| 1794. BENJAMIN BOYLSTON CUSHING |
| Sex: M
Birth: 6 June 1794 in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, Canada Death: 8 July 1873 When a young man, he left Annapolis and went to Liverpool, Queen's County, Nova Scotia with his brother Charles, and settled in what is now Kempt, but was then an unbroken wilderness for 80 miles. He hewed out a clearing to build a house, and brought his young wife 40 miles on horseback. His daughter says; "I have heard him tell so many times of their pioneer life; when sometimes he had to leave his wife alone for more than a week with her young baby, my oldest brother. Other families settled eight miles nearer the seaboard, and then they had neighbors quite near, and were so happy in their rough life. One time he told of mother being eight days and not seeing a person, when an Indian came and she was glad to see him. The Indians were not savage in these parts." He was a silent man and a devout Methodist. Father: Benjamin Boylston Cushing b: 20 June 1766 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts Mother: Martha Young b: 1763 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriage 1 Elizabeth Ford b: 17 August 1802 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada; d: 6 April 1847 Married: 24 December 1821 in Milton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Marriage 2: Margaret Whitten b: 10 September 1815 in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada; d: 2 August 1879 Married: 9 January 1850 in Caledonia, Nova Scotia, Canada
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. The Genealogy of the Cushing Family 1905 - 1969, by Allston T. Cushing, Kansas City Missouri 1969. |