Benjamin Cushman

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

Benjamin Cushman

• BIRTH before 2 Mar 1691 Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• DEATH 17 Oct 1770 (aged 79) Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Hillcrest Cemetery Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA PLOT R3 P8 S8
• Son of Thomas Cushman, Jr. and Abigail Titus
• Husband of 1) Sarah Eaton 2) Sarah Pipheny
• Father of Jabez Cushman, Caleb, Solomon, Jerusha, Benjamin, Jr., Sarah, Abigail, Thomas and Huldah Cushman.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cushman-245

Benjamin, son of Thomas and Abigail (Titus) (Fuller) Cushman was baptized in Plymouth, MA on March 2, 1691 and died in Plympton, MA on October 17, 1770 at the age of 78 years.

He married first Sarah Eaton, daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Coombs) Eaton, on January 8, 1712 in Plympton, MA. She was born in Plymouth, MA on October 20, 1695 and died in Plympton on September 13, 1737 in her 42nd year. She is a descendant of Pilgrims Francis Eaton and Degory Priest.

He married second Sarah (Phipeny) Bell in Plympton, MA on March 14, 1739; John Bell’s widow. She was born about 1694 and died in Plympton, MA on January 16, 1783 at the age of 89 years.

Family

New England Families, Genealogical and Memorial: A Record of the ..., Volume 2 edited by William Richard Cutter. Page 581. GoogleBooks

IV) Benjamin, son of Thomas (2) Cushman, was born in 1691, baptized March 1, 1691, died at Plympton, October 17, 1770. He and both of his wives were members of the church at Plympton. He lived on a part of his father's farm. He married (first), January 8, 1712, Sarah Eaton, who died at Plympton, and he married (second) Widow Sarah Bell, March 14, 1738-39.

Children by first wife:

• Jabez, born August 11, 1713;
• Caleb, mentioned below;
• Solomon, September 9, 1717;
• Jerusha, December 7, 1719, died young;
• Benjamin, May 25, 1722;
• Sarah, September 26, 1725;
• Abigail, November 22, 1727;
• Thomas, October 11, 1730;
• Jerusha, October 18, 1732;
• Huldah, April 6, 1735.

References

• The Mayflower Descendant: A Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim ..., Volume 2 GoogleBooks
• Mayflower Families Vol. 17 p. 14, 35-36
• https://famouskin.com/family-group.php?name=85340+benjamin+cushman cites
• 1 Cushman, Henry Wyles, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan . . ., Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1855), 125-126, 132-134, Ancestry.com (Online Database).
• 2 Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 33-34.
• 3 Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 14, 35-36.
• http://dunhamwilcox.net/me/me_bio_cushman.htm
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/12509739/benjamin-cushman