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Charity Benson

Female 1783 - 1840  (57 years)

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  • Name Charity Benson  [1]
    Birth 26 Jan 1783  North Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Female
    Death 11 Aug 1840  Paris, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Person ID I1780  Bisbee
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

    Father David Benson   d. Yes, date unknown
    Mother Charity Haywood   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F7346  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ebenezer Cushman,   b. 19 Jul 1782, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Nov 1854 (Age 72 years)
    Marriage 29 May 1805  [2] 
    Children 
     1. Albert Cushman,   b. 28 Feb 1806, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     2. Charity Cushman,   b. 18 Nov 1807, Kingston, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     3. Cordelia Caroline Cushman,   b. 7 Apr 1810, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
     4. Keziah Cushman,   b. 14 Sep 1812, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1877 (Age 64 years)
     5. Polly Thompson Cushman,   b. 26 May 1816, Paris, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Dec 1834 (Age 18 years)
     6. Nelson Cushman,   b. 13 Jul 1819   d. Yes, date unknown
     7. Susanna Cushman,   b. 16 May 1823, Paris, Oxford, Maine, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F958  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Jun 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 26 Jan 1783 - North Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Aug 1840 - Paris, Oxford, Maine, USA Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • From History of Oxford, Me, p168:
      "Mrs. Charity, wife of [Ebenezer] Cushman, was killed by a horse August 11. She was returning from a lecture on Paris Hill and drove into a shed to get out of the rain. The shed was too low for her to sit upon the seat as she drove in, and she seated herself in the bottom of the wagon, in front of the seat, having her umbrella in her hand. The horse was frightened and kicked, she receiving the blow in her head. She died instantly." [3]

  • Sources 
    1. [S1234] William T. Davis, editor, Genealogical Register of Plymouth Families, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1985.), 77.
      Cushman, Ebenezer, Kingston, son of Jonathan, M, 1775, Susanna, d. of Josiah Holmes, and had:
      Lydia, 1775;
      Sylvester, 1777, M Hannah Brown;
      Joseph, 1780;
      Ebenezer, 1782, M Charity Benson and Celia Sampson;
      Susanna, M Levi Morton;
      Ruth, M Barsillai Holmes;
      Elizabeth, 1786;
      Robert, 1788;
      Harvey, 1791;

    2. [S1238] William Berry Lapham and Silas P. Maxim, History of Paris, Maine, (Paris, Me.: Printed for the authors, 1884.), 571-2.
      EBENEZER CUSHMAN of another branch, was b. in Kingston, Mass., July 19, 1782. He was a twin with Susanna, and was of the seventh generation from Robert. He m. May 19, Charity, dau. of David and Charity (Haywood) Benson of Bridgewater, b. Jan. 26, 1783. He was a mason by trade. He moved to Paris, Feb. 1815, and settled in the Mountain district near Streaked mountain. Childre:
      ALBERT, b. Kingston, Feb. 28, 1806, m. Rosetta Curtis.
      CHARITY, b. Kingston, Nov. 18, 1807, m. Alonzo Crafts, s. Hebron.
      CAROLINE, b. Kingston, April 7, 1810, m. Lysander Ricker, s. Hebron.
      KEZIAH, b. Kingston, Sept. 14, 1812, m. ____ Thompson, s. Dover.
      POLLY THOMPSON, b. Paris, May 26, 1816, d. Dec. 29, 1834.
      NELSON, b. Paris, July 13, 1819, m. Julia Curtis, s. North Bridgewater.
      SUSANNA, b. Paris, May 16, 1823, m. James Tarr, s. Monson.
      The mother was killed by the kick of a horse, (see Annals) Aug. 11, 1840; m. 2d, Aug 1841, Mrs. Celia Sampson of Leeds. The father died Nov. 26, 1854.

    3. [S1238] William Berry Lapham and Silas P. Maxim, History of Paris, Maine, (Paris, Me.: Printed for the authors, 1884.), 168.