ber of the chh. from its first organization, and his dau. Sarah was received into full communion 3 Oct. 1742. He was by occupation, a blacksmith, and d. 12 Aug. 1766, in the 74th year of his age.

33 IV JAMES,* (108) b. in Plymouth and settled in that part of Fair Haven that was then Dartmouth. He built the house, now standing, about four miles north of New Bedford, which was occupied by his son Elisha. He had 11 chil. 34 V WILLIAM, (119) b. at Plymouth 27 Oct. 1710; m. Abigail Lee. Lived in Mansfield, Conn. She was b. 9 Apl. 1713, and d. Apl. 1803. He d. at Willington, Conn. 27 Dec. 1777. Had 11 chil.

Note.-Dea. Lewis Bradford says, "There were, doubtless, other chil. of this family."

FIFTH GENERATION.

Published for mar-
He d. about 1751,

ROBERT, [11] of Kingston, had chil. 35 I ROBERT,5 (138) b. 2 July 1698. riage with Mary Washburn 17 Apl. 1725. as his will was proved in Sept. of that year. He gave all his property to his wf. He had 13 chil.

36 II RUTH,5 b. 25 Mch. 1700, m. Luke Perkins, Jr., 28 Jan. 1716-17. She was 16 years 10 mos. and 3 days old when she was m.; his family removed from Plympton to Bridgewater; he was the son of Luke Perkins of Plympton, and brother of Dea. Josiah Perkins of that town. They had chil. 1 Ignatius Perkins, b. 15 July 1720.

2 Hannah " 3 Mary

b. 27 May 1723.

b. 28 June 1726.

Luke, Jr., was m. at Plympton by Rev. Isaac Cushman. His father lived in Kingston.

37 III ABIGAIL,5 b. 3 July 1701.

38 IV HANNAH,5 b. 25 Dec. 1704, m. John Waterman of Plymouth, 17 Aug. 1731.

39 V THOMAS,5 (151) b. 14 Feb. 1706, d. 13 June 1768, ae. 61 years 3 mo. 16 days N. S. He m. Mehitable Faunce. She was b. 11 Apl. 1722, d. 19 June 1761. He was a farmer and resided in Kingston.

He

40 VI JOSHUA,5 (163) b. 14 Oct. 1708, d. at Marshfield 25 March 1764, ae. 55 years. He m. 1st Mary Soule, dau. Josiah Soule, of Duxbury, 2 Jan. 1733, from whom have descended all the Cushmans in D. She was b. 6 Dec. 1706. m. 2d Deborah Ford of Marshfield, 5 March 1752. She was b. in 1718 and d. 1 July 1789, ae. 71. Joshua came from Lebanon, Ct., and settled in Duxbury.

41 VII JONATHAN,5 (175) b. 28 July 1712, m. Susannah, dau. John and Elizabeth Benson, in 1736. Lived in Kingston.

JOB, [12] of Plymouth (probably), had chil.

42 I MARIAH,5 b. 1707, m. John Baker of Duxbury, 10 Dec. 1732.

43 II JOB,5 b. 1710, d. 12 Nov. 1729, ae. 19. He was buried in the old burying ground at Plymouth, ten feet south of Elder Thomas' grave. The inscription on his grave stone is as follows:

44 III LYDIA,5 b. 1718, m. Solomon Atwood (probably) in

1748.

SAMUEL, [14] of Attleboro, had chil.

45 I DESIRE,5 b. 18 Sept. 1710.

48 V JOSEPH,5 b. 7 Jan. 1717, d. at Plympton 10 May 1727. 49 VI JACOB,5 (194) b. 20 Mch. 1719-20, d. May 1796, ae. 76. m. 1st Elizabeth Read of Attleboro' 1743, m. 2d Widow Hannah Cobb of Pembroke, 30 May 1764, by Rev. John Howland of Plympton.

50 VII JEMIMA,5 b. 23 Oct. 1724, d. at Plympton 2 May 1727.

BENJAMIN, (15) of Plympton, had chil.

Paddleford.

51 I JABEZ,5 (205) b. 11 Aug. 1713, m 52 II CALEB,5 (213) b. 15 May 1715, m. 11 Nov. 1742 Sarah Barrows, by Rev. Othniel Campbell of Carver. He removed from Plymouth and settled in Carver. July 4, 1742, he was received to full communion of the chh. at Plympton. 53 III SOLOMON,5 (220) b. 9 Sept. 1717, m. 1st Ruth

probably in 1740. He and his wf. Ruth chh. at Plympton. (See appendix F.) resided in Simsbury or Granby, Conn. wf. and 3 by 2d wf.

were members of the He m. a 2d wf. and Had 8 chil. by 1st

54 IV JERUSHA,5 b. 7 Dec. 1719, d. 22 May 1727.

55 V BENJAMIN,5 (225) b. 25 May 1722, m. Zeruiah Samp

son, dau. Wm. Sampson, 27 Aug. 1747.1
Mch. 1725-6, and d. 29 Feb. 1820,
1813, ae. 90 years and 9 months.
person that ever d. in Plympton.

