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Capt Nathaniel Cushman

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Capt Nathaniel Cushman

Birth
Plympton, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
25 Oct 1793 (aged 81)
Montague City, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Montague, Franklin County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
Grave 31
Memorial ID
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DAR Patriot # A029105
and 5th Generation Mayflower Descendant: From Mayflower Families
Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015.

156 Nathaniel Cushman 5 (Isaac 4, Isaac 3, Mary 2 Allerton, Isaac 1)
882 Nathaniel Cushman 5 (Sarah Gibbs 4, Alice 3 Warren, Nathaniel 2, Richard 1)

Married 1st — Sarah Coomer on 29 Sep 1733 at Plympton,MA.
— by this marriage there were 9 children
the 6 listed below and:
— Isaac b. 20 Oct 1734 - d. 1813 Stafford, CT
— Simeon b. 14 Feb 1742/43 - d. 25 Dec 1835 in Barnwell, Barnwell District, SC
. . . . .DAR Patriot # A131879
— William b. 29 Jan 1744/45 -

Married 2nd — Temperence Simms on 23 Aug 1753 at Lebanon, CT.
— by this marriage there were 5 children
— Rebecca b. 30 May 1754 - d. young
— Temperance b. 28 Nov 1755 - 27 Sept 1843 in Lebanon, New London, CT
— Abigail b. 22 Mar/Apr 1757 - d. young
— Mercy b. 10 Feb 1760 - d. 24 Feb 1760
— Joab b. 27 Feb 1761 - d. 4 Nov 1824 in Tolland, CT

Nathaniel and Sarah were married and lived at Plymouth MA, they removed to Lebanon CT about the year 1740. After Sarah died, Nathaniel remarried there. Nathaniel removed to Bernardston, MA some time between the years 1774 and 1778, where he lived a number of years with his son, Polycarpus. Nathaniel died 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.

Additional References:

1) Author: Cushman, Henry Wyles
Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan, From the year 1617 to 1855
Publication: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1855

2) Vital records of Plympton, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923.Page: p. 86
DAR Patriot # A029105
and 5th Generation Mayflower Descendant: From Mayflower Families
Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2015.

156 Nathaniel Cushman 5 (Isaac 4, Isaac 3, Mary 2 Allerton, Isaac 1)
882 Nathaniel Cushman 5 (Sarah Gibbs 4, Alice 3 Warren, Nathaniel 2, Richard 1)

Married 1st — Sarah Coomer on 29 Sep 1733 at Plympton,MA.
— by this marriage there were 9 children
the 6 listed below and:
— Isaac b. 20 Oct 1734 - d. 1813 Stafford, CT
— Simeon b. 14 Feb 1742/43 - d. 25 Dec 1835 in Barnwell, Barnwell District, SC
. . . . .DAR Patriot # A131879
— William b. 29 Jan 1744/45 -

Married 2nd — Temperence Simms on 23 Aug 1753 at Lebanon, CT.
— by this marriage there were 5 children
— Rebecca b. 30 May 1754 - d. young
— Temperance b. 28 Nov 1755 - 27 Sept 1843 in Lebanon, New London, CT
— Abigail b. 22 Mar/Apr 1757 - d. young
— Mercy b. 10 Feb 1760 - d. 24 Feb 1760
— Joab b. 27 Feb 1761 - d. 4 Nov 1824 in Tolland, CT

Nathaniel and Sarah were married and lived at Plymouth MA, they removed to Lebanon CT about the year 1740. After Sarah died, Nathaniel remarried there. Nathaniel removed to Bernardston, MA some time between the years 1774 and 1778, where he lived a number of years with his son, Polycarpus. Nathaniel died 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.

Additional References:

1) Author: Cushman, Henry Wyles
Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan, From the year 1617 to 1855
Publication: Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1855

2) Vital records of Plympton, Massachusetts to the year 1850, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923.Page: p. 86

Inscription

in 82d yr; In Memory of Capt... / "Were I so tall to reach the Pole/Or grasp the Ocean with my Span/I must be mesuerd by my Soul/The Minds the Standard of the Man."

Gravesite Details

Revolutionary War



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