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     Martin Cushing was born on 7 August 1772 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.^1,2 He was the son of Peter Cushing and Silence Burr.¹ Martin Cushing married Hannah Sewall, daughter of Colonel Dummer Sewall and Mary Dunning, on 26 October 1794 in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine.^1,3 Martin Cushing died on 17 January 1857 in E. Monmouth at the age of 84.¹

     Mary Dunning Cushing was born on 30 July 1806.¹ She was the daughter of Martin Cushing and Hannah Sewall.¹ Mary Dunning Cushing married Henry Mayhew.¹ Mary Dunning Cushing died on 14 January 1850 in Maine at the age of 43² and is buried in New Sharon Village Cemetery, Franklin County, Maine.²

     Matthew Cushing was baptised on 2 March 1589 at Hadingham, England.² He married Nazareth Pitcher, daughter of Henry Pitcher, on 5 August 1613.² Matthew Cushing emigrated in 1638 to Hingham, Massachusetts, on the Diligence.^1,3 He died on 30 September 1660 at the age of 71.²

     Peter Cushing married Silence Burr.¹

     Sarah Cushing was born circa 30 January 1801.¹ She was the daughter of Martin Cushing and Hannah Sewall.¹ Sarah Cushing married Phineas Bond on 20 August 1826 in Winthrop.¹ Sarah Cushing died on 8 December 1875.¹

     Sarah Moody Cushing was born on 26 May 1852 in Newburyport, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of William Cushing and Sarah Moody Stone.¹ Sarah Moody Cushing married Robert Noxon Toppan, son of Charles Toppan and Laura Ann Noxon, on 6 October 1880.¹

     Sarah Sumner Cushing married Charles Paine, son of Hon. Robert Treat Paine and Sally Cobb.¹

     Thomas Cushing. Editor and publisher of the Salem Gazette.¹ He was born in 1764. He was the son of Hon. Thomas Cushing.¹ Thomas Cushing married firstly Lucy Whitwell in 1782 in Boston, Massachusetts.^2,3 Thomas Cushing married secondly Catherine Sewall Pynchon Orne, daughter of Timothy Orne and Elizabeth Sewall Pynchon, on 3 July 1799 in Salem, Massachusetts.⁴ Thomas Cushing died on 29 September 1824 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.⁵

     Hon. Thomas Cushing died in 1789.¹

     Lt. Governor Thomas Cushing married Deborah Fletcher.¹

CUSHING THOMAS, lieut. governour of Massachusetts, was the son of Mr. speaker Cushing, and rose to higher offices in the state than his father or grandfather, each of whom had been distinguished with peculiar honours. He had good talents, and was a very useful man in many departments, though he had not their splendid abilities. He was graduated at Harvard College, 1744; engaged in mercantile business, but his mind was turned much to political affairs. The father enjoyed the affluence of wealth with all the honours his country could bestow upon him: the son was fonder of publick life, and paid too little attention to pecuniary considerations. He was sent representative from his native town for a number of years, and, A.D. 1761, when the governour negatived Mr. Otis, who had been chosen speaker, he was elected in his place; and he continued to fill the chair, till he was chosen one of the members of the congress which met at Philadelphia, 1774. He was then commissary general, but the province was in such a state, that there was no great call for a person in this office, nor did any material profit attend it. In 1779 Mr. Cushing declined going to Congress; and the government of Massachusetts being then organized, he was elected to the second office in the state He was lieut. governour from the time he was chosen till his death, 1788. There was a time when Mr. C. was considered in Great Britain as the leader of the whigs in this country. He was not esteemed so in Boston. He had less political zeal than Otis, or Adams, or Hancock; but by his pleasant temper, his moderation, his conversing with men of different parties, though he sometimes was lashed by their strokes for want of firmness, he obtained more influence than either, except Mr. Hancock. The reason of his being known so much in the mother country was, that his name was signed to all the publick papers, as speaker of the house. Hence he was sometimes exposed to the sarcasms of the ministerial writers. In the pamphlet of Dr. Johnson, called, "Taxation no Tyranny," one object of the Americans is said to be, to adorn the brows of Mr. C---g with a diadem." He had a rank among the patriots, as a sincere friend to the publick good, and he was also a friend to religion, which he manifested by a constant attendance upon all pious institutions. He was also very attentive to the affairs of the college, an example to others of the overseers, being often chairman of committees, and always present at the board; he was also fellow of the corporation from the year 1785, in which Mr. Bowdoin resigned. He received a diploma of doctor of laws from the university. Mr. Gushing left a number of children; one of his daughters married John Avery, esq. who for many years was secretary of the commonwealth. Eliot: Biographical Dictionary of New England, p. 141.²

     Timothy Orne Cushing was born circa 1803 in Newton.² He was the son of Thomas Cushing and Catherine Sewall Pynchon Orne.¹ Timothy Orne Cushing was baptised on 8 March 1812 aged 9 years.³ He followed in the Orne family tradition and entered into the maritime trades. Becoming Captain Timothy Cushing with help and guidance from his grandmother Elizabeth, who paid for his instruction in Navigation, Cushing embarked on the coastal and Transatlantic merchant trade. Often working with his brother-in-law, Luke Baldwin, and stepfather, Elisha Mack, Captain Cushing commanded the Brig Charlestown Packet from New Bedford, Choctaw, and Shawmut of Marblehead, Massachusetts. It appears that Timothy Cushing never married.¹

     William Cushing married Sarah Moody Stone.¹

     Abigail Cushman married secondly Dura Wadsworth, son of Deacon Dura Wadsworth and Lydia Bradford, after 1814.

