York: B.F. Cummings, 1903), 77.

CM1. Mooar, The Cummings Memorial, 170–2.

TVR. Vital Records of Topsfield, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903), 26–27, 29–31.

TVR1. Vital Records of Topsfield, 131.

TVR2. Vital Records of Topsfield, 212–4.

FIW. "Colonial Soldiers and Officers in New England, 1620–1775," database with images, AmericanAncestors > "Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars, 1755–1756," p. 251 and "Massachusetts Officers in the French and Indian Wars, 1748–1763," p. 103.

last revised 20-Apr-2020