 1690 - Aft 1760 (> 70 years)
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| Name |
John CUSHMAN |
| Birth |
13 Aug 1690 |
Plymouth, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Reference Number |
60 |
| Reference Number |
663613 |
| Reference Number |
681967 |
| WWW |
https://www.WikiTree.com/wiki/Cushman-30 |
| Death |
Aft 9 May 1760 |
Plympton, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| Person ID |
I131 |
Gummer |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
| Father |
Eleazer CUSHMAN, b. 20 Feb 1657, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony d. Aft 1733, Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay (Age > 77 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth COOMBS, b. 30 Nov 1662, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony d. Aft 14 Oct 1723, Plympton, Plymouth County, Province of Massachusetts Bay (Age > 61 years) |
| Marriage |
12 Jan 1687 |
Plymouth, Plymouth Colony |
| Family ID |
F28 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Joanna PRATT, b. 26 Oct 1690 d. Aft 16 Nov 1747 (Age > 57 years) |
| Marriage |
19 Jan 1715 |
Plympton, Plymouth, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| Family ID |
F206 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
1 Aug 2024 |
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| Photos |
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Cushman-661 and Cushman-30 appear to represent the same person because: Clear duplicate. |
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| Notes |
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{{Mayflower Family Member}}
== Biography == John Cushman, child of [[Coombs-44|Elizabeth (Coombs) Cushman]] and [[Cushman-113|Eleazer Cushman]], born at Plymouth, Plymouth, Plymouth Colony, 13 Aug 1690,[van Antwerp, Lee D (comp.). Vital Records of Plymouth Massachusetts to the year 1850. Ruth Wilder Sherman (ed.) (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1993[https://www.americanancestors.org/DB190/i/14012/12/253509912 p. 12 AmericanAncestors]][Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2] [Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988][Stover, Margaret Harris (re-editor). Mayflower Families Through Five Generations. Volume Eight Second edition. Family of Degory Priest. Originally compiled by Mrs. Charles Delmar Townsend; Robert S. Wakefield, FASG; Margaret Harris Stover. (General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2008) pp. 51, 145] was a descendant of Mayflower passenger [[Priest-39|Degory Priest]].
On 19 Jan 1715 in Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts he married [[Pratt-3930| Joanah Prat/Pratt]], dau of John and Margaret (Kimball) Pratt.
[Vital records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the year 1850. (Boston: NEHGS, 1923) [https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofpl00plym/page/300/mode/2up p. 301]]
She was born at Plymouth 26 Oct 1690 and was living 16 Nov 1747.
["Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G97D-NHP4?cc=2018320&wc=M6BX-W38%3A337877001 : 20 May 2014), Probate records 1730-1733 and 1839-1845 vol 6-6U > image 12 of 589; State Archives, Boston.]
A couple of years later, 11 March 1717/8, John Pratt, of Plympton, yeoman, his father in law, sold to John Cushman of Plymouth, husbandman 106 acres in Plympton.["Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Z7-RDZZ?cc=2106411&wc=MCB2-V6D%3A361612701%2C361628801 : 22 May 2014), Plymouth > Deeds 1717-1720 vol 13-14 > image 266 of 545; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. LR 14:8, 9 ] Cushman mortgaged the land 28 May 1722 and sold off the land in pieces 27 Feb 1721/2 and 18 Feb 1722/3. His wife didn't sign any of these deeds although she was still living.["Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99Z7-JDDP?cc=2106411&wc=MCB2-JNP%3A361612701%2C361626101 : 22 May 2014), Plymouth > Deeds 1720-1724 vol 15-17 > image 309 of 709; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Plymouth LR 16:51, 52]["Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9Z7-J8YY?cc=2106411&wc=MCB2-JNP%3A361612701%2C361626101 : 22 May 2014), Plymouth > Deeds 1720-1724 vol 15-17 > image 566 of 709; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Plymouth LR 17:88]["Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Z7-RCZK?cc=2106411&wc=MCB2-NZ9%3A361612701%2C361623601 : 22 May 2014), Plymouth > Deeds 1724-1726 vol 18-20 > image 370 of 679; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Plymouth LR 115-116]
John Cushman was poor and landless. The town of Plympton frequently gave him aid starting 12 Oct 1741 and ending 9 May 1760 when he was still living. The town paid his wife's doctor bills 16 Nov 1747 and then she is no longer in the records.
=== Children ===Born at Plympton[Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2]
*An unidentified [[Cushman-889|James Cushman]] who married at Lebanon, Connecticut, 8 May 1745 Levina Downer probably belongs to this family.
== Sources ==
See also:* Robert S. Wakefield, FASG, Margaret Harris Stover, CG, comps., '''''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Isaac Allerton, Volume 17''''', (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2013), p. 17, 49-50
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