Born about in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Ancestors 
Daughter of Thomas Howlett
and Alice (French) Howlett
Wife of
John Cummings
— married
about 1655 in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Mother of
Ebenezer Cummings, Isaac Cummings, John Cummings Jr., Thomas Cummings, Nathaniel Cummings, Sarah (Cummings) French, Abraham (Cummings) Cummins, Eleazer Cummings, William Cummings, Benjamin Cummings and Samuel Cummings
Died
at about age 61
in Dunstable, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Profile last modified
| Created 21 Sep 2010
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Biography
Sarah Howlett was born about 1639, probably in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the daughter of Thomas Howlett of Ipswich and his wife Alice (French) Howlett.[1][2]
About 1655 Sarah married John Cummings, the son of Isaac and Mary (Kinsley) Cummings. Their first child was born at Boxford about 1657.[1][2]
Sarah (Howlett) Cummings died at Dunstable on December 7, 1700,[3] the result of an attack by Indians.[1]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) John Plummer, "Isaac Cummings of Essex County, Massachusetts" Vol. 145(1991):240.
- "John Cummings, bp. 9 May 1630; d. at Dunstable, Mass., 1 Dec. 1700; aged 50 in 1679; m. ca. 1655 Sarah Holwett, daughter of Thomas and Alice (French) Howlett, b. at Ipswich ca. 1634/5, d. at Dunstable 7 Dec. 1700."
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., p. 1027. 1995).Featured name: Thomas Howlett. (Link by $ubscription.)
- ↑ Vital Records of Dunstable, Mass., to the end of the year 1849 (Essex Institute: Salem, MA, 1913) p. 212
- "Cuming, Sarah, w. John, Dec. 7, 1700. N.R."
- Linzee, John William. The History of Peter Parker and Sarah Ruggles of Roxbury, Mass. (Boston, Mass., 1913) Page 298 (b. abt 1634, Ipswich; m. 1654/5, Boxford; d. 07 Dec 1700, Dunstable)
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