Genealogy Windsor-Cicognani » Matthew Cushing (1589-1660)

Personal data Matthew Cushing 

• He was born on March 2, 1589 in Norfolk, England.
• Emigrated in the year 1638, Hingham, Plymouth, MA., Verenigde Staten.
• He died on September 30, 1660 in Massachussetts, Verenigde Staten, he was 71 years old.
• This information was last updated on September 30, 2019.

Household of Matthew Cushing

He is married to Nazareth Pitcher.

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They got married on August 5, 1613 at Hingham, Norfolk, England, he was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Daniel Cushing  1619-1700 
2. Jeremiah Cushing  1621-1665
3. Matthew Cushing  1623-1701
4. Deborah Cushing  1625-1700
5. John Cushing  1627-1708

Notes about Matthew Cushing

Matthew Cushing (1588-1660), born in 1588, the year of the Spanish Armada, son of Peter Cushing of Norfolk, whose grandfather had possessed large estates in Lombard street, London, married 5 August 1613 Nazareth Pitcher, daughter of Henry Pitcher, of the famous family of Admiral Pitcher of England. For the first fifty years of his life he lived in Hardingham and Hingham, Norfolk County, England, and had, as by register of old Hingham: Daniel, baptized 20 April 1619; Jeremiah, 1 January 1621; Matthew, 5 April 1623; Deborah, 17 February 1625; and John, whose baptism is, I believe, omitted and I have heard, that it was in a neighboring parish. With his wife and five children, and his wife's sister (Widow Francis Riecroft, who died a few weeks after their arrival), he embarked in the ship -Diligent- of Ipswich, 350 tons, John Martin, master, which sailed from Gravesend, 26 April 1638, with 133 passengers, among whom was Robert Peck, M.A., Rector of the parish of Hingham, England. The immediate occasion of their departure seems to have been trouble in ecclesiastical matters. Their rector, doubtless with the sympathy and aid of most of those constituting the emigrating party, had pulled down the rails of chancel and altar, and leveled the latter a foot below the church, as it remains to this day. Being prosecuted by Bishop Wren, he left the Kingdom, together with his friends - who sold their estates at half their real value. The party, having landed at Boston Massachusetts, 10 August 1638, immediately proceeded to their destination, Hingham Massachusetts, so named after the name of the former home of the Cushing family in England. At a town meeting held in 1638, a house lot of five acres, first below Pear Tree Hill, on Bachelor (Main) St., was given to Matthew Cushing, and it continued in the possession of the family until 1887. He was early engaged in the public affairs of the town, became a deacon in Reverend Hobart's church, and was the progenitor of many eminent descendants. It is now a pretty well established fact that, with the exception of a few families who have come to this country during the past century, all the persons bearing the surname of Cushing in the United States and Canada are his direct lineal descendants. His will, which was a verbal one, was written after his decease by his children, who, under date of 15 November 1660, pray that Daniel Cushing, Esq., their oldest brother, may be appointed administrator of their father's estate. In his will all the children except Deborah, who married May 1648, Matthew Briggs, are named as living; and the share to this son-in-law was large. His widow died 1681, aged 95.

Passengers of the Diligent:
Rev. Robert Peck, Mrs. Peck, Anne Peck, Joseph Peck, Joseph Peck, Mrs. ......Peck,
Edward Gillman, Mrs. Mary Gilman, Edward Gilman, Moses Gilman, Lydia Gilman, Sarah Gilman, John Gilman,
John Folsom, Mrs. Mary Folsom, John Folsom,
Mrs. Christian Chamberlain, Henry Chamberlain, Mrs. .......Chamberlain, .... Chamberlain, ....Chamberlain,
Stephen Gates, Mrs. Anne Gates, Elizabeth Gates, Mary Gates,
George Knights, Mrs.......Knights, ....Knights,
Thomas Cooper, Mrs. Cooper, ....Cooper, ....Cooper,
Francis James, Mrs. Elizabeth James,
Matthew Hawke, Mrs. Margaret Hawke,
Matthew Cushing, Mrs. Nazareth Cushing, Daniel Cushing, Jeremiah Cushing, Matthew Cushing, John Cushing, Deborah Cushing,
Tohn Tufts,
Robert Skoulding,
Elizabeth Sayer, Mary Sayer,
John Fearing,
Philip James, Mrs. Jane James, ....James, ....James, ....James, ....James,
Stephen Paine, Mrs. Rose Paine, ....Paine, ....Paine, ....Paine, ....Paine,
John Sutton, Mrs. Elizabeth Sutton, Hannah Sutton, John Sutton, Jr., Nathaniel Sutton, Elizabeth Sutton,
Mrs. Joan Lincoln, Stephen Lincoln, Mrs. ....Lincoln, Stephen Lincoln, Jr.,
Samuel Packer, Mrs. Elizabeth Packer, ....Packer,
Henry Smith, Mrs. Judith Smith, John Smith, Henry Smith, Daniel Smith, Judith Smith, Elizabeth Smith,
Bozoun Allen, Mrs. Anne Allen,
William Ripley, Mrs. ....Ripley, Mary Ripley, John Ripley, Abraham Ripley, Sarah Ripley,
Thomas Sucklin,
Richard Baxter,
William Pitts,
Edward Mitchell,
James Buck,
John Morfield,
Thomas Lincoln,
Jeremiah Moore,
and about 20 servants.

