1679. BENJAMIN CUSHING

Sex: M Birth: 4 February 1679 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Christening: 6 April 1679 Death: 1702 in Barbados Benjamin was a merchant in Boston. He was a member of the Honorable Artillery in 1700 and at that time Lieutenant in another corps. He gave a Power of Attorney dated at Barbadoes, 1702, whence it is inferred he did business there. He was unmarried and left no family. Father: John Cushing b: 1627 in Hingham, Norfolk, England Mother: Sarah Hawke b: 1 August 1641 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Sources: 1. The Genealogy of the Cushing Family (An account of the Ancestors and Descendants of Matthew Cushing, who came to America in 1638) by James Cushing, The Perrault Printing Co - Montreal, 1905. First Edition, 1877, by Lemuel Cushing, D1881 (Finished by his family). 2. Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860. 3. L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937, 1938, Three volumes.