Created 23 February 2010
CUMMINGS Family AncestrY
Isaac was born 15 February 1664 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, and married first 25 December 1688 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts, Alice HOWLETT, the daughter of Thomas HOWLETT and Alice FRENCH. She was born 1656 in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts and died 1696 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
He married second 23 November 1696 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, Frances SHERWIN the daughter of John SHERWIN and Frances LOOMIS. She was born 27 January 1681, in Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts and died 25 December 1700 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. Isaac died 7 August 1746, in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
Isaac "was a farmer in Ipswich. His first wife, Alice, with her sister, Mary, wife of Thomas Hazen, received by will of their grandfather, Thomas Howlet, Sr., 1OO acres of land in Ipswich, in 'the thick woods.' That will was dated Nov. 1, 1677. The land was deeded to them by William Howlet, executor, Apr. 4, 1687. Hazen and wife sold their half to Isaac and Alice Cummings, Oct. 10, 1693, for £80. This estate was bounded by 'Salstonstall's' and Samuel Howlet's farms. In 1721 Isaac bought of John Goodhue, for £78, 13 1/2 acres 'on the edge of the thick woods,' on Ipswich river, bounded on Thomas Lamson's meadow and on Mr. Hart's. He and his wife were dismissed to Ipswich church, 1721, from church in Topsfield. He sold his Rowley village land, 67 acres, to John Chadwick, Oct. 3, 1717, for £103. June 28, 1726, a division was made between Isaac and his son, Isaac, Jr., of the 138 acres they owned, 'bounded on Salstonstalls, E. on Samuel Hart, partly on said Cummings, Sr., N. on Joseph Cummings and Dea. John Howlet, W. on Ipswich River and partly on Joseph Cummings'.' He bequeathed to his son, Isaac, the John Goodhue land, above mentioned, and 2 1/2 acres of woodland, Iying by Smith's land, formerly Salstonstall's; to his widow, as long as she remained such, the use and improvement of his estate, she paying to Isaac the land just mentioned and £40 lent him years ago; to Lydia Smith, daughter, £100; to four grandchildren, children of daughter, Alice Bixby, deceased, £100, to be paid as they arrive at full age, the sons at 21, and the daughters at 18; to daughter, Jemima Foster, £150, also half of his household goods; to Jerusha, daughter, the same as to Jemima. The inventory of his estate was £602 2s. 4d."
CHILDREN of Isaac CUMMINGS III and Alice HOWLETT:
1. LYDIA chr: 4 May 1690; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
md: 5 Oct 1725; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
Stephen SMITH
d: 10 Jul 2748; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
2. ISAAC IV b: 24 Apr 1692; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
md: 8 Mar 1716; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
Abigail BOARMAN
d: 12 Oct 1761; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
+ 3. ALICE b: 10 Dec 1695; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
chr: 9 May 1697; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
md: 22 Apr 1725; Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts.
Thomas BIXBY
d: 30 Apr 1734; Hopkinton, Middlesex, Massachusetts.
CHILDREN of Isaac CUMMINGS III and Frances SHERWIN
1. MERCY b: 5 Jun 1699; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
d: 4 Nov 1731; , , Massachusetts.
2. JEMIMA b: 8 Jul 1704; , , Massachusetts.
md: 1 Jan 1733; , , Massachusetts.
Jonathan FOSTER
d: Bef 1750; . . Massachusetts.
3. PELATIAH b: 15 May 1707; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
d: 14 May 1727; Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.
4. JERUSHA b: 17 Feb 1710; Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts.
md: 1 Jan 1735; Ipswich, Esses, Massachusetts.
Joshua CONANT
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