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Harvey Cushman

Male 1791 - 1828  (37 years)

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  • Name Harvey Cushman
    Birth 21 Mar 1791  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male
    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 9 Jul 1828  [2] 
    Person ID I1751  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  [7, 8] 
    Family ID F34  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Prince   d. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage 3 Nov 1815  [9] 
    Children 
     1. Eveline Cushman,   b. 1818   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Mercy Harvey Cushman,   b. 1821   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. James Harvey Cushman,   b. 1824   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Ardelia Prince Cushman,   b. 1827   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F7345  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 21 Mar 1791 - 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
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  • Notes 
    • Ebenezer Cushman bequeathes to his son as follows: "I give to my two sons, Robert & Harvey Cushman, my homestead farm with the buildings thereon, to them, their heirs, & assigns forever, to be divided as follows[:] beginning at the fence at the Widow Sarah Washburn's land, running by the fence to the orchard thence by the orchard near a white oak tree, thence by the fence to the road by the fence that comes to the bars that next the wood, by the fence & road to the corner of the fence thence to the land the southwest corner of Barnabas Hedge's land thence by his land to the road that goes to Wolf Pond, & by the road to the land of Josiah Holmes and by Josiah Holmes' land to the land of Asa Cook thence by Cook's land to stake & stones in the swamp thence easterly course to stake and stones where the fence goes into the pond by the pond till it comes to crotched maple tree thence easterly to stake & stones standing by the fence straight course to the land of Col. John Thomas. The northerly part I give to my son Robert, to have & to hold to him, his heirs & assigns forever. Also I give to my two sons Robert & Harvey all my notes and money on hand and wearing apparel.

      "I give to my son Harvey the southerly part to have & to hold to him & his heirs & assigns forever - each one to have a right to pass & repass through each other's land.

      "I give my desk to my son Robert and he must pay Harvey two dollars.

      "I give all my other Estate, real or personal, or [word ineligible] of whatever name or nature, & wherever to be found, and not before disposed of, to my two sons Robert & Harvey before mentioned, to them, their heirs & assigns forever and it is the true intent and meaning hereof that my two sons Robert & Harvey pay all the legacies therein given, also to pay all my just debts and funeral charges."

      Harvey, July 9, 1828, 37 yrs. 3 mos. 18 dys. (Ancient Kingston Burial Ground)

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

    2. [S1485] Henry Wiles Cushman, Cushman, Ebenezer (I47): Genealogy of the Cushmans, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1885, p. 239.).

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

    4. [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).

    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. [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"

    8. [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.

    9. [S2177] Henry Wiles Cushman, Cushman Genealogy, (Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1885), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.