| 1695. JOHN CUSHING |
| Sex: M
Birth: 17 July 1695 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Death: 19 March 1778 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts John resided at Belle House in Scituate. He was Town Clerk from 1719 to 1744; representative from Scituate in 1721 and for several succeeding years; Judge of Probate Plymouth Co. 1739; Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (Plymouth Co.), from 1738 to 1751, when he was transferred to the Superior Court; Judge of the Superior Court from 1747 to 1771, when he resigned (Judge Cushing received his appointment to the Supreme Court from Washington); and a Councillor of the Province from 1746 to 1763. "His introduction into the office (of Councillor) was attended with a more unanimous vote than any ever before had-having all the votes save one." Rev. Josiah Cotton. He was one of the presiding Judges at the trial of the British soldiers for the Mass.acre at Boston 5 March, 1770. His son John, also Judge of the Sup. Ct. was f. of William, H. C. 1751, one of the Justices of the Sup. Ct. of the U. S. appoint. by Washington, wh. d. 13 Sept. 1810. In 1743 John built the Walnut Tree Hill Mansion, a large and imposing building. The mansion burned in 1872. Father: John Cushing b: 28 April 1662 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Mother: Deborah Loring b: 15 March 1668 in Hull, Massachusetts Marriage 1: Elizabeth Holmes b: March 1692 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Married: 1 April 1718 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Marriage 2: Mary Cotton b: 14 August 1710 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Married: 20 November 1729 in 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. Vital Records of Scituate, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, NEHGS, Boston, 1909, two volumes. 3. Joseph Savage, Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Originally published 1860. 4. L. Vernon Briggs, History and Genealogy of the Briggs Family, 1254-1937, 1938, Three volumes. |