Biography
Charles Cushman was born 1720 in Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut to John Cushman (1690-1760) and Joanna Pratt (1690-1747) and died September 1791 Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont, United States of unspecified causes. He married Mary Harvey (c1725-1810) 10 December 1739 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
Charles Cushman, born at Plymouth County, Massachusetts, married and brought up his family at Norwich, Connecticut, where he worked in iron and carried on a forge. He removed to Milford, Connecticut, remaining there but one year.
From thence he moved to Bennington, Vermont and then to Rutland, Vermont, where he died at the residence of his son, Isaac, in Sept 1791.
Marriage and Family
Family legend (page 140, Cushman Family History) - "His wife was an English woman by the name of Mary Harvey (c1725-1810), whose history is a romance. Her father was an Episcopal clergyman of London, with a large fortune and title blood, but a younger son. Her mother died when she was young and her step mother treated her ill, as step mothers often do.
"Her father resolved upon separating them, and entrusted her, with all her mother's valuables and a sum of money to be invested in her education, to the care of a gentleman, who engaged to place her with some friends in Scotland. The gentlemen proved to be a scoundrel, took posession of all her effects and landed her in America, utterly destitute. A young girl, alone and unfriended, her story found sympathiz, but none to undertake to right her wrongs. Her father getting no tidings of her, died, as she learned, of grief. While she married Charles Cushman (1720-1791), the 'Forgeman', as the title runs in some of the old papers of the day.
"Her husband and herself formed many plans, wrote many letters, and made many resolves, all having in view the recovery of her property. Several years since, her grandson, John Cushman, (who lived at Ellisburg, NY) was fitted out for England, with that aim, but waiting in New York City for a ship, he took a fever, and after long suffering, returned home. Nothing was ever obtained of her property from England." She died at the house of her son, Frederick, in Georgia VT, Jan 1810.
Children
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Bethia Cushman (1742-) | |||
Isaac Cushman (1744-) | |||
Charles Chushman (1747-1810) | |||
Susanna Cushman (1748-) | |||
Keziah Cushman (1752-1844) | 13 August 1752 Rutland County, Vermont, United States | 5 February 1844 Augusta, Oneida County, New York, United States | Sylvanus Brown (1747-1822) |
Frederich Cushman (1758-1852) | |||
Hannah Cushman (1760-) | |||
Lydia Cushman (1762-) | |||
Jemima Cushman (1768-) | |||
Louisa Cushman (1773-1831) |
Siblings
Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
Charles Cushman (1720-1791) | 1720 Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut | September 1791 Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont, United States | Mary Harvey (c1725-1810) |
John Cushman (c1722-) | |||
James Cushman (1724-1752) |
Residences
References
- History of the Allerton family in the United States : 1585 to 1885, and a genealogy of the descendants of Isaac Allerton, Mayflower pilgrim, Plymouth, Mass. Fascinating story of this family of Mayflower descendants that helped settle the new world.
- Charles Cushman - Disambiguation page
- Cushman in Plymouth County, Massachusetts - first families