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- Information from hand drawn chart by (Phi)Lura Lincoln Cook.
Robert Cummins (or Cummings)
Private in Captain Sam Hays' Company.
7th Batallion
5th Series - Pennsylvania Archives, Vol VI p 340.
Born in Londonderry, Ireland.
Robert Cummins, father of Jane, was a private in Captain Sam Hays Company, 7th Batallion, during the Revolutionary War. His record is in the Pennsylvania Archives, Series V, Volume 3. The 7th Batallion (or 7th Pennsylvania Regiment) was commanded by Colonel William Irvine.
Revoltutionary War records certify that Robert's wife was Rebecca Jane Kilgore.
The surname is sometimes spelled: Cumming and Cummins.
DIFFERENT FACTS-- (From Judge James Lincoln) Robert Cummins never fought in the Samuel Hays Company. He fought in the Captain Robert Adams Company in the Revolutionary War. Source of this information is the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 4400 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, Pennsylvania Archives.
"I have been unable to find in the Pennsylvania Archives a Robert Cummins in Samuel Hays' Company. I do find, the name, however, in Captain Robert Adams' Company. Photocopies are enclosed. Robert Cummins enlisted January 30, 1776.
The DAR Lineage Book v. 111 also lists him in the Adams Company. Since Jane Kilgore, wife, is listed also in the family chart included in your letter I believe this is the right Robert Cummins. His name appears also in DAR Lineage Books v. 126, p. 277 with the information that he died near Bethany, W. Va.; v. 127, p. 148 gives his birthplace as Londonderry, Ireland."
DAR Lineage Book V. 111, Nos. 110001-111000 - Robert Cummins (1751 - 1837) received a pension, 1832, for service as private, Capt. Robert Adams' Company, Pennsylvania Line. He was born in Londonderry, Ireland; died in West Virginia. ??Death date is given as 7-4-1837. The DAR doesn't have a manuscript file on Robert Cummins, just the name of the person who submitted DAR proof.
NOTES based on the will of Robert Cummins, made by Judge James Lincoln (11/1999):
Robert Cummins seemed to be a banker where there probably was no bank. Note that his estate was largely small loans he made that totaled over $2500 - which was a hell of a lot of money. Like many in that time, he deeded his land during his lifetime to his heirs - no gift tax then. (Gift taxes start at $10,000 today.) He gave his daughter, Jane Cummins Buchanan and husband David, slaves for wedding dower. He died near Bethany, West Virginia. (THERE WOULD BE RECORDS IN REGISTRAR OF DEEDS OFFICE OF BROOKE COUNTY, WV, AS TO LAND HE OWNED.)
SONS OF THE REVOLUTION (SAR) - References Robert Cummins as follows: Service- Private, PA, SAR @137138, MO#01795, SAR File Reference: #68 1CM.GED 15 June 1999.
Rebecca Jane Kilgore - SAR File Ref: #69 1cm.ged 15 June 1999
Jane Cummins - SAR File Ref: #67 1cm.ged June 1999
RESEARCH TO BE DONE: at National Archives- get copy of pension papers.
WILL ABSTRACTS OF BROOKE COUNTY, (WEST) VIRGINIA 1797-1849, by K.T.H. McFarland, publ 1986, Closson Press: page 46:
Cummins, Robert -WILL BOOK III, page 108:
Names: Daughters - Elizabeth Young, Jane Buchanan, Rebecca Clark, Margaret Buchanan, Martha Irwin, Nancy Buchanan (decd.), Mary Stewart (decd.)
-- Grandsons - David Stewart, Robert Stewart
-- Granddaughters - Mary, daughter of Nancy Buchanan; Rebecca, daughter of Nancy Buchanan; Elizabeth Stewart; Rebecca Stewart; Mary Stewart; Virginia Stewart.
Executor: Thomas Buchanan
Witnesses: Robert Hervey, William Irwin
Dated: June 13, 1837 Recorded: August term, 1837.
Burial site is right on the Pennsylvania and West Virginia state line, NE of Wheeling, just W of Washington, PA on Buffalo Creek. Burial ground belongs to Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Lower Buffalo, PA.
Source: History of Washington County, Pennsylvania, page 827:
Robert Cummings lived in what is now Independence township as early as 1792, if not before that time. On March 6th in that year he purchased 120 acres of land of William Spry. Again, Nov. 24, 1800, he bought 200 acres of Thomas Sheirer,part of a tract situated on the waters of Buffalo Creek, for which a warrent was issued Sept. 5, 1787 (=first purchase of this property from the new US Government.)
It is not known upon which purchase Mr. Cummings resided, but the house liyed (sic. lied?) so exactly on the state line that one-half of his house was in Virginia and the other half in Pennsylvania. He built a grist-mill upon his property which became known as "Applegate Hill."
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