Person:John Cummings (15)

Watchers
m. Bef 1658
  1. John CummingsBef 1658 - Aft 1732
  2. Deacon Thomas Cummings1658 - 1722/23
  3. Nathaniel Cummings1659 - Aft 1725
  4. Sarah Cummings1661/62 -
  5. Abraham CummingsAbt 1663 - Bef 1707
  6. Isaac CummingsAbt 1666 - 1688
  7. Ebenezer CummingsAbt 1668 - 1688
  8. William Cummings1671 - 1672
  9. Eliezer Cummings1671 -
  10. Benjamin Cummings1672/73 -
  11. Samuel Cummings1677 -
m. 13 Sep 1681
  1. John Cummings1682 -
  2. Samuel Cummings1684 -
  3. Elizabeth Cummings1687 -
  4. Sarah Cummings1690 -
  5. Ebenezer Cummings1695 - 1724
  6. Ann Cummings1698 -
  7. Lydia Cummings1701 - 1701
  8. Deacon William Cummings1702 - 1757
  • HJohn CummingsBef 1658 - Aft 1732
  • W.  Elizabeth Usher (add)
m. Aft 1711
Facts and Events
Name John Cummings
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1658 Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 13 Sep 1681 Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Kinsley
Marriage Aft 1711 Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Usher (add)
Death[1] Aft 1732 Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Cummings Memorial has this to say;

He is probably the John who is designated as "Serg't Cummings," and was one of a small garrison in Dunstable established Dec. 25, 1702, under command of Lt. Col. Jonathan Tyng. It is usually stated that it was the garrison at his own house which was assaulted, July 3, 1706, by a party of two hundred Mohawk Indians. His house stood on the right hand of the road from Dunstable to the present town of Tyngsborough, about a half mile from the former place. The stories of the attack are not harmonious in all particulars. It seems to be agreed that there was a company of soldiers in the garrison at the time and that they were surprised. "At sunset a Mr. Cummings and his wife went out to milk their cows and left the gate open. The Indians who had advanced undiscovered, started up, shot Mrs .Cummings dead ('Goody Cummings died July 3, 1706, at night.') upon the spot, and wounded her husband who had his arm broken, but was so fortunate as to reach the woods while the Indians were engaged in the house. That night he lay in a swamp in the northerly part of Tyngsborough, about a quarter of a mile west of the great road, and a few rods south of the state line. The next day he arrived at the garrison near Tyngsborough Village." (1. N. H. Hist. Coll. 133.) He is spoken of as selectman in 1711 and in the same year the house of Mr. John Cummings was reported as one of seven fortified houses in Dunstable, having two families, two males, two soldiers, and twenty-one persons in all. "Sarg't Cummings & Henry Farwell were deputed in 1717, Jan. 10, by vote of the town to get a minister as soon as they can." May 20th, 1725, after the sad occasion of Capt. Lovewell's defeat, both John Cummings and John Cummings Jr. joined with the Selectmen and other citizens in petitioning the Governor and Council of Mass. for protection in the defenceless condition of the community. The question arises whether the elder John had remarried. It is on record that "John Cummings of Groton, weaver, and wife Elisabeth, widow of John Sollendino, sold land in Groton, 1732." Sollendino was married 1679-80, to Elisabeth Usher, said to be the first marriage in Dunstable. He was a carpenter and helped build the meetinghouse in 1677 and a bridge over Salmon Creek, 1699. His house was one of seven garrisons in 1711.

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 4, in Mooar, George. The Cummings Memorial: A genealogical history of the descendants of Isaac Cummings, an early settler of Topsfield, Massachusetts. (New York: B.F. Cummings, 1903)
    p. 4, 10, 11.