Theophilus CUSHING

BEF 4 Nov 1584 - 24 Mar 1679

• BIRTH: BEF 4 Nov 1584, Hingham, Norfolk, England
• DEATH: 24 Mar 1679, Hingham, Plymouth, MA
• BAPTISM: 4 Nov 1584, Hardingham, Norfolk, England

                                             _John (Cushying) CUSHING _+
                  _Thomas (Cushyn) CUSHING _|
                 |                          |_Alice CLIVE _____________+
 _Peter CUSHING _|
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|                |_Ursula (CUSHING) ________|
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|--Theophilus CUSHING 
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|_Susan HAWES ___|
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[793] Theophilus came to New England in 1633, on the ship Griffin, in company with Governor Haynes and the eminent Puritan divines, Cotton and Hooker. For a time heresided on Hayne's farm with his friend (Afterwards the celebrated Governor Haynes) as his adviser and secretary. When his younger brother Matthew, followinghis example, came to New England, Theophilus, who appears never to have married, settled with him in Hingham, Massachusetts. He was blind for 25 years beforehis death, which occurred 24 March 1679. He was said to have lived to the ageof 100 years.

Sources:
1. The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (An account of the Ancestors and Descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638) by James Cushing, The Perrault Printing Co - Montreal, 1905. First Edition, 1877, by Lemuel Cushing, D1881 (Finished by his family) Pg 20.
2. Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860.
3. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Robert Charles Anderson, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995, Page: 501

(Cushing and associated family lines from a GEDCOM at the excellent
"Genealogy of the Cushing Family - Online Version 2003"
[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cushinc/]
by Warren R. Cushing [wrcushing@yahoo.com])