Ancestry of
Scott Foley

TV, Stage and Movie Actor

Samuel Cushman

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Scott Foley — 8th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 174 
  • Father:
  • Jabez Cushman 
  • Mother:
  • Sarah Padelford   
  • Birth Date:
  • 6 Apr 1742 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1785 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Warrentown Cemetery, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Lydia Gano
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  • Child:

  Jane Cushman (Ahnentafel No:87 )

  • Notes: 

  • Published sources give both 1742 and 1743 as the year of Samuel Cushman's birth. His tombstone gives his age as 44 at his death in 1785 indicating a birth year of 1741. No birth record has been found for Samuel Cushman to confirm his birth year.

• Sources for Samuel Cushman

  • ¹ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 03/23/2019).
  • ² Cushman, Henry Wyles, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, The Puritan . . ., Boston: Little, Brown and Company (1855), 161, 254-255.
  • ³ Van Antwerp, Lee Douglas and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 9, Francis Eaton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (1996), 104.
  • ⁴ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 90.

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