Person:Thomas Cushman (2)

Notes of HWC: He died of the small pox (contracted while attending the General Court at Boston); and his wife died of the same disease. He and his daughter Jerusha were members of the church at Plympton, and he represented that town in the Legislature. He was a pious and respectable man, and a good member of society. He lived and died in the house where his father, Benjamin, lived, on the south side of Colchester Brook. 19 Mar 1777 --Nathaniel Briant, David Churchill and Thomas Cushman were chosen as a standing committee for the term of three months, in order to visit and endeavor to bring to repentance such of the children of the church as have been guilty of open scandal. --Plympton Chh. Records. His wife and four children having died with small pox were all buried in a field a quarter of a mile west of the house then occupied by Thomas.

1. ↑ Plympton, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Plympton, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1923)
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   CUSHMAN, Thomas, ch. Benjamin and Sarah [see Abigal], (born) Oct. 11, 1730.