CUMMINGS, Thomas Deacon

1658 - 1723  (64 years)

• Name	CUMMINGS, Thomas  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Suffix	Deacon
  Born	6 Oct 1658	Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Male
  Died	20/20 Jan 1722/1723	Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
  Buried	Ancient Cemetery, South Nashua (Now Nh)
  Person ID	I3222	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	CUMMINGS, John,   b. Bef 9 May 1630, Mistley, Essex, England ,   d. 1 Dec 1701, Dunstable (Now Hudson), New Hampshire  (Age > 71 years)
  Mother	HOWLETT, Sarah,   b. 3/03 Mar 1633/1634, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 7 Dec 1700, Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts  (Age 66 years)
  Married	1 Dec 1655	Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts   [5]
  Family ID	F1171	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	WARNER, Pricilla,   b. 25 Sep 1666, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts ,   d. Aft 1725  (Age > 60 years)
  Married	19 Dec 1688
  Children	1. CUMMINGS, Pricilla,   b. 1 Oct 1689,   d. 13 Sep 1728  (Age 38 years)   2. CUMMINGS, Mary,   b. 25 Apr 1692,   d. Yes, date unknown   3. THOMAS, Jr Cummings,   b. 24 Oct 1694, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. 2 Jun 1695  (Age 0 years)   4. CUMMINGS, Sarah,   b. 15 Sep 1696, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   5. CUMMINGS, Ann,   b. 3/03 Feb 1698/1699   6. THOMAS, Jr Cummings,   b. 10 Apr 1701,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. CUMMINGS, Jonathan Deacon,   b. 3 Jul 1703, Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 1791, Hillsboro County, New Hampshire  (Age 87 years)   8. CUMMINGS, Ephraim,   b. 10/10 Mar 1705/1706, Dunstable (Now Hudson), New Hampshire ,   d. Abt 11 Mar 1771, Hudson, New Hampshire, (Coffin Built On This Date)  (Age 65 years)   9. CUMMINGS, Samuel,   b. 12 Apr 1708,   d. 20/20 Jan 1722/1723  (Age 14 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F1170	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Thomas was one of the proprietors of the town of Dunstable, New Hampshire, and had a tract of land measuring 1-1/2 miles by 40 rods, east of Hills Meadow (now in Hudson, New Hampshire). Deacon Thomas Cummings was an early settler of Dunstable. Jan. 3, 1712. He was among several persons to whom William Brattle deeded some 2000 acres. In 1718. He owned 125 acres of the Brattle Farm in that town. He was a carpenter by trade. He was elected deacon of the church. He lived perhaps in the southern part of the old town of Dunstable, as his son joined in 1733 in a remonstrance against the location of the meeting house in the northern part of the town, near the old site. He was buried at the cemetery near what is now called Little's station, which is north of the Massachusetts state line. The inscription reads: "Here lyes the body of Deacon Thomas Cummings, aged 64 y. 17 d. Deceased Jan 20, 1722-3." Thomas was in Boston for several years, for whom William Mumford, stone-cutter, became surety, July 19, 1694. Two children's births are on record there to Thomas and Priscilla. During the Indian disturbances, many of the inhabitants of Dunstable were obliged to find refuge elsewhere. In 1696, two-thirds of the settlers had fled, and in 1699 only 20 heads of families remained.

  
  

• Sources

  [S20] New Hampshire Genealogical Digest, Volume I, 1623-1900. [S21] The Cummings Memorial. " A Genealogical History of the Descendants of Isaac Cummings, An EarlySettler of Topsfield ,Massachusetts", compiled by Rev. George Mooar, NewYork, 1903: [S22] Nason p.56. [S23] "Cummings Genealogy, Isaac Cummings 1601-1677 of Ipswich 1638 and Some ofhis Descendants",. Compiled and published by Albert Oren Cummins, Montpelier, Vermont, 1904: [S13] NEHGR, Vol CXLV, July 1991: Isaac Cummings of Essex Co, MA by JohnPlummer.