1694. JOB CUSHING, REV.
Sex: M
Birth: 19 July 1694 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Death: 6 August 1760 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts

Education: Graduated from Harvard College in 1714

Job was ordained first Minister in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, 4 December 1723, with a salary of £60 a year and £60 settlement for the first year, then a rise of 4 pounds a year, until it should amount to £80. He lived on house lot No. 22 - granted to the first minister-, which, with other grants subsequently made to him, contained some of the best land in town. He continued in the ministry of this church 37 years, until his death in 1760.

Father: Matthew Cushing b: 15 July 1660 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Mother: Jael Jacob b: 7 September 1662 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Marriage 1: Mary Prentice b: 1708 in Lancaster, Massachusetts
Married: 16 March 1727

Children:
1. Job Cushing, Jr (Col) b: 1 January 1728 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
2. Jacob Cushing b: 17 February 1730 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
3. Mary Cushing b: 25 January 1731 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
4. Bridget Cushing b: 4 December 1734 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
5. John Cushing b: 10 September 1737 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
6. Mary Cushing b: 24 March 1741 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
7. John Cushing b: 22 August 1744 in Shrewsbury, Worcester, Massachusetts
8. Bridget Cushing b: 12 September 1746 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Sources:
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).