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

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

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

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

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

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. [VRD, 24] He died in 1718. [AOC, 14] He married Elizabeth Shed of Groton on 14 January 1708. [AOC, 14] She married second Robert Robbins of Littleton in 1720. [AOC, 14]

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

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

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

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

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

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

Endnotes:

VRD. Vital Records of Dunstable, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem: The Essex Institute, 1849).

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

WRB. Edward F. Johnson, Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages From 1600 to 1900, vol. 1 (Woburn: Andrew Cutler & Co., 1890).

EGF. Ezra S. Stearns, Early Generations of the Founders of Old Dunstable: Thirty Families (Boston: George E. Littlefield, 1911), 3–6.

AOC. Albert Oren Cummins, Cummings Genealogy: Isaac Cummings 1601–1677 ... (Montpelier, VT: Argus and Patriot Printing House, 1904).

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

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