Thomas B. CUSHING

26 Dec 1663 - 3 Oct 1740

• BIRTH: 26 Dec 1663, Scituate, Plymouth, MA
• DEATH: 3 Oct 1740, Boston, Suffolk, MA

• MARRIAGE: 17 Oct 1687, Boston or Hingham, MA

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

[828] Thomas lived in Boston. in 1690 he was admitted to the Second Church there, inthe records of which his name is written: Cushiou". Selectman of Boston in 1723, and representative of the King's State Council from 1724 to 1725. In 1725 hewas one of the opponents of the explanatory Charter of King George I. Shortly after his death, in the Suffolk Probate Records of that period. The Family Coatof Arms is appraised at twenty shillings.

THOMAS, Boston, s. of first John,m. 17 Oct. 1687, Deborah, d. of John Thaxter, had John, b. 6 Sept. 1688; Eliz.bapt. 8 Nov. 1691; Thomas, 4 Feb. 1694, H. C. 1711; Margaret, 19 July 1696; Deborah, 18 June 1699; Jonathan, 16 Mar. 1701; Hannah, 17 Jan. 1703; and Samuel, 14 Jan. 1705; was of ar. co. 1709, and mem. of the Counc. His w. d. 16 Feb. 1712, and he m. 8 Dec. foll. Mercy, wid. of Joseph Bridgham, d. of John Wensley, outliv. him, and d. 3 Oct. 1740, aged 72.

Military: He was Ensign in 1691, and member in 1709 of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company.

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 29.
2. Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionaryof the First Settlers of New
England, Originally published 1860.

"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, Thomas (1663-) & 1/wf Deborah THAXTER (-1712); 17 Oct 1687; Boston/Hingham"

"American Marriage Records Before 1699"
William Montgomery Clemens
Pompton Lakes, NJ, 1926
"Thomas CUSHING, Deborah Thaxter, 17 October 1687, Boston, Mass."

(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])