John Cushman

John Cushman

• Birth: 13 August 1690 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
• Death: 9 May 1760
• Father: Eleazer Cushman (1656-1723)
• Mother: Elizabeth Coombs (1662-1723)
• Spouse / partner: Joanna Pratt (1690-1747) Wedding: 19 January 1715 Plympton, Plymouth County

Descendant of Mayflower passengers Isaac Allerton and Mary (Norris) Allerton

Children

A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of ... By Henry Wyles Cushman. Page 139-140. GoogleBooks

JOHN [31] had chil.

• 95 I John,5 (328) b , m. Deborah Raymond 3 Feb. 1746. He was baptized and entered into full communion with the Plympton chh. 4 Apr. 1742.
• 96 II Eleazcr,5 (33l) b. about 1726, in. Abigail Parsons. She d. about 1805. He was baptized at Plympton 17 Oct. 1740. He removed from Springfield to Willington, Ct., where he d. in 1797, ae. near 70.1. 1 It is not absolutely certain that Eleazar was the soul of John (31) but was probably so.
• 97 III Charles,5 (344) b. at Plymouth; m. and brought up his family at Norwich, Conn., where he worked in iron and carried on a forge; removed to Milford, remained there but one year; thence to Bennington, Vt., and subsequently to Rutland, Vt., where he d. at the residence of his son Isaac, Sept. 1791. "His wf. was an English woman by the name of Mary Harvey, whose history is a romance. Her father was an Episcopal clergyman of London, with a large fortune and title blood, but a younger son. Her mother d. when she was young and her step mother treated her ill, — as step mothers often do. Her father resolved upon separating them, and entrusted her, with all her mother's valuables and a sum of money to be invested for her education, to the care of a gentleman, who engaged to place her with some friends in Scotland. The gentleman proved a scoundrel, took possession of all her effects and landed her and left her at service in America, utterly destitute. A young girl, alone and unfriended, her story found sympathizers, but none to undertake to right her wrongs. Her father, getting no tidings of her, died, as she learned, of grief; while she m. Charles Cushman, the 'Forgeman,' as the title runs in some of the old papers of the day. Her husband and herself formed many plans, wrote many letters, and made many resolves, all having in view the recovery of her property. Several years since, her grandson, John Cushman, (who lived at Ellisburg, N. Y.,) was fitted out for England, with that aim; but waiting in New York city for a ship, he took a fever, and after long suffering, returned home. Nothing was ever obtained of her property from England." She d. at the house of her son Frederick, in Georgia, Vt., Jan. 1810.

References

• https://familypedia.wikia.org/wiki/John_Cushman_(1690-1760)_ cites
• History of the Allerton family in the United States : 1585 to 1885, and a genealogy of the descendants of Isaac Allerton, Mayflower pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass. Fascinating story of this family of Mayflower descendants that helped settle the new world.
• Cushman in Plymouth County, Massachusetts - first families
• A Historical and biographical genealogy of the Cushmans: the descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the year 1617 to 1855 by Cushman, Henry Wyles, 1805-1863. Page 129. Archive.Org