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[email protected] April 30, 2004 Thomas Cummins, ca. 1744-1797/1798 of Duplin County, NC “Cumming, Cummings, Cuming, Cumine, Cummine: The Once powerful family of Comyn or Cumyn are believed to have come from the town of Comines near Lille on the frontier between France and Belgium, etc.” 1 The Cummins family about which this account deals is first found in and near Duplin County, NC. Thom. Cummings was a petit juror Dec. 9, 1741 in New Hanover County, NC 2 “White Oak, in Onslow County [North Carolina]. Epheram Swift, deceased. Will November 4, 1744...Witness Thos. Cummins. 3 “Page 29 Duplin County List of Capt. Stallin’s District taken by Danl Teachy & returned April 1786, Page 1.” “Page 119 Onslow County ‘A list of soles [souls] of the Upper So. W. Dist. Taken by me the 4 th of April 1787. Errows Excepted.’ D. Shepard page 1 Thos. Cummins WM 21-60: 1; WM under 21 & above 60: 4; WF all ages: 3.” 4 From the Duplin County, NC wills is found the will, probated January Term of Court, 1798, of Thos. Cummins and mentions sons Thomas, Benjamin, Hugh, William, George, Aaron and James. 5 1 The Surnames of Scotland, by George Fraser Black, The New York Public Library, 1946, page 191. 2 New Hanover County Court Minutes 1738-1769; Abstracted, Compiled and Edited by Alexander McDonald Walker, 1958, page 28. 3 Abstract of North Carolina Wills , by J. Bryan Grimes, Raleigh, N. C. 1910 (Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, MD, 1967; page 368.