Our Cushman Families: From Robert and Thomas Cushman--A Double Lineage
Of Thomas and Mary Allerton's Children: Elkanah Cushman (1651-1727) and Lydia Cushman Harlow (1658-1718)
In the investigation of our great grandmother Hannah Pierce Harlow's family it was discovered that in the earliest generations of the line William Harlow Jr married Lydia Cushman, daughter of Thomas Cushman (1608-1691) and Mary Allerton. Thomas Cushman arrived at Plymouth Colony with his father Robert on the "Fortune" in 1621, along with our Bumpus family namesake Edouad Bompasse. Mary Allerton, of course, arrived in Plymouth with her parents Issac and Mary (Norris) Allerton on the Mayflower (1620) and this was the first Mayflower line we were able to document for our family. The Cushman monument is the largest to be found on Burial Hill in Plymouth and was dedicated to them by their ancestors in the 1880's. This is the picture found above left. The background picture I have added is that of the headstone of Elder Thomas Cushman, which was moved to its present location during the construction of the large obelisk. Robert Cushman, of course, died in England after he had returned with the Fortune to attend to business matters for the fledling colony.
This Cushman link with the Harlow family through our Father's grandmother led us to investigate closely the Cushman genealogy, aided greatly by the recent Harlow genealogy published by The Harlow Family Association, and we were then able to delineate a second Cushman line in our mother's Sampson family. This line, which descends from Thomas and Mary's son Elkanah (1651-1727) Cushman who married (2) Martha Cooke, (daughter of Jacob Cooke and Damaris Hopkins)--thus leading to Mayflower passengers Francis Cooke and Stephen Hopkins, led to Plympton and the large Cushman family which had lived there, in what was early on Western Plymouth. There is a large Cushman presence to be found in the Old Burial Grounds there.
The Cushman Family genealogy lists an Asenath Cushman (b.1793) as the daughter of Cephas Cushman and Judith Clark, a reference which led us astray for some time, as our Sampson family great-grandmother was a grand-daughter of an Asenath Cushman. Now, as we have it, our Rebecca Churchill's (1834-1890) mother was Asenath Vickery (b.1811)--the daughter of Daniel Vickery (1789-18??) and Asenath Cushman (b.1791) of Plympton. It has now been found that this is the correct Asenath Cushman (of Plympton Mass not Rochester) and the line as it is now known actually follows Elkanah Cushman and Martha Cooke through their son Lt. Josiah Cushman and Susannah Shurtleff, whose graves as well as their son Elkanah, married to Hannah Standish (giving us a THIRD Standish line), are all found in the Old Burial Grounds and these pictures I am adding to our Cushman Gallery.
Anyone with information on the Cushman Family I have outlined
above can please e-mail me at the following address to correspond, and/or add or request information on these families. Anything at all would be much appreciated.
Our Cushman--Allerton Family Heritage Tree
Anyone with information on the Cushman Family I have outlined
above can please e-mail me at the following address to correspond, and/or add or request information on these families. Anything at all would be much appreciated.
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