David Cummins and Jennet Davison

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Husband David Cummins ¹

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Wife Jennet Davison ¹

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Children

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1 M William Cummins ¹

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         Spouse: Margaret Todd (      -      ) 1

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2 M John Cummins ¹

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         Spouse: Eleanor Todd (      -      ) 2

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3 M David Cummins ³

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         Spouse: Mary "Polly" Trimble (      -      ) 4

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4 F Mary Cummins ¹

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         Spouse: Charles Morrow (      -      ) 2

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5 F Elizabeth Cummins ⁵

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           Born: Abt 1779
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         Spouse: Jeremiah Brown (Abt 1776-1830) 7

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General Notes: Husband - David Cummins

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He and his wife came [to Indiana County] from Franklin County, Pennsylvania, probably about 1780, and settled near the later site of Homer, where they took up land, and began to improve it, when the Indians became hostile and compelled them to leave. Jennet Cummins would tell of seeing "an Indian pass the door of their cabin in the dusk of the evening, while she was sitting inside the door nursing her child, her husband being absent." Next morning she found where two men had lain in the long grass near their house, but had disappeared without making any attack. Taking the alarm, they packed up what they could carry on horseback, buried their kitchen furniture and pewter ware in the spring run, and left for a place of safety. They returned to Franklin County, and from there to Rockingham County, Virginia, where, having resided several years, and her husband having died, Mrs. Cummins was left with five children to care for, three sons and two daughters. When William, the oldest, had attained his seventeenth year, John, the next brother, being fourteen, they left their home in Virginia, and came back to their claim, whence they had been driven. They built a house, raised some grain, cut some hay, which they obtained from a neighbor, the other settlers having returned to their farms soon after the Indian raid. Being thus prepared, the boys returned to Virginia, and brought out the family. It is impossible to give any exact dates, but these things must have occurred about the year 1789.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 445.

2 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 446.

3 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 445, 515.

4 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 446, 515.

5 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 446, 460, 470.

6 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 470.

7 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 460, 470.