Mary Harvey Cushman was born on an unknown date to Thomas Harvey (1670-) and Elizabeth Wills (1697-) and died January 1810 Georgia, Franklin County, Vermont, United States of unspecified causes. She married Charles Cushman (1720-1791) 10 December 1739 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
Biography
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
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.
- Mary Harvey - Disambiguation page
- Harvey in Massachusetts - first families