Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameSarah Blair COLLINS 
668, 261
668, 261Birth Date16 Apr 1738
Birth PlaceMecklenburg County, North Carolina
Death Date10 Sep 1809 Age: 71
Death PlaceCaldwell County, Kentucky
FatherPhilip COLLINS , 522 (1701-1777)
MotherBetty YOUNGS , 523 (1705-1774)
Spouses
Birth Date12 Jun 1742
Birth PlaceMecklenburg County, North Carolina
Death Date1 Jul 1808 Age: 66
Death PlaceGuilford County, North Carolina
OccupationRW Soldier, Sergeant, NC Continental Troops, “Wounded P Town”, Thought To Be Battle Of Princeton (New Jersey),
FatherJohn CUMMINGS , 520 (1720-1803)
MotherMary Jane BLAIR , 521 (1721-1839)
Family ID6563
Marr Date4 Apr 1759 
Marr PlaceRowan, North Carolina
Marr MemoU.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
ChildrenElizabeth Ewing (1761-1829)
John Charles , 130 (1762-1826)
Thomas (1763-1846)
George F. (1764-1830)
James R. (1767-1840)
Sarah (1769-1821)
Charles Wesley (Twin) (1771-1860)
Hugh Douglas (Twin) (1771-1843)
Mathew (1773-)
Joseph (1775-1850)
Notes for George Washington (Spouse 1)
DAR information 6/21/18: CUMMINGS, GEORGE
Ancestor #: A028538
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, SERGEANT
Birth: 1742
Death: ANTE 2--1808 GUILFORD CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: NCDAR, ROSTER OF SOLS FROM NC IN THE AM REV, P 85; NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #781; STEIN, OLD GUILFORD CO NC COURT MINUTES 1781-88, PP 22, 24
Service Description: 1) CAPT GRIFFITH JOHN MCREE, COL THOMAS CLARK, 1ST NC BATT; ALSO PVT,
2) CAPT DONOHO, COL GIDEON LAMB, 6TH REGT; GRAND JUROR, 1782
Residence 1) County: GUILFORD CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA
Spouse 1) SARAH COLLINS
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State Records (p. 720) dated September 8th, 1778 =
George Cummins was a member of Capt. Griffith John McRee's Company of the First North Carolina Battalion commanded by Col. Thomas Clark. This State Record shows George Cummins enlisted April 16, 1776 for 2 1/2 years. This record (refers to Army Returns, Book 27, P.23) states that Sergt. George Cummins was "Wounded P. Town" [Princeton?]. Another State Record shows Cummins, Geo. Sergt., 6th Regiment under Donohoe's Company with the following occurrences: Pt. Decem, '77, Sergt Mar. '78. pt. Oct. '78, was discharged 3 Nov. '79.
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GEORGE CUMMINS1
According to Early, The Early Families of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky with Allied Families, 1st Ed., at p. 185, he was born in 1742 in that part of Bladen County, North Carolina, which later became Rowan County. Early says his parents were probably part of the large number of English speaking Quakers who settled in that part of North Carolina about 1700. His ancestry is reported to have been of both Dutch and Scotch extraction. It is possible that his ancestors came from Holland to Scotland. Family legend has it that the Cummins' were of German or Dutch descent and that some of them spoke "broken English", Witness the comments made to me years ago by Bill Ahrens (Grandmother Rebecca Walker's second husband).
However, there is some contradictory information in Rankin, History of Buffalo Presbyterian Church. There it is said that John Cummings came to North Carolina in 1753, with a group from the bounds of the old Nottingham Presbyterian Church, which is now at Rising Sun, Maryland, but was located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania until 1767, when the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was altered. They were Scotch-Irish, and while many such had immigrated to Pennsylvania, there was a growing reluctance to sell land to them, for fear of their gaining political control of the Colony. Consequently, the Nottingham group formed and secured rights to land from Earl Granville in what was Rowan County and later became Guilford. They came about 1753. He is said to have secured his grant on Reedy Fork and to have had at least two sons, George and John. No spouse is given for John, but George is said to have married Mary, daughter of Moses McQuiston, which is the same as in Phyllis Rogers' chart. I suppose he could have used variations of a name.
