"The crown of old men is the grandsons, and the beauty of sons is their fathers." -- Proverbs 17:6
Our Scotch-Irish family apparently came to America before the rush of 1717 to depart from Ulster Ireland. The term "Scotch-Irish" was given them in America. In Ireland, they were known as Ulster Scots. Ulster Scots migrated from Scottland to Ireland, mainly in 1610. King James I of Scotland (James VI of England) setup plantations for Scots, English and French in Ulster to 'tame' the wild Irish. However, these emmigrants eventually became Irish themselves.
Some events that led to their migration to the New World were:
* 1704 The Test Act allowed only Anglicans to hold office, not other Protestants such as Presbyterians (Scotch-Irish were mainly Presbyterians).
* 1707 The Act of Union in between Scotland and England began a new era of Scottish emigration to America.
* 1715 The first up-rising of the Jacobites.
* 1717-18 The rack-renting (large jumps in rents) was the finale that started the large-scale migration of Scotch-Irish to America (More history to come).
This Cummins line is a decendant of Daniel Boone's older sister, Sarah. Sarah Boone's great-granddaughter, Sarah "Sally" Gatliff, married my 4th great-grandfather, James Cummins March 11, 1822 in Whitley County, Kentucky.
Another historical figure is connected with this line. James Cummins (b. 1793 in Guilford County, NC) married Sarah Gatliff, the granddaughter of Captain Charles Gatliff. Captain Gatliff lived and defended settlements with Daniel Boone, Simon Kenton and others. He helped build forts in the Virginia wilderness (Kentucky) and also provided food for the settlers by hunting. He was on a hunting trip with Simon Kenton and Joel Martin when his wife, Christina "Peggy" McGuire, and four children were captured by the British and almost one thousand Indians in May 1780. Captain Henry Bird, 8th Regiment of the British army, led the attack on two forts or stations, as they were called, in Kentucky -- Ruddell's and Martin's Stations. Peggy Gatliff and her three children were taken as slaves by the Wyandotte Indians. She lost her one and one-half year-old daughter on the march from Kentucky to Detroit. They were released at the end of the Revolutionary War and met Captian Charles Gatliff near Stauton in early 1783.
We have traced the Cummins Surname to Benjamin Cummins, 2nd great-grandfather of the above mentioned James Cummins. Benjamin and Sarah (Rowe) had at least two children, Robert and Thomas.
Thomas Cummins married Susanah. They were granted land in North Carolina near what is now Jacksonville and Wilmington. On April 8, 1752 320 acres in Onslow Co., NC was purchased by Thomas Cummins from Gibbons Jennings, a merchant, for 33 pounds 6 shillings and 8 pence. This was a parcel of 640 acres that had been "granted to Uriah Ross, February 26, 1735, on the river at mouth of Wallaces Creek, east side of New River." Thomas and Susanah had at least seven boys (George, Hugh, William, Benjamin, Aaron, James and Thomas Jr.).
George Cummins born 1742 in Bladen Co., NC, married Sarah Collins 1759 in Rowan Co., NC and died abt 1808 Guilford County, NC. George and Sarah had 10 children, one was John C. Cummins (b. 1761 in Rowan Co., NC; d. 1826).
John married Nancy abt 1778 in Guilford Co., NC. They had nine children. John traveled to VA with Capt. Gatliff and James McGuire in the late 1700s. John eventually settled his family in a section of Knox Co., KY which became Whitley Co. in 1818. He built the first saw mill in the area and became the Judge of Whitley Co., KY.
John's seventh child, James (b. abt 1793) married Sarah "Sally" Gatliff March 11, 1822 in Whitley Co., KY. Sally's lineage, as mentioned above goes back to Sarah Boone, Daniel Boone's oldest sister.
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