Name: Genealogy of the Cushing Famil

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  1. Hon. Lieutenant Colonel John Cushing: Birth: 28 Apr 1662 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts. Death: 19 Jan 1738 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

  2. Hon. Thomas B. Cushing: Birth: 26 Dec 1663 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 3 Oct 1740 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts

  3. Matthew B. Cushing: Birth: 23 Feb 1665 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 18 May 1715 in Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts

  4. Jeremiah Cushing: Birth: 13 Jul 1666 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 30 May 1710 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

  5. James M. Cushing: Birth: 27 Jan 1668 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 19 Sep 1736 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

  6. Hon. Captain Joshua Cushing: Birth: 27 Aug 1670 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 26 May 1750 in Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts

  7. Sarah Cushing: Birth: 26 Aug 1671 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 24 Sep 1723 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

  8. Rev Caleb Cushing: Birth: 6 Jan 1673 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 25 Jan 1752 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts

  9. Deborah Cushing: Birth: 14 Sep 1674 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 18 Oct 1770 in Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island

  10. Mary Cushing: Birth: 30 Aug 1676 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 8 Mar 1698 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

  11. Hon. Joseph Cushing: Birth: 23 Sep 1677 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 12 Dec 1760 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts

  12. Lieutenant Benjamin Cushing: Birth: 4 Feb 1679 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Death: 1702 in Barbados, West Indies


Sources
1. Title:   GENEALOGY OF THE CUSHING FAMILY
Page:   pg 22, 24-25
Source:   S-2045090144
Author:   James Stevenson Cushing
Publication:   The Perrault Printing Co - Montreal, 1905; First Edition, 1877, by Lemuel Cushing (Finished by his family)
2. Title:   Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
Page:   x
Source:   S-2043916032
Author:   Joseph Savage
Publication:   Originally published 1860
3. Title:   History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family 1254-1937
Page:   x
Source:   S-2043328256
Author:   L. Vernon Briggs, 1938
4. Title:   History of Scituate, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1831
Page:   254
Source:   S-2043327028
Author:   Samuel Deane
5. Title:   General Register of First Settlers of New England
Page:   74
Source:   S-2043326864
6. Title:   Findagrave.com
Page:   Old Ship Cemetery (Hingham Cemetery), Hingham, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Source:   S-2043915472

Notes
a. Note:   is uncle Peter Cushing in London, and buying clothes, a bed tick and a pair of steel yards there, as well as travelling to Norwich and Hingham in Norfolk, where he visited other relatives .... This trip may represent the beginnings of John Cushing's long career as a merchant, town official and justice of the peace.
  Also in 1657 he, together with Matthias Briggs, purchased for 120 pounds the Varsall Estate in Scituate of Capt. John Vassall, son of William Vassall, to whom it was laid out 1634, which consisted of 120 acres with house and barns. He did not move there, however, until about 1662. The land on which the farm was situated was always known as (Bell House Neck), a name given to the place in consequence of a bell that hung at the house there, for a century, to give an alarm to the neighboring country in case of the approach of Indians. In 1663 he was surveyor of highways and in 1667, receiver of excises. He was deputy to the colony in 1674, and was often reelected. In 1673, he was on the committee for dividing Scituate lands; and in 1676, was chosen to report to the Government a statement of all services of the soldiers of Scituate in the war with King Philip. Selectman from 1674 to 1686 inclusive, and County Magistrate (Plymouth Co.) 1685 to 1692. Assistant of the Old Colony Government of Plymouth Colony 1689 to 1691, and representative to the General Court at Boston in 1692 (the first year after the two colonies, Plymouth and Massachusetts, were united), and for several succeeding years to 1697, Member of the Council 1706 and 1707. He was also Colonel of the Plymouth Regiment.
 Occupation: Farmer, exporter, ship owner,
 1692 First Representative from Scituate, Mass.
 CEMETERY:
  <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cushinc/photos/john_cushing_1627-1708.jpg">John Cushing 1627-1708</a>
 
Note:   John Cushing, Hon. Colonel (1627 - 1708), aged eleven in 1638, came with his parents Matthew and Nazareth and four siblings to New England. John returned to England briefly in 1657-1658, visiting h

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