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Robert Cushman

Male 1788 - 1856  (67 years)

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  • Name Robert Cushman
    Birth 26 Dec 1788  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male
    Census 2 Aug 1790  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Census 4 Aug 1800  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 6 Aug 1810  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Death 13 Feb 1856  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • Place is tentative.
    Burial Old Burying Ground, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    • Gravestone inscription: "Robert Cushman / died / Feb. 13, 1856 / aged 67 yrs 4 mo. / & 18 days" -- read by Wm. F. Bisbee, 1998.
    Person ID I1750  Bisbee
    Last Modified 15 Mar 2010

    Father Ebenezer Cushman,   b. 10 Jan 1747/48   d. 21 Jan 1827, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    Mother Susannah Holmes,   b. 4 Apr 1750   d. 27 Sep 1803 (Age 53 years)
    Marriage 23 Mar 1775  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Family ID F34  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Mercy Tilson,   b. 28 Sep 1787   d. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage 7 Sep 1811  Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Children 
     1. Louisa Cushman,   b. 1813   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Joseph Cushman,   b. 1814   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Almira Cushman   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. George Cushman   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F7347  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

    Family 2 Betsey Crooker Morton   d. 5 Oct 1856, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage 3 Nov 1822  Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 11] 
    Children 
     1. Mercy Tilson Cushman,   b. 1825   d. 1852 (Age 27 years)
     2. Robert Cushman,   b. 1827   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Betsey Morton Cushman,   b. 1829   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F962  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 2 Aug 1790 - Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 4 Aug 1800 - Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsCensus - 6 Aug 1810 - Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 7 Sep 1811 - Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 3 Nov 1822 - Carver, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 13 Feb 1856 - Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Old Burying Ground, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Sources 
    1. [S1342] William T. Davis, editor, Cushman, Ebenezer (I47) Family: Genealogical Register, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985, p. 77.).

    2. [S1341] Margaret J. Bisbee, Cushman, Ebenezer (I47): Family Bible List, (Erie, Pennsylvania. Self published, 1974: pp 1-2.).

    3. [S1340] Cushman, Ebenezer (I47): Last Will and Testament, (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, Plymouth County Probate on Microfilm, Vol. 63, 503-4, Ebenezer Cushman Last Will & Testament).

    4. [S1276] Cushman, Ebenezer (I47): 1790 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2000): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M637, roll 4; page 1, column 2, line 7; image downloaded 2005), 1790-Kingston.1.jpg.

    5. [S1277] Cushman, Ebenezer (I47): 1800 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M32, roll 16; page 4, line 3; Ancestry image 4/4 downloaded 8/21/2008), 1800-Kingston.4.jpg.

    6. [S1278] Cushman, Ebenezer (I47): 1810 US Census, (www.ancestry.com (2004): National Archives and Records Administration micropublication M252, roll 21; page 240, line 16; Ancestry image 2/7 downloaded 8/14/2008), 1810-Kingston.2.jpg.

    7. [S2] Grave Marker, Old Burying Ground, Kingston, Mass., "Robert Cushman / die d / Feb. 13, 1856 / aged 67 yrs 4 mo. / & 18 days".

    8. [S1237] Frederic W. Bailey, editor, Early Massachusetts Marriages prior to 1800, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1968.), II: 37.
      Under Kingston marriages: "Ebenezer Cushman & Susannah Holmes - Mar. 23, 1775"

    9. [S1343] Henry Wiles Cushman, Genealogy of the Cushman Family, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1885.), 153, ref # 175.
      JONATHAN, [41] of Kingston, had chil.
      175 I EBENEZER, (509) b. 10 Jan. 1748, lived in Kingston, m. 1st Susanna Holmes 23 Mch. 1775. She was b. 4 Apl. 1750 and d. 29 Sept. 1803. He m. 2d Kesiah, dau. Jonathan and Martha Benson, 4 Mch. 1805. She was his cousin, and aunt to the wife of his son Ebenezer. She was b. at Bridgewater, 27 Sept. 1761, and d. 16 Feb. 1823. He d. 21 Jan. 1827.

    10. [S684] Mercer V. Tilson, Tilson Genealogy, (The Memorial Press, 1911. This Book contains the history and genealogy of the Tilson family of Plymouth), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com, CS71.T596782.

    11. [S779] Vital Records of Carver, Mass., (New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1911), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.