| 1677. JOSEPH CUSHING |
| Sex: M
Birth: 23 September 1677 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Death: 12 December 1760 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Christening: 12 May 1678 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Burial: December 1760 South Scituate Burying-grounds, South Scituate, Massachusetts Joseph resided in Scituate and was a deacon of the Second Church, a justice of the peace, one of the judges in the Supreme Court, active in the community and greatly respected. JOSEPH, Scituate, brother of the preceding married 1 January 1710, Mary, or Mercy, daughter of Nathan Pickels (Deane, 259, and 324, is responsible for both names), was a deacon had only one son Joseph, Harvard College 1721, whose was father of Nathan, Harvard College 1763, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. Joseph purchased in 1707 from Phillip Turner a tract of land at Henchman's Corner in the South Parish of Scituate, upon which the house of the late Dr. Heyward Warren Cushing stands (1936). Joseph built a house upon this tract when he married, and a corner stone of this first house is imbedded in the lawn on Dr. Cushing's estate. The original house was enlarged by his son, Deacon Joseph, Jr., and later it formed the ell of a large house built by the latter's son George. After Joseph's wife, Mercy, died, he did not remarry, and his wife's sister, Alice Pickles was the foster-mother of young Joseph. Joseph was a Deacon of the Second Church, a Justice of the Peace, active in the community and greatly respected. Father: John Cushing b: 1627 in Hingham, Norfolk, England Mother: Sarah Hawke b: 1 August 1641 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Marriage 1: Mary C. 'Mercy' Pickels b: 1688 in Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts Married: 1 January 1711 in Scituate, 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. |