He fought in the American Revolution. A description of his tour of duty (as Cummings) is found in North Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers, 975.603 H412r, at p.85. It is reported that he served in Donoho's Company of the 6th Regiment under the command of Col. Gideon Lamb, enlisting on 16 April 1776 for 2½ years. He was a Private from December 1777 until March 1778, when he made Sergent; however, in October 1778 he was reduced to Private. He was discharged on 3 November 1779. Military archives show George Cummins as a Sergent on the Roll of Captain Griffith John McRee's Company of the First North Carolina Battalion, commanded by Colonel Thomas Clark; he is stated to have enlisted on 16 April 1776. This document has been interpreted to mean he was discharged on 8 September 1778, but that is not correct; he was on the Roll as a Sergent on that date. It recites that he was wounded at the Battle of "P/Town" (Princeton?).
It is said that he lived the rest of his life in Guilford County, N.C. and died there about 1808. When he was a very young man, George married a previously married woman, Mrs. Sarah Collins, in Rowan County, North Carolina in June of 1759. Her maiden name and other details are unknown. She probably lived at least until February of 1808, as George's Will was probated then and she was named as one of the Executors. The Will gives us the following information. It was signed on 9 December 1805. Probate of the Will was at the February 1808 term. His wife was Sarah, and she was devised land outright. His son, Joseph was made co-executor with Sarah. Joseph was also devised land, whereas the other heirs were given 5 shillings each. Those heirs were listed in the following order: the heirs of his son, John; his son Thomas, son George, daughter Elisabeth, son James, daughter Sarah, daughter Mathew (sic), son Charles and son Hugh. The sequence confirms the listing of their children below, at least in terms of seniority. Mathew would seem to be a mistranscription of Martha. Guilford County, North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1771-1841, Webster, 929.3 N8gu W379g, p.13. Why is John not listed, but his heirs instead? He didn't die until 1826, so was his father irritated with him for some reason, such as the fact that he left for Kentucky?
The following information about him is given in Index of North Carolina Ancestors, 929.3756 q138, p.47. George Cummings/Cummins was born about 1742 in Bladen County, North Carolina and died in 1808 in Guilford County. In the interim he lived in Rowan County, where he married Mrs. Sarah Collins in 1759.
A George Cummins was designated as a juror in Guilford County in 1782. Old Guilford North Carolina Court Notes 1781-1788, 929.3 N8gu G956o, item 22. He owned land as early as 1 August 1764, because a deed to his son, John, on 18 November 1779 conveyed 200 acres which he acquired on the former date. Guilford County, Deed Book Two, 1779-1784, 929.3 N8gu B472g Bk.2, p.1. On 1 March 1780 he took 640 acres from North Carolina. Supra, p.71. On 22 October 1782 North Carolina conveyed 118 acres to him. Supra, p.132. He owned land in Guilford County on 29 March 1784, as his name was used in a call for land acquired by someone else that day. Abstracts of Land Entrys: Guilford Co, NC 1779-1796 and Rockingham Co, NC 1790-1795, Pruitt, 929.3 N8gu P971a, p.36. No records exist, probably because the British burned them.
George and Sarah had ten children, according to a chart prepared by Phyllis Weaver Rogers and the book by Early.
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Ancestor #: A028538
Service: NORTH CAROLINA Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, SERGEANT
Birth: 1742
Death: ANTE 2--1808 GUILFORD CO NORTH CAROLINA
Service Source: NCDAR, ROSTER OF SOLS FROM NC IN THE AM REV, P 85; NARA, M881, COMP MIL SERV RECS, ROLL #781; STEIN, OLD GUILFORD CO NC COURT MINUTES 1781-88, PP 22, 24
Service Description: 1) CAPT GRIFFITH JOHN MCREE, COL THOMAS CLARK, 1ST NC BATT; ALSO PVT,
2) CAPT DONOHO, COL GIDEON LAMB, 6TH REGT; GRAND JUROR, 1782
Residence 1) County: GUILFORD CO - State: NORTH CAROLINA
Spouse 1) SARAH COLLINS
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State Records (p. 720) dated September 8th, 1778 =
George Cummins was a member of Capt. Griffith John McRee's Company of the First North Carolina Battalion commanded by Col. Thomas Clark. This State Record shows George Cummins enlisted April 16, 1776 for 2 1/2 years. This record (refers to Army Returns, Book 27, P.23) states that Sergt. George Cummins was "Wounded P. Town" [Princeton?]. Another State Record shows Cummins, Geo. Sergt., 6th Regiment under Donohoe's Company with the following occurrences: Pt. Decem, '77, Sergt Mar. '78. pt. Oct. '78, was discharged 3 Nov. '79.
