Lt. Benjamin Cushing

ID: I301724

Name: Benjamin Cushing

Sex: M

Birth: 4 FEB 1677/78 in Scituate, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

Note: Became a Mechant of Barbadoes.

Father: John Cushing b: 1627 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

Mother: Sarah Hawke b: 1 AUG 1641 in Hingham, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts

——  Benjamin was a merchant in Boston. He was a member of the Honorable Artillery in 1700 and at that time Lieutenant in another corps. He gave a Power of Attorney dated at Barbadoes, 1702, whence it is inferred he did business there. He was unmarried and left no family.

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