Davis Uriah I | Born 1707

KINSLEY, Elizabeth

Female 1657 - 1706  (48 years)


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  • Name KINSLEY, Elizabeth 
    Born 22 Nov 1657  Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 3 Jul 1706  Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7678  Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2018 

    Family CUMMINGS, John Sergeant,   b. 1657, Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1732, Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 76 years) 
    Married 13 Sep 1680  Probably Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 
    Family ID F2791  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 


    • per the History of Dunstable, Massachusetts by Hill:

      "At sunset Mr. John Cummings and his wife "Goody" went out to milk theircows, and left the ga te open. The Indians, who had advancedundiscovered, started up, shot Mrs. Cummings dead upo n the spot, andwounded her husband. They then rushed through the open gate into thehouse wit h all the horrible yells of conquering savages, but started withamazement on finding the roo m filled with soldiers merrily feasting. Bothparties were completely amazed, and neither acte d with much propriety.The soldiers, so suddenly interrupted in their jovial entertainment,fou nd themselves called to fight when entirely destitute of arms andincapable of obtaining them.

      "The greater part were panic struck and unable to fight or fly. some sixor seven courageou s souls, with chairs, clubs, or whatever they couldseize upon, furiously attacked the advanci ng foe. The Indians, who wereas much surprised as the soldiers, immediately took to their he els forsafety.

      "The trumpeter, who was in the upper part of the house when the attackcommenced, seized his t rumpet and sounded the alarm, when he was shotdead by an Indian upon the stairway.

      "Cummings, who was wounded, had his arm broken, but was so fortunate asto reach the woods whi le the Indians were engaged in the house. Thatnight he lay in a swamp in the northerly par t of Tyngsborough, about aquarter of a mile west of the great road, and a few rods south of t heState line. The next day he arrived at the garrison near TyngsboroughVillage.

      "Mrs. Cummings, the wife of John Cummings, died on July 3 at night, 1796."

      From NEHGR article by J. Crawford Hartman, Vol. 93, April 1939, page 166:

      "Nathaniel Blanchard and his wife, Lydia, his daughter Susannah, hismother Hannah, and her da ughter by a former marriage, Elizabeth (Kinsley)Cummings, were killed by the Indians. A vivi d account of this incidentsurvives in the journal of the Rev. Jonathan Pike, a contemporarycl ergyman: 'Capt. Person of Rowley marching his troop to Dunstable, &being posted with part o f his troop at one Blanchard house, while theywere at supper in the Chamber, the enemy had sl ightly turned Blanchard'ssheep into his Corn, while he and his wife going out to restore, wer eboth slain, the Doors and Gates being open, the enemy entered the house,killed Person's Trum peter, with 3 other troopers, and wounded five more;at last they were driven out of ye hous e with the Loss of one Indian."