Ancestry of
Robert Cushman

(1664–1757)

Robert Cushman

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • Thomas Cushman Jr. 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Howland   
  • Birth Date:
  • 04 OCT 1664 [sic] 
  • Birth Location:
  • Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts 
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Sep 1757 
  • Death Location:
  • Kingston, Plymouth, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • Robert Cushman's birth date appears to have been calculated at his death. It is before his parents marriage and the year is believed to be incorrect. The year is probably 1665.

• Marriages for Robert Cushman

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  • Spouse:
  • Persis Lewis
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1697

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  • Spouse:
  • Prudence Sherman
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2 Feb 1744
  • Marriage Location:
  • Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Sources for Robert Cushman

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 431, 698.
  • ² Throop, Louise Walsh, et. al., Mayflower Families in Progress: George Soule of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Four Generations, 6th ed., Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2011), 85.
  • ³ Wakefield, Robert S. and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 17, Isaac Allerton, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants (2015), 13, 31-32.
  • ⁴ Wood, Ralph V., Jr., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Vol. 12, Francis Cooke, Revised Edition, Rockland, Maine: Picton Press (2011, revised edition 3rd printing), 284, 415.