Person:John Cummings (16)

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m. Abt 1628
  1. Isaac Cummings1629 - 1629
  2. John Cummings1630 - 1700
  3. Deacon Isaac Cummings1632/33 - Bef 1721
  4. Anne CUMMINGSAbt 1635 - 1689
  5. Elizabeth Cummings1636/37 - 1679
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 -
Facts and Events
Name John Cummings
Gender Male
Christening[1] 9 May 1630 Mistley, Essex, England
Residence[2] 1656 Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage Bef 1658 Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesEstimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Sarah Howlett
Residence[2] 1658 Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Residence[2] 1680 Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Death[2] 1 Dec 1700 Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesDeath not found in published Dunstable Vital Records.
References
  1. Plummer, John. Isaac Cummings of Essex County, Massachusetts. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jul 1991)
    145:240.

    John (Cummings), bp. (Mistley, Essex) 9 May 1630; d. at Dunstable, Mass., 1 Dec. 1700; aged 50 in 1679 (Linzee, 204-5, citing Essex Court Files 24:20); m. ca. 1655 Sarah Howlett, daughter of Thomas and Alice (French) Howlett.

  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 John Cummings, in Linzee, John William. The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. and Their Ancestors and Descendants. (Boston, Mass.: Samuel Usher, 1913)
    204-09.

    John Cummings, son of Isaac Cummings and _____ _____; b. about 1630-1 Scotland or England; (Essex Ct. Files XIX:86) John Cummings aged about 40 years in 1673; (Essex Ct. Files XXII:94 & XXIII:49) John Cummings aged about 40 years in 1674; (Essex Ct. Files XXIV:20) John Cummings aged about 40 and John Cummings aged about 18 years in 1674; (Essex Ct. Files LIII:47) John Cummings aged about 50 in 1679; on the list of freemen in 1673, his name precedes his brother Isaac Cummings'; d. 1 Dec. 1700 Dunstable, Mass. … John Cummings probably came to America with his father Isaac in 1637, and settled first at Ipswich, Mass.; nothing is known of his early life, but soon after his marriage he resided in Boxford about 1656, and at Topsfield in 1658, where the majority of his children were born. … John Cummings next appears as one of the first settlers of Dunstable, Mass., in 1680, and was selectman there in 1682. … On the 7 Dec. 1685 John Cummings and his wife Sarah were still members of the church of Topsfield, and were voted dismission to John Cummings without recommendation, and to his wife with commendation to the church to be shortly gathered at Dunstable.