Dawes Cemetery
Place research page generated from the structured place spine and the companion place markdown.
Cummington farm and burial context for Benjamin Gurney G9 after the 1770 move from Abington, with later Amos and Willis Gurney family continuity.
Linked ancestors
- G7 Willis Gurney individual geography
- G8 Amos Gurney landholding / property reference
- G8 Amos Gurney individual geography
- G9 Benjamin Gurney landholding / property reference
- G9 Benjamin Gurney individual geography
Gurney homestead continuity (MACRIS)
Two surviving Cummington houses carry the family’s nineteenth-century continuity, both built by Asa Gurney (b. 1758), son of the direct ancestor Benjamin Gurney (G9) and brother of Amos Gurney (G8):
- [[75-mount-rd-cummington-ma]] (MACRIS CUM.151, built 1808) - the homestead on Mount Road, “the oldest homestead in the town that is still in the original family name,” Gurney-owned into the 1970s.
- [[51-main-st-cummington-ma]] (MACRIS CUM.115, built 1816) - Asa’s village house on the Gurney Main Street land, later the Prof. William Ward Mitchell house.
The CUM.151 Form B independently documents G9’s founding of the Cummington Gurney line: the 5 November 1770 purchase of Lot 59-1 (the hill) and the 1787 farm exchange with Philip Shaw, after which Gurney moved to 100 acres of the southerly Minot Grant in the village (parcel No. 404) while Shaw took the hill (No. 302). G9, both his wives, and his son Benjamin are buried at Dawes Cemetery, Cummington.