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ISAAC CUMMINGS (bp. 1601–1677)
ANNE UNKNOWN (say 1605–1658/77)
Isaac Cummings was baptized on 5 April 1610 in Easthorpe, co. Essex, England. [1] He died between 8 and 22 February 1677 in Topsfield. [1] He married Anne Unknown about 1628. [2]
Anne was born say 1605. She died between 6 May 1658 and 8 May 1677.
From his father's will it is learned that Isaac owed his father 44 pounds in 1633. This suggests that he probably did not have the resources to pay John for the property on Magdalen Street in Colchester. Thus, John would have been obliged to pay Isaac 58 pounds. He may have used this money to go to and begin his life in New England. [2]
Isaac received a grant of 35 acres in Watertown in 1636. He owned a planting lot in Ipswich before 25 July 1636. on 9 (2) 1639 he owned a house in Ipswich Village. [3, xiv]
Isaac was a commoner in Ipswich in 1639. He was made freeman on 18 May 1642.[3, xiv]
Isaac (or perhaps his son Isaac) was on a jury at the court in Ipswich on 25: 7: 1649, 30 March 1652, 25: 7: 1665, 28: 7: 1658, 25 September 1660, 30 September 1662, 27: 7 1664, 26 September 1665 and 29 September 1668. [4, 1: 175, 247, 396; 2: 111, 225, 433; 3: 182, 278; 4:46]
John Armitage of Lynn acknowledged judgment to Isaac on 28: 9: 1654. [4, 1,374] Isaac and John Fuller had a long history of legal battles that began when John accused Isaac of taking his heifer on 28 March 1654. [4, 1: 133; 2:5, 21, 152, 355]
Anne Cummings was fined for lying on 6 May 1658. [4, 2: 70]
Isaac deposed that he was 65[!] on 29: 1: 1666. [4, 3:312]
Isaac Cummings was sworn constable of Topsfield on 27 March 1666. [4, 3:299] A writ dated 14 May 1666 was served by Isaac Cummings, Jr., deputy constable and Isaac Cummings, Sr., constable of Topsfield. [4, 3:335]
Isaac, Sr. and Isaac, Jr. were on a 14: 10: 1661 list of commoners of Topsfield. [4, 4:149]
Isaac wrote his will on 8 (3) 1677. It was witnessed by John Poore, Sr., Thomas Dorman and Isaac Foster. Isaac left his son Isaac ten acres on the south side of the the great river. His son-in-law John Jewett was left ten pounds in cattle and household goods; his son-in-law John Pease was left 30 pounds in cattle and household goods. He left his grandson Isaac, son of Isaac a one-year-old heifer, one little sow, the Indian corn that he planted, his second largest chest and ten pounds when he was 17. He named his son John his executor and left him his house and lands — about 40 acres. If any of his children, through discontent, were to cause trouble for the executor their legacy was to revert to the executor. Inventory on his estate, not including real estate, taken on 22 May 1677 and attested to by John Cummings on 14 June 1677, amounted to £116 1 s. 6d., with debts of £19 16s. 5d. [3, xiv]
Children of Isaac Cummings and Anne Unknown:
i. Isaac Cummings was baptized on 20 May 1629 in Mistley. [5] He was buried there on 23 May 1629. [5]
ii. Corporal John Cummings born about 1629/30. He died on 1 December 1700 in Dunstable. He married Sarah Howlett.
iii. Deacon Isaac Cummings was was baptized on 17 Mar 1632/3 in Mistley. He married Mary Andrews.
iv. Ann Cummings was baptized on 22 Feb 1634/5 in Mistley. [5] She died on 29 June 1689. [3, 2] She married, as his second wife, John Pease of Salem on 8 October 1669. [3, 2] He died on 8 July 1689. [3, 2] He married first Mary Unknown, who died on 5 January 1668. [3, 2]
John came to New England on the Francis from Ipswich, Suffolk. [3, 2] He and Anne moved to Enfield, Connecticut. [3,
v. Elizabeth Cummings was born about 1637. [5] She married John Jewitt on 2: 2: 1661 in Rowley. [7]
References:
1. David Butler Cummings, "Isaac Cummings (1601–1677) of Watertown, Ipswich and Topsfield, Massachusetts, and His Ancestry," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 165 (2011), 35–41.
2. ———, "The Will of Isaac's Father, John Commyn," will transcribed by Peter C. Nutt, Isaac Cummings Family Association (https://www.isaaccummingsfamily.org/).
3. Albert Oren Cummins, Cummings Genealogy: Isaac Cummings, 1601-1677, of Ipswich in 1638 and Some of His Descendants (Montpelier: A.O. Cummins, 1904).
4. George Francis Dow, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Essex Institute, 1911 - 1975. Online Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project (https://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html).
5. John Plummer, "Isaac Cummings of Essex County, Massachusetts," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 145 (1991), 239.
6. Vital Records Topsfield, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Topsfield: Topsfield Historical Society, 1903).
7. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts to the End of the year 1849, vol. 1 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1928), 277.
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