Ebenezer, born Sept. 17, 1695, recorded in Woburn; died Sept. s, 1724. He belonged to a company under command of Lieut. Jabez Fairbanks, which in the early part of 1724. searched for the Indians. Sept. 4, of the same year he joined a party of men under Lieut. Ebenezer French (his cousin) in pursuit of some Indians who had taken two neighbors captive. This party were waylaid at what is now Thornton's Ferry, on the Merrimac. Eight bodies of the killed were recovered and buried in one grave. Four rude headstones are still to be seen in the old burial place near what is now Little's station in Nashua, on one of which is the name of "Mr. Ebenezer Cummings, aged 29 years." He was not married, but seems to have been an enterprising young man, for Christopher Temple, Feb. 10, 1716, deeded several pieces of property to him near Salmon Brook, and Nashua River, and Ebenezer French deeded Feb. 17, 1717, 40 acres in Dunstable. John C. and Joseph Underwood gave the inventory of his estate as £120 3s. 9d.