     Rev. David Quimby Cushman. A Congregationalist clergyman.² He was born on 2 December 1806 in Wiscasset, Maine.¹ He married Emeline Henry Sewall, daughter of Deacon David Sewall and Elizabeth Crosby, on 13 February 1838 in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine, the marriage being solemnised by the Rev. John W. Ellingwood.^3,4 In 1882 Rev. David Quimby Cushman died on 13 October 1889 in Bath, Maine, at the age of 82.⁵

     Dorcas Cushman was born on 31 December 1794 in Sumner, Maine.^2,3 She was the daughter of Isaiah Cushman Jr. and Sarah Ripley.¹ Dorcas Cushman married John Milton Sewall, son of Rev. Samuel M. Sewall and Mary Lambard, on 30 November 1820 (intention Sumner 1 November 1820.)^2,3 Dorcas Cushman died on 18 October 1883 in Sumner, Oxford County, Maine, at the age of 88 she was living with her son William at the time of the 1880 Census. The newspaper notice gives no date of death but gives her age as 89.^4,5,6

     Emeline Augusta Cushman married William H. Hodgman.² Emeline Augusta Cushman was born on 21 June 1841 in Maine.^1,3 She was the daughter of Rev. David Quimby Cushman and Emeline Henry Sewall.¹

     Isaiah Cushman was born in 1730 in Plympton, Massachusetts.¹ He married Sarah Ring on 1 November 1753 in Plympton, Massachusetts.² Between 1776 and 1779 was a member of the Committees of Correspondence and Inspection; also a member of the Committee on Framing the New Constitution.¹ Isaiah Cushman died in 1818 in Canada.¹

     Isaiah Cushman Jr. was born on 6 February 1757 in Plympton, Massachusetts.^1,2 He was the son of Isaiah Cushman and Sarah Ring.¹ Isaiah Cushman Jr. married Sarah Ripley, daughter of William Ripley and Lydia Ring, on 14 September 1778 (they were second cousins.)^2,3 He was placed on the pension roll, 1832, for two years actual service as a private in the Massachusetts line.¹ Isaiah Cushman Jr. died on 8 January 1841 in Sumner, Maine, at the age of 83.³

     Agnes Regina Cute was born on 8 August 1887.¹ She married Elmer Samuel Cowen on 3 January 1911 in Saratoga, New York.² Agnes Regina Cute died on 23 November 1973 in Mechanicville, Saratoga, New York, at the age of 86.¹

     Abraham Lowe Cutler was born on 3 June 1818 in Winchendon, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Dr. William H. Cutler and Abigail Lowe.¹ Abraham Lowe Cutler married Harriet Hyde Sewall, daughter of William Dunning Sewall and Rachel Allen Trufant, on 30 October 1844 in Bath, Sagadahoc County, Maine.³ Abraham Lowe Cutler appears on the census of 1880 at Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, as a Wholesale druggist.⁴ He died on 12 December 1904 in Chestnut Place, Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 86.² He was buried in Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory, Jamaica Plain, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.⁵ He. .⁶

     Alice Sewall Cutler was born in 1856 in Brookline, Massachusetts.³ She was the daughter of Abraham Lowe Cutler and Harriet Hyde Sewall.¹ Alice Sewall Cutler died on 10 April 1899 in Brookline, Massachusetts, of chronic nephritis.²

     Arthur Trufant Cutler was born circa 1851 in Massachusetts.¹ He was the son of Abraham Lowe Cutler and Harriet Hyde Sewall.¹

     Elizabeth Lowe Cutler was born in May 1847 in Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Abraham Lowe Cutler and Harriet Hyde Sewall.² Elizabeth Lowe Cutler died after 1920.³

     Frank Henry Cutler was born on 8 September 1857 in Brookline, Massachusetts.² He was the son of Abraham Lowe Cutler and Harriet Hyde Sewall.¹ Frank Henry Cutler died in April 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the age of 61.³

     Harriet Sewall Cutler was born on 5 September 1853 in Brookline, Massachusetts.^2,3 She was the daughter of Abraham Lowe Cutler and Harriet Hyde Sewall.¹

     Herbert Dunning Cutler was born on 18 August 1848 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts.^2,3 He was the son of Abraham Lowe Cutler and Harriet Hyde Sewall.¹ Herbert Dunning Cutler died on 15 July 1908 in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, at the age of 59² and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.²

     Joseph Cutler married Rebecca Hoar, daughter of John Hoar and Ester Peirce, on 6 May 1755.

     Mary Frances Cutler was born in 1834.¹ She married James S. Wood, son of Joseph Wood Jr. and Sarah W. Dana.¹ Mary Frances Cutler died in 1913.¹

     Sarah Lincoln Cutler was born on 20 May 1859 in Brookline, Massachusetts.¹ She was the daughter of Abraham Lowe Cutler and Harriet Hyde Sewall.² Sarah Lincoln Cutler died on 30 September 1900 in Brookline, Massachusetts, at the age of 41 of cancer.³

     Dr. William H. Cutler was born in 1787 in Plainfield, Connecticut.^1,2 He married Abigail Lowe, daughter of Dr. Abraham Lowe and Charlotte Hale, in 1814.¹ Dr. William H. Cutler died in 1867.¹