Elisha Cummlngs

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

MARY ANDREWS (1725 – by 1776), daughter of John Andrews and Patience Andrews

Elisha Cummings was baptized on 2 August 1719 in Topsfield. [1][2] He married first Mary Andrews of Boxford on 22 November 1744 in Topsfield. [3] He married second Jemima, the widow of Caleb Marston, on 30 July 1776 in Newmarket, New Hampshire. [4][5]

Mary Andrews was born on 26 April 1725 in Boxford. [6] She was baptized in February 1719/20. [6]

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. [7]

Elisha was in Topsfield in 1757, but left sometime after for Bridgewater, New Hampshire. [8]

Children of Elisha Cummings and Mary Andrews:

i. Mary Cummings was born on 13 February 1745/6 in Topsfield. [1] She married John Bradford of Pelham. [4] John Bradford may be the son of John and Elizabeth Leech, born 16 November 1748 in Beverly. [9] Lieutenant John Bradford died on 22 March 1822, age 73. Mary, the wife of John Bradford died on 6 March 1826, age 80. John and Mary are buried in the Atwood Cemetery in Pelham, New Hampshire. [10]

John Bradford of Pelham, gentleman, made his will on 23 February 1821; an executor was appointed on 7 May 1822. He mentioned his wife Mary and children Robert, Polly Sergeant and Andrew C. [11]

ii. John Cummings was baptized on 13 September 1747. [1] John, the infant son of Elisha, died on 24 September 1747 in Topsfield. [12]

iii. John Cummings (twin) was born on 8 February 1748/9. [4]

iv. Andrew Cummings (twin) was born on 8 February 18[7?]48/9 in Topsfield. [1] He died on 12 February 1748/9. [4]

v. Isaac Cummings was born on 24 April 1751 in Topsfield. [1] He married Betsey Boynton. [13]

He is probably the Isaac Cummings who served in Stark's First New Hampshire Regiment in the Revolutionary War. [14]

vi. Elisha Cummings was born on 20 September 1754 in Topsfield. [1] He married Elizabeth Marston. [15]

vii. Nathaniel Cummings was born on 16 June 1761. He died on 30 October 1818 in New Hampton, New Hampshire. He married Mary Crawford.

viii. Hannah Cummings married John Russell. [4]

Children of Elisha and Jerusha Cummings:

ix. Andrew Cummings was born on 10 May 1777 in Bridgewater. [16] He died of palsy on 15 August 1868, age 88, in Bridgewater. [17] He married Hannah Crawford on 28 July 1801 in New Hampton. [14][18]

References

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

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

3. Vital Records of Topsfield, 131.

4. George Mooar, The Cummings Memorial: A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Isaac Cummings (New York: B.F. Cummings, 1903), 77.

5. "New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index, 1637–1947," database, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2554), entry for Elisha Cummins and Jemima Marston, 30 July 1776, Newmarket.

6. "Descendants of Robert Andrews of Rowley Village (Boxford)," Essex Antiquarian 3 (1899): 113–9, specifically 116.

7. "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.

8. Albert Oren Cummins, Cummings Genealogy: Isaac Cummings, 1601-1677, of Ipswich in 1638 and Some of His Descendants (Montpelier: A.O. Cummins, 1904), 82.

9. Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849, 2 vols. (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1906, 1907), vol. 1: 50, John, s. John & Elizabeth, b. 16 November 1748 and vol. 2: 41, John, Jr. m. Elizabeth Leech, 4 May 1742.

10. Find a Grave, database and images , memorial pages for Lieut John Bradford (16 Nov 1748–29 Mar 1822), and Mary Cummings Bradford (13 Feb 1746–6 Mar 1826), Find a Grave Memorial IDs 29653819 and 29653902, citing Atwood Cemetery, Pelham, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, USA; Maintained by 47117651 (contributor 47117651), both accessed 27 November 2022.

11. "New Hampshire, Wills and Probate Records, 1643–1982," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/8996) > Estate papers, no. 10391–10464, 1822, images 1019–1179.

12. Vital Records of Topsfield, 212–4.

13. Cummins, Cummings Genealogy, 186.

14. "Revolutionary War Service Records," database with images, Fold3 > NH > First (Stark's) > Individuals > C > Cummings, Isaac.

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

16. "New Hampshire, U.S., Births and Christenings Index, 1714–1904," database, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/2559), entry for Andrew Cummings.

17. "New Hampshire, U.S., Death and Disinterment Records, 1754–1947," database with images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/search/collections/5242) > Deaths > early to 1900 > Colburn–Conway, image 3213.

18. "New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage Records Index," entry for Andrew Cumings.

last revised 25-Dec-2022