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Desire Cushman

Female 1668 - 1762  (94 years)

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  • Name Desire Cushman
    Birth 1668  Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    • Birth year calculated from age at death.
    Gender Female
    Death 8 Feb 1762  Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Burial Tyler Point Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Her tombstone reads: "Mrs. Desire Kent, Widow of Mr. Samuel Kent, of Barrington, Was the first English Woman's grand Daughter on New England." --A. T. K. Miller.
    Person ID I8477  Bisbee
    Last Modified 31 May 2010

    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  [2, 3, 4, 5] 
    • 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 Samuel Kent,   b. 1668, Block Island, , Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 May 1737, Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    Marriage 17 Dec 1686  Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7363  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 6 Dec 2009

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1668 - Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 17 Dec 1686 - Swansea, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 8 Feb 1762 - Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Tyler Point Cemetery, Barrington, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA Link to Google Earth
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    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Sources 
    1. [S1221] William Richard Cutter, New England Families, (Third Series, 1915), cited by Anne Thomas Kelley Miller at www.tracingroots.com.

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

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

    4. [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.

    5. [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.