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Ruth Cushman

Female 1784 - 1828  (43 years)

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  • Name Ruth Cushman
    Birth 26 Oct 1784  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Female
    Census 2 Aug 1790  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Census 4 Aug 1800  Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Death 26 Feb 1828  [3] 
    Person ID I1749  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 Barsillai Holmes   d. Yes, date unknown
    Marriage 28 Nov 1805  [9, 10] 
    Children 
     1. Susan Holmes,   b. 1807   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Hasadiah Sturdevant Holmes,   b. 1809   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Josiah Holmes,   b. 1811   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Solomon Maynard Holmes,   b. 1814   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Richard Holmes,   b. 1816   d. Yes, date unknown
     6. George H. Holmes,   b. 1819   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Salley Ann Holmes,   b. 1824   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Ruth Holmes,   b. 1826   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F961  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 26 Oct 1784 - Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    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
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Notes 
    • Henry Wyles Cushman give Ruth's date of death as 16 Feb 1828.

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

    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. [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.

    6. [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.

    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. [S1218] William T. Davis, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore, 1985), p 137.

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