John Cummings

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Deacon John Cummings (b. c. 1657), son of John Cummings and Sarah Howlett

Elizabeth Kinsley (1657–1706), daughter of Samuel Kinsley and Hannah Bracket

Deacon John Cummings was born about 1657 in Boxford. [1] John Cummings of Dunstable married Elizabeth, the daughter of Samuel Kinsley and Hannah Bracket [2]

Elizabeth Kinsley was born on 22 November 1657. [1] Goody [Elizabeth Kinsley, in later writing], the wife of John, died on 3 July 1706 in Woburn. [3, 212]

Elizabeth, her mother Hannah, her stepbrother Nathaniel Blanchard and Nathaniel's wife and daughter were killed by Indians. [2] John was wounded in the Indian attack, his arm broken. He escaped and hid in a swamp. [1]

Children of John Cummings and Elizabeth Kinsley:

i. Deacon John Cummings was born on 7 July 1682 in Woburn. He died on 27 April 1759, age 76, in Westford. He married Elizabeth Adams.

ii. Samuel Cummings was born on 6 October 1684 in Dunstable. [3, 24] He died in 1718. [4, 14] He married Elizabeth Shed of Groton on 14 January 1708. [4, 14] She married second Robert Robbins of Littleton in 1720. [4, 14]

iii. Elizabeth Cummings was born on 5 January 1687 in Dunstable. [3, 25] She died on 30 April 1751. [2] She married [her cousin] Captain Joseph French, the son of Samuel French and Sarah Cummings. [2] Joseph was born on 10 March 1687. [4, 5]

iv. Hannah Cummings was born on 20 May 1690 in Groton. [4, 5]

v. Ebenezer Cummings was born on 17 September 1695 in Woburn. [5, 65] He and seven others were killed by Indians on 5 September 1724 in Woburn. [4, 5]

vi. Anna Cummings was born on 14 September 1698 in Dunstable. [3, 22]

vii. Lydia Cummings was born on 24 March 1701 in Woburn. [3, 24] She died in April 1701. [4, 5]

viii. Deacon William Cummings was born on 24 April 1702 in Woburn. [3, 25] He died on 29 August 1757. [4, 15] He married Sarah Harwood. [4, 15] Sarah, the daughter of William and Esther Harwood, was born on 26 June 1706 in Dunstable and died in 1769. [4, 15]

References

1. William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Family History of Western New York, vol. 3 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1912), 1168.

2. Ezra S. Stearns, Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable: Thirty Families (Boston: George E. Littlefield, 1911).,18–19.

3. Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts: To the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: Essex Institute, 1913).

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

5. Edward Francis Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Part 1 (births), Part 2, (deaths) Part 3 (marriages) (Woburn: Andrew Cutlery & Co., 1890).

Revised 03-Jun-2023