Individual Details

Probate

David Comings did not leave a will and his estate entered probate 6 May 1819 with Jonathan Wyman as administrator at the request of widow Phebe. Real estate was a 67-acre homestead valued at $1,675 and 50 acres of pasture/woodland valued at $750. Personal estate was valued at $1,090.84. Widow Phebe was allowed $200 in value from the personal estate. On 19 January 1826, Phebe petitioned to have the dower set to her which was done on 31 March 1826.1

Probate
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1 New Hampshire County, Cheshire County, Estate of David Cummings, Cornish, 1819, No. 282

Biography

On page 116 in the History of Cornish
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081779948&seq=138

Cummings genealogy has children
https://archive.org/details/cummingsgenealog00cumm/page/146/mode/2up?q=wyman

Property

On 17 March 1798, David Cumings and his wife Phebe were of Nottingham West when they sold property in Pelham (similarly described as the property Phebe received in the distribution from her father’s estate) to John Wyman the 3rd of Pelham for payment of one hundred dollars. On 5 April 1805, David and Phebe Cumings were of Nottingham West when they sold 15 acres of pasture and woodland in Pelham to John Caller for payment of $223.12.1

Two deeds to look at – 183:433, 181:170 – these are Rockingham County
183:433 – 1798 – David and Phebe sell to John Wyman; the deed just before is Jesse Wyman selling to John Wyman – this appears to be the same lot that Phebe received in the estate distribution from her father’s estate
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLR-H9CN-S?i=688&cat=429586
181:170 – 1805 – David and Phebe selling something
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSLR-H9H3-G?i=91&cat=429586


1 New Hampshire Land Records, Rockingham County, 183:433, 181:170