PLANTERS OF THE COMMONWEALTH by C.E. Banks, Boston, 1930
Upon the lot now occupied by Dr. Robbins at the foot of Pear-tree Hill, a few rods north of his residence, Matthew Cushing, who died in 1660 at seventy-one years of age, the progenitor, probably, of all the families of that name in the United States, had established the home which remained uninterruptedly in the family until 1887; and here still lived his wife, who died subsequently to the war, aged ninety-six, his son Daniel, then and until his death town clerk, and one of the wealthy men of the period, and Matthew a grandson, afterwards lieutenant and captain. Not far away Matthew Cushing senior's daughter Deborah lived with her husband, Matthias Briggs, while on the opposite side of the street, at what is now the Keeshan place, Daniel the younger, a weaver by trade, established a home and reared a large family. The Cushings were shopkeepers in addition to their other occupations, and probably the little end shop built onto the dwelling on either side of the street contained articles of sale and barter,--produce and pelts and West India goods and ammunition. We may suppose that these small centres of trade, together with the tannery in the immediate vicinity, gave quite a little air of business to the neighborhood,--forming indeed the primitive exchange of the period.

SHOEMAKER 601
(The Family in America).
(I) MATTHEWCUsH1NG,son of Peter and Susan (Hawes) Cushing, was bap­tized in Hardingham, England, March 2, 1589, and died in Hingham, Massachu­setts, September go, 1660. In 1638, with his wife, five children and his wife’s sister, VVidowFrancis Riecroft, he came to America in the ship “Diligent,” of Ipswich, which sailed from Gravesend on April 26, 1638, with one hundred and
thirty—threepassengers, John Martin, master. On August 10, 1638, they landed in Boston and then proceeded to Hingham, Massachusetts, to settle, several lots having been granted to Matthew Cushing previous to his arrival. His first New Eng­land property remained in the family’s possession until 1887. He was prominent in the local affairs of Hingham, and was deacon of the church, of which Rev. Hobart was pastor.
Matthew Cushing married, August 5, I6I3, Nazareth Pitcher, daughter of Henry Pitcher, kinsman of the famous family of Admiral Pitcher, of England.
She was baptized October 30, 1586, and died January 6, 1682, in Hingham, Mas­sachusetts. Children (born in Hingham, England) I
1. Daniel, ‘baptized April 20, 1619, died December 3, 1700; married (first), January 19, 1645, Lydia Gilman, who died March 12, 1689; married (second), March 23, 1691,
Elizabeth Jacob, widow of Captain John Thaxter:
2. Jeremiah, baptized July 21, 1521,lost at sea; married, March 11, 1662, Elizabeth Wilkie.
3. Matthew, baptized April 5, 1623, died January 9, 1701; married, February 25, 1653, in Hingham, Massachusetts, Sarah Jacobs.
4. Deborah, baptized February 17, 1625, died September 25, 1700; married, May 9, 1648, Matthias Briggs.
5. John, of whom further.
(George Lincoln: “History of the Town of Hingham, Massachusetts,” Vol. II, p. 150. James S. Cushing: “The Genealogy of the Cushing Family,” pp. 21, 22, 23.)
(11) JOHN CUSHING,son of Matthew and Nazareth (Pitcher) Cushing, was born in Hingham, England, in 1627, and died March 31, 1708, in Scituate, Massa­chusetts. He removed from Hingham to Scituate in I662. In company with Mat­thias Briggs, he purchased, for one hundred and twenty pounds, the Varsall estate, at “Belle House Neck,” in Scituate, in 1657. It is interesting to note that this name owes its origin to a ball which hung at the house of this estate for a century to give alarm to the neighboring country in case of the approach of Indians.
Cushing took an active part in the affairs of the town and held the following posi­
tions: surveyor of highways, I663; receiver of excises, I667; deputy to the colony, I674, and often reelected; in 1673 was one of a committee for dividing Scit­
uate lands; in 1676reported officiallyto the Government a statement of all services
of the soldiers from Scituate in King Philip’s VVar; selectman, I674-86; county
magistrate (Plymouth County), I685-92; assistant of the Old Colony Government
of Plymouth Colony, 1689-91; representative to the General Court at Boston,
1692, and several years following; member of the council, 1706 and I707 ; colonel
of the Plymouth Regiment.
John Cushing married, January 20, 1658, in Hingham, Massachusetts, Sarah Hawke, daughter of Matthew and Margaret Hawke.

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