tor, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall Receive the same by the mighty power of God: and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life: hauing Giueen to my Son Isaac Cushman Deceassed his full portion in Land to his full sattisfaction: and as consarning my Son Ichabod Cushman he has had his portion already to his full satisfaction yet notwithstanding for the Love and fatherly affection which I Bare towards him I Giue to him the fift part of my books and twenty shilling to be paid to him out of my mouable Estat. Imprimis I giue to my Grandson Nathaniel Cushman my share of Seder Swamp Lying in Colchesster Swamp: and also concaring the Rest of my mouable Estate besides what is aboue expresed I Giue in maner following: imprimis I Giue to my Daughter Rebecah Michel one Quartter part of my moueable. Estate besides what is aboue expresed: item I Giue to the children of my Daughter Mary Waterman deceased one Quartter part of my moueable estate besides what is aboue expressed. Item I Giue to the children of my daughter Sarah Briant deseased one Quartter part of my moueable Estate besides what is aboue expressed-item I Giue to my Daughter Phear Sturteuant one Quarter part of my moueable Estate besides what is aboue. expresed and if it should pleas God to take away by Death ether or both my Daughters which are now suruiuing, before my self, then what I haue giue to them shall belong to their children: and my will Is that my son in law Robert Waterman Shal be my executor to this my Last will and Testament: to Reciue all Depts due to the Estate and also to pay all depts due from the Estate and funeral charges before any deuition be made of the aboue said perticulars amongst my children and Gran children and I do hereby Requst my Loueing friends Capt Benony Lucas and Deak Dauid Bosworth to be ouerseers of this my Last will and testament and to be assistant unto my aforesaid executor in the performance of the same: In witnes wherof I haue hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty fift day of October one Thousand Seuen hundred twenty and Seuen.

Signed, sealed and Declared by the aboue said Isaac Cushman Seneir, to be his will and Testament, in the presents of us.

IGNATIUS CUSHING,

BENONY LUCAS,

DAVID BOZWORTH.

The foregoing will was "approved and allowed" by Hon. Isaac Winslow, Judge of Probate for Plymouth County, 30 Oct. 1732, and Robert Waterman (son-in-law of Rev. Isaac C.) was appointed Executor of the same.

The following is the Inventory of his estate:

An Inventory of the personal Estate of the Reuer'd Mr. Isaac Cushman, Late of Plymton Dec'sd taken by us the subscribers Nov'er 2d, 1732.

To wages and dishes and barrels and other Rough Lumber,

09 17 9

04 07 0

00 9

0

03 1 0

00 13

0

05 13

0

03 0

0

00 10

6

00 4

02 11

03 12

By the above it appears that Rev. Isaac Cushman had quite an estate, considering how money was then estimated.

Of his wife Rebeckah (so it is spelled in the original record) Rickard, we know but little. She was a member of quite a large family that settled in Plympton. Three of the name of Rickard were among those who joined the church at Plympton at its organization in 1698. They were probably her relatives, perhaps her father and mother. She was twenty-one years of age,

and he was twenty-seven at the date of their marriage: she being six years older than her husband. She died five years before him, at the age of seventy-three.

From the fact that she was the wife of such a pious and excellent man as Rev. Isaac Cushman, we may safely conclude, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, that she was of the same character. She raised a family of six children-two sons and four daughters - all of whom were pious and respectable people. Her oldest son Isaac was quite a distinguished man in Plympton. See 16.

Her monument stands next to that of her husband, and has on it the following inscription, in capital letters, an inch high:

Such is the best account we can give of the long life of Rev. Isaac Cushman. The Plympton Church Records, as well as other contemporaneous evidence, show him to have been a pious, devoted and successful minister of the Gospel. What higher eulogium can we pronounce on any man than that?

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In his earlier days he was probably engaged, as nearly all were at that period, in the business of agriculture; and in connection with it, was frequently employed in the civil offices of the town of Plymouth—such as Selectman, Deputy in the General Court, Deacon in the Church, &c. Those duties, no doubt, had a tendency to discipline his mind and prepare him for the higher service of Pastor and Teacher.

In the various offices, relations and responsibilities of life, we have every reason to suppose that he acted his part well; that the mission of labor, of trial and of duty entrusted to him by his

Creator, was well fulfilled; and to sum up all in a single ideathat he "lived the life and died the death of the righteous."

Requiescat in Pace.

The writer of this article is a lineal descendant of the fifth generation from the Rev. Isaac Cushman, and he would here express his gratitude to God that he has thus been enabled to do some measure of justice to the character and memory of his venerable

ancestor.

7 V ELKANAI, Dea.3 (22) b. 1 June 1651, and d. at Plympton 4 Sept. 1727, in his 77th year. He m. 1st Elizabeth Cole, dau. James Cole, Jr., 16 Feb. 1676-7. She d. 4 Jan. 1681-2, and he m. 2d Martha Cooke, dau. Jacob Cooke of Plymouth, 2 Mch. 1682-3. She was b. 16 Mch. 1659-60, at Plymouth, and d. 17 Sept. 1722, in her 63d year. He had 8 chil. Three by his first and 5 by his second wf. He was Deacon of the chh. at Plympton (of which his brother Isaac was Pastor) about nine years. In 1723 he was the Representative in the General Court from Plympton, and held the office of Ensign in the military company in that town,-in those days, an office of considerable distinction. The Plympton Chh. Records say,"At a chh. meeting in Plympton, December ye 26. 1718, Ensign Elcanah Cushman" (and two others) "were chosen Deacons."

"Memorandum, that on Sabbath daye some time in March in ye year 171 Samuel Sturtevant, Elcanah Cushman and Daniel Bosworth were ordained Deacons by the imposision of hands."

His house stood on the highway leading eastward from Plympton Green to Kingston, and was the first dwelling house northward of the bridge over Colchester brook, on said road.

His Will was dated 14 Oct. 1725-two years before his death — and was recorded in Book 5, page 330, of the Plymouth Records.

He was buried at Plympton, and the following is the inscription on his Grave Stone:

He was probably a member of the Plympton chh. near thirty years, as his name stands first in the list of those who joined after the chh. was first formed. He was, undoubtedly, "a pious, godly man," devoted to the prosperity of the chh., for no other could hold the important office of Deacon in those days.

8 VI FEARE,3 b. 20 June 1653. d. young. Her name is not mentioned in her father's will, made in 1690.

9 VII ELEAZER,3 (30) b. 20 Feb. 1656-7. m. ElizabethCombes, 12 Jan. 1687-8. Lived in Plympton; was a chh. member, and was received during the ministry of his brother, Rev. Isaac Cushman.

10 VIII MARY,3 b., m. Hutchinson of Lynn. She d. before 1790.