Deborah CUSHING

Deborah married Matthias BRIGGS on 9 May 1648. Matthias died on 24 Feb 1697. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Son of Peter Cushing and Susan Hawes

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For the first fifty years of his life he lived in Hardingham and Hingham, Norfolk County, England, until 1638, when with his wife and five children, and his wife's sister (widow Francis Riecroft, who died a few weeks after their arrival)he embarked in the ship "Diligent" of Ipswich, 350 tons, John martin, master, which sailed from Gravesend, 26 April 1638, with 133 passengers, among whom was Robert Peck, M.A., Rector of the parish of Hingham, England. The immediate occasion of their departure seems to have been rouble in ecclesiastical matters. Their rector, doubtless with the sympathy and aid of most of those constituting the emigrating part, had pulled down the rails of chancel and altar, and leveled the latter a foot below the church, as it remains to this day. Being prosecuted by Bishop Wren, he left the Kingdom, together with his fiends - who sold their estates at half their real value. the party, having landed at Boston, Mass., 10 Aug. 1638, immediately proceeded to their destination, Hingham, Mass., so named after the name of the former home of the Cushing family in England. At a town meeting held 1638, a house lot of five acres, first below Pear Tree Hill, on Bachelor (Main) St., was given to Matthew Cushing, and it continued in the possession of the family until 1887. He was early engaged in the public affairs of the town, became a deacon in Rev. Hobart's church, and was the progenitor of many eminent descendants. It is now a pretty well established fact that, with the exception of a few families who have come to this country during the past century, all the persons bearing the surname of Cushing in the United States and Canada are his direct lineal descendants. His will, which was a verbal one, was written after his decease by his children, who, under date of 15 Nov., 1660, pray that Daniel Cushing, Esq., their oldest brother, may be appointed administrator of their father's estate.

Matthew married Nazareth PITCHER on 5 Aug 1613. Nazareth was christened on 30 Oct 1586; died on 6 Jan 1682 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Daughter of Henry Pitcher of the famous family of Admiral Pitcher of England