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GEORGE CUMMINS1
According to Early, The Early Families of Knox and Whitley Counties, Kentucky with Allied Families, 1st Ed., at p. 185, he was born in 1742 in that part of Bladen County, North Carolina, which later became Rowan County. Early says his parents were probably part of the large number of English speaking Quakers who settled in that part of North Carolina about 1700. His ancestry is reported to have been of both Dutch and Scotch extraction. It is possible that his ancestors came from Holland to Scotland. Family legend has it that the Cummins' were of German or Dutch descent and that some of them spoke "broken English", Witness the comments made to me years ago by Bill Ahrens (Grandmother Rebecca Walker's second husband).
However, there is some contradictory information in Rankin, History of Buffalo Presbyterian Church. There it is said that John Cummings came to North Carolina in 1753, with a group from the bounds of the old Nottingham Presbyterian Church, which is now at Rising Sun, Maryland, but was located in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania until 1767, when the Maryland-Pennsylvania border was altered. They were Scotch-Irish, and while many such had immigrated to Pennsylvania, there was a growing reluctance to sell land to them, for fear of their gaining political control of the Colony. Consequently, the Nottingham group formed and secured rights to land from Earl Granville in what was Rowan County and later became Guilford. They came about 1753. He is said to have secured his grant on Reedy Fork and to have had at least two sons, George and John. No spouse is given for John, but George is said to have married Mary, daughter of Moses McQuiston, which is the same as in Phyllis Rogers' chart. I suppose he could have used variations of a name.
He fought in the American Revolution. A description of his tour of duty (as Cummings) is found in North Carolina Revolutionary Soldiers, 975.603 H412r, at p.85. It is reported that he served in Donoho's Company of the 6th Regiment under the command of Col. Gideon Lamb, enlisting on 16 April 1776 for 2½ years. He was a Private from December 1777 until March 1778, when he made Sergent; however, in October 1778 he was reduced to Private. He was discharged on 3 November 1779. Military archives show George Cummins as a Sergent on the Roll of Captain Griffith John McRee's Company of the First North Carolina Battalion, commanded by Colonel Thomas Clark; he is stated to have enlisted on 16 April 1776. This document has been interpreted to mean he was discharged on 8 September 1778, but that is not correct; he was on the Roll as a Sergent on that date. It recites that he was wounded at the Battle of "P/Town" (Princeton?).
It is said that he lived the rest of his life in Guilford County, N.C. and died there about 1808. When he was a very young man, George married a previously married woman, Mrs. Sarah Collins, in Rowan County, North Carolina in June of 1759. Her maiden name and other details are unknown. She probably lived at least until February of 1808, as George's Will was probated then and she was named as one of the Executors. The Will gives us the following information. It was signed on 9 December 1805. Probate of the Will was at the February 1808 term. His wife was Sarah, and she was devised land outright. His son, Joseph was made co-executor with Sarah. Joseph was also devised land, whereas the other heirs were given 5 shillings each. Those heirs were listed in the following order: the heirs of his son, John; his son Thomas, son George, daughter Elisabeth, son James, daughter Sarah, daughter Mathew (sic), son Charles and son Hugh. The sequence confirms the listing of their children below, at least in terms of seniority. Mathew would seem to be a mistranscription of Martha. Guilford County, North Carolina, Will Abstracts, 1771-1841, Webster, 929.3 N8gu W379g, p.13. Why is John not listed, but his heirs instead? He didn't die until 1826, so was his father irritated with him for some reason, such as the fact that he left for Kentucky?
The following information about him is given in Index of North Carolina Ancestors, 929.3756 q138, p.47. George Cummings/Cummins was born about 1742 in Bladen County, North Carolina and died in 1808 in Guilford County. In the interim he lived in Rowan County, where he married Mrs. Sarah Collins in 1759.
A George Cummins was designated as a juror in Guilford County in 1782. Old Guilford North Carolina Court Notes 1781-1788, 929.3 N8gu G956o, item 22. He owned land as early as 1 August 1764, because a deed to his son, John, on 18 November 1779 conveyed 200 acres which he acquired on the former date. Guilford County, Deed Book Two, 1779-1784, 929.3 N8gu B472g Bk.2, p.1. On 1 March 1780 he took 640 acres from North Carolina. Supra, p.71. On 22 October 1782 North Carolina conveyed 118 acres to him. Supra, p.132. He owned land in Guilford County on 29 March 1784, as his name was used in a call for land acquired by someone else that day. Abstracts of Land Entrys: Guilford Co, NC 1779-1796 and Rockingham Co, NC 1790-1795, Pruitt, 929.3 N8gu P971a, p.36. No records exist, probably because the British burned them.
George and Sarah had ten children, according to a chart prepared by Phyllis Weaver Rogers and the book by Early.
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