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Robert Cushman, II

Male 1664 - 1757  (92 years)

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  • Name Robert Cushman  [1]
    Suffix II
    Birth 4 Oct 1664  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    • Appar. computed from age at d. but must be wrong; prob. b. 1665.
    Gender Male
    AFN GJH8-FG 
    Occupation Yoeman  [4] 
    Death 7 Sep 1757  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Burial Old Burying Ground, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    • Gravestone inscription (partial): "Ae 92Y 11M 3D."
    Person ID I2179  Bisbee
    Last Modified 22 Apr 2019

    Father Thomas Cushman, Jr.,   b. 16 Sep 1637, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Aug 1726, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
    Mother Ruth Howland,   b. 16 Sep 1637, Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 16 Oct 1679, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)
    Marriage 17 Nov 1664  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 5, 6, 7] 
    • Family REF: [A] Comp. by Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families, Vol. 17 (Isaac Allerton), (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998). [B] William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), 78-79.
    Family ID F1174  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Persis Lewis,   b. 15 Jan 1670/71, Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Jan 1743/44, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 72 years)
    Marriage 1696  [1, 4, 8] 
    • Family REF: [A] Comp. by Robert S. Wakefield and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families, Vol. 17 (Isaac Allerton), (General Society of [B] Mayflower Descendants, 1998). [B] William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), 78.
    Children 
     1. Robert Cushman, III,   b. 2 Jul 1698, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Sep 1751, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years)
     2. Ruth Cushman,   b. 25 Mar 1700, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Abigail Cushman,   b. 3 Jul 1701, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. Hannah Cushman,   b. 25 Dec 1704, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     5. Thomas Cushman,   b. 14 Feb 1705/06, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Jun 1768, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years)
     6. Joshua Cushman, Sr.,   b. 14 Oct 1708, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1764, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 55 years)
    +7. Jonathan B. Cushman,   b. 28 Jul 1712, Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Dec 1775, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
    Family ID F979  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

    Family 2 Prudence Sherman,   b. Abt 1674, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 4 Nov 1758 (Age 84 years)
    Marriage 2 Feb 1744/45  [1, 4] 
    Family ID F1173  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 4 Oct 1664 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 7 Sep 1757 - 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

  • Notes 
    • The will of Robert Cushman of Kingston Senr., yoeman, dated 9 Feb 1746/47, codicil 9 May 1749, proved 7 May 1757, names wife Prudence; sons Robert, Thomas, Joshua and Jonathan Cushman; daughters Ruth Perkins, Abigail Leonard and Hannah Washburn. The account of 4 Nov. 1758 mentions a horse given to the widow.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1218] William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), 78.

    2. [S1404] Susan E. Roser, Mayflower Vital Records, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.

    3. [S1456] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS Ancestral File (R) - v4.19, (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2008), AFN GJH8-FG.

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

    5. [S1530] Susan E. Roser, Mayflower Increasings for Three Generations, (1989), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.

    6. [S1567] George Ernest Bowman, Mayflower Reader, (Genealogical Publishing Co Excerpted from Volumes I-VII of the Mayflower Descendant (1899-1905). The Mayflower Reader consists of a comprehensive selection of articles from the first seven volumes of the Mayflower Descendant, an authoritative journal devoted to Pilgrim genealogy and history, discontinued in 1937 and now quite scarce.), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.

    7. [S1456] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS Ancestral File (R) - v4.19, (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2008), AFN JQ1G-8G.

    8. [S1456] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, LDS Ancestral File (R) - v4.19, (Online: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999-2008), AFN 1617-1W8.