A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855 |
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... period of two hundred and thirty - eight years . That it has been a work of great labor , can ever know , must be obvious to all . num sine labore , ” and an anxious desire in this way to erect a monument to our name , more lasting than ...
... period of two hundred and thirty - eight years . That it has been a work of great labor , can ever know , must be obvious to all . num sine labore , ” and an anxious desire in this way to erect a monument to our name , more lasting than ...
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... period we were of English descent . In regard to the formation of the name , it probably originated in this way : At first it was the man of Cush , — a place , — and in time , by a very natu- ral change , it became Cush - man . - It has ...
... period we were of English descent . In regard to the formation of the name , it probably originated in this way : At first it was the man of Cush , — a place , — and in time , by a very natu- ral change , it became Cush - man . - It has ...
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... period , therefore , he must have been from 35 to 40 years of age . Says Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts , published in 1767 , " I think I may , with singular propriety , call their lives a pilgrimage . Most of them left England ...
... period , therefore , he must have been from 35 to 40 years of age . Says Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts , published in 1767 , " I think I may , with singular propriety , call their lives a pilgrimage . Most of them left England ...
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... periods became so popular and renowned , was first given them as a term of reproach and disrespect.2 1 " The settlement of New England was a result of the Reformation : not of the contest between the new opinions and the authority of ...
... periods became so popular and renowned , was first given them as a term of reproach and disrespect.2 1 " The settlement of New England was a result of the Reformation : not of the contest between the new opinions and the authority of ...
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... period , of MR . ROBERT CUSHMAN.1 And it should here be noticed that Gov. Bradford , Morton's Memorial , and other con- temporaneous writers , are all scrupulously particular in adding to his name the honorable prefix of " Mr. , " an ...
... period , of MR . ROBERT CUSHMAN.1 And it should here be noticed that Gov. Bradford , Morton's Memorial , and other con- temporaneous writers , are all scrupulously particular in adding to his name the honorable prefix of " Mr. , " an ...
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