She was b. 18

ae. 93. He d. 5 Mch. He was the oldest male Females have d. older.

He lived on "Dunham's Neck," so called, and d. there.

56 VI SARAH,5 b. 26 Sept. 1725, d. unm.

57 VII ABIGAIL,5 b. 22 Nov. 1727, m. Zabdiel Sampson of Plympton, 31 Dec. 1747. Had one child, Sarah, who m. Wm. Bent of Middleboro. She d. 4 May 1751.

58 VIII THOMAS,5 (235) b. 11 Oct. 1730, m. Anna Chipman, dau. Jacob Chipman of Halifax. He d. of the small pox (contracted while attending the General Court at Boston) 30 Oct. 1777, ae. 47, and his wife d. of the same disease 4 Jan. 1778. He and his dau. Jerusha were members of the chh. at Plympton, and he represented that town in the Legislature. He was a pious and respectable man, and a good member of society. He lived and died in the house where his father, Benj., lived, on the south side of Colchester Brook.

19 Mch. 1777. "Nathaniel Briant, David Churchill and Thomas Cushman were chosen as a standing committee for the term of three months, in order to visit and endeavor to bring to repentance such of the children of the chh. as have been guilty of open scandal."-Plympton Chh. Records.

His wf. and four chil. having d. with small pox were all buried in a field a quarter of a mile west of the house then occupied by Thomas.

59 IX JERUSHA,5 b. 18 Oct. 1732, baptized Jan. 1732–3, m. George Sturtevant of Plympton, 11 May 1748.

It appears by the Plympton Chh. Records that he paid the clergyman who married him the sum of 20 shillings, which was more than had usually been paid for that service.

60 X HULDAH,5 b. 6 Apl. 1735, m. 1st David Fearing of Wareham, and 2d John Millard. Their dau. Priscilla Millard m. Rev. Caleb Combs, a Baptist Minister, who preached the first sermon ever preached in the State of Ohio.

ISAAC, Lt., [16] of Plympton, had chil. by 1st wf.

61 I PHEBE, b. 14 Mch. 1702-3, m. Nathaniel Spooner 6 Nov. 1725. She was a member of the chh. in Plympton.

62 II ALICE,5 b. 26 June 1705, m. Jonathan Bosworth 19 Dec. 1723.

63 III REBEKAH,5 b. Oct. 14, 1707, d. 21 Aug. 1727, m. Jabez Newland of Plympton. Had no chil.

64 IV SARAH,5 b. 2 Dec. 1709, m. Benj. Spooner 23 Nov. 1731.

65 V NATHANIEL,5 (180) b. 28 May 1712, d. at Montague 1 Oct. 1793, ae. 82. m. 1st Sarah Coomer, dau. Wm. Coomer of Plympton, 22 Nov. 1733. She was b. 28 Feb. 1713, d. 14 Apl. 1753, ae. 40. Had 10 chil. He m. 2d Temperance Sims 23 Aug. 1753. She was b. 16 Mch. 1720, d. 27 Feb. 1774, ae. 54. She was of Lebanon, Ct. He lived at Plymouth, and moved to Lebanon, Ct., about the year 1740; thence to Bernardston some time between the years 1774 and 1778, where he lived a number of years with his son, Dr. Polycarpus; d. at Montague, at the house of his son Consider, and was buried in the old North Burying Ground. He was a Captain in the Militia, and was a man of importance in those days. He was the great grandfather of the writer hereof. Of his 14 children, 4 were b. in Plymouth, and 10 in "Lebanon Crank," so called, in Ct., now called Columbia. His bible. is yet extant in the family of Alfred Allen, Esq., at Colchester, Vt., who m. his grand dau. Vila, dau. of Capt. Artemas Cushman. On one of the leaves of that Bible was written, "This Bible was bought A. D. 1737; price £3 16s. It was printed in London in 1712." He was buried in an old Burying Ground (not now used as such) in the North-westerly part of Montague, about forty rods east of the Canal, and opposite the second set of Locks from Turner's Falls on Connecticut