Joshua CUSHING

27 Aug 1670 - 26 May 1750

• BIRTH: 27 Aug 1670, Scituate, Plymouth, MA
• CHRISTENING: 16 Oct 1670, Scituate, Plymouth, MA
• DEATH: 26 May 1750, Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• MARRIAGE: 31 May 1699, Marshfield, Plymouth, MA

                                           _Peter CUSHING _+
                       _Matthew CUSHING __|
                      |                   |_Susan HAWES ___
 _John (Col) CUSHING _|
|                     |                    _Henry PITCHER _
|                     |_Nazareth PITCHER _|
|                                         |_Sarah BOND ____
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|--Joshua CUSHING 
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|                                          ________________
|                      _Matthew HAWKE ____|
|                     |                   |________________
|_Sarah HAWKE ________|
                      |                    ________________
                      |_Margaret NELSON __|
                                          |________________

[833] Occupation: Owned a Saw Mill and Dam in 1715

Joshua lived first in Marshfield. In 1711, when Pembroke was incorporated, he is mentioned as one of the heads of families. He was twice a Representative; was Captain of the Militia, firstJustice of the Peace in Pembroke 1711, and later its second town clerk. He lived first in Marshfield, later in Pembroke, and before 1725 moved to Kingston. His gravestone in Pembroke reads "dyed 26 May, 1750, in ye 80 yeare."

On 31 May 1699 when Joshua was 28, he married Mary Bacon, daughter of Samuel Bacon (25February 1651 - 18 February 1681) and Mary Jacob (30 March 1656 - 15 April 1737), in Hingham, Massachusetts. Mary Bacon was born on 7 February 1680 in Hingham, Massachusetts.

Sources:
1. The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (An account of the Ancestors and Descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in1638) by James Cushing, The Perrault Printing Co - Montreal, 1905. First Edition, 1877, by Lemuel Cushing, D1881 (Finished by his family) Pg 31.
2. History of Ship Building on North River, by L. Vernon Briggs, 1889.
3. L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937, 1938, Three volumes.

"History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts"
George Lincoln, et. al., Hingham, MA; 1893 pp. 151-152
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mahingha/history/contents.html

"New England Marriages Prior to 1700"
Clarence A. Torrey, Baltimore, MD, 1985
p. 199
"CUSHING, Joshua & Mary BACON; 31 May 1699; Scituate"

(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])