[NOT KNOWN] CUSHMAN

(late-1400s - after 1523) - possibly Rolvendon, Kent, England

(First Generation - Cushman Family)

FATHER
MOTHER
NOT KNOWN
NOT KNOWN


ALL THAT IS KNOWN We know nothing of him or his wife. What we know of their four children comes primarily from their son John Cushman's 1523 will.

CHILDREN 2. i. Thomas CUSHMAN Please see his own page.
3. ii. John CUSHMAN Virtually all the information on this generation of the family comes from John's will.

The Will of John Crocheman of Rolvynden [co. Kent], 2 March 1523 [1523/4].

To be buried in the churchyard of Rolvynden. To the reparation of the church at Rolvynden 6s. 8d. Toward the buying of a cope for said church 5 marks. To an honest priest to sing in said church for one year 10 marks. To the highway between the house of John Asten the elder and the church, 3s. 4d. To Johane Crocheman my sister 13s. 4d. To Ewens widow, Vnkles widow, John Blacke, Elyne Wederley, and to Gabryell 12d. each. To Symon Harkwood all debts due me from him at this date, and to Goddeley Herkewod his wife a barn adjoining the house he dwelleth in, with the ground around it, with reversion at her death to her son John and his issue, and for default of such to her other children or else to my brother Thomas Crocheman and his heirs forever. To each of my feoffees, 12d. each. To Richard Moore 2s. All the residue of my goods, housing, lands, and rents to my brother Thomas Crocheman, he paying my debts and legacies, and if he refuse to do so, my feoffees, Richard More, Robert Kinchman, Richard Baker, and Symon Herkwod are to sell enough of my lands to fulfil my will and pay my debts. Executor: my brother Thomas. Witnesses: Sir Robert Wyse, vicar; Richard Moore, and Elyne Wyderley. Proved 10 May 1524 by Thomas Crocheman, the executor named. (Archdeaconry of Canterbury, vol. 16, fo. 6)[1]
4. iii. Johane CUSHMAN Johane is still unmarried at the time she is mentioned in her brother John's will: "To Johane Crocheman my sister 13s. 4d.[2]"
5. iv. Goddeley CUSHMAN Goddeley married Symon HARKWOD. She and her husband received the following bequest from her brother, John: "...To Symon Harkwood all debts due me from him at this date, and to Goddeley Herkewod his wife a barn adjoining the house he dwelleth in, with the ground around it, with reversion at her death to her son John and his issue, and for default of such to her other children or else to my brother Thomas Crocheman and his heirs forever..." In addition, the will indicates that Simon was one of John's feoffees. As such, he received an additional 12d. As indicated in the will, they had one son named John HARKWOD.




GENERATION Great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great (G13) Grandfather
FAMILY NUMBER 61,216
SOURCES 1. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society, 1845+), [NEHGR or Reg.], 68:327-8.

2. Ibid. 68:327.

3. Ibid. 68:328.

4. Ibid. 68:329.

5. Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633., (Boston: Great Migration Study Project, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), [GreatMig1620-1633], I:502.

6. [NEHGR or Reg.], 68:181, 328.

7. Ibid. 68:330.

8. Bradford, William, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647, Samuel Eliot Morison, ed., (New York 1952), [Bradford], 45,54,107,125,128,355,361,365,373.

9. From the Visitation Books of the Archdeacon of Canterbury, volume for 1598-1608, part 2, folio 31.

10. From the Roll of the Freemen of the City of Canterbury, printed in Cowper's Freemen of Canterbury, column 183.

11. This translation is reprinted from The Mayflower Descendant, vol 10, p. 193, where may be found also a printed copy and a facsimilie of the original Dutch record, which is entered in the Leyden records. Echt Book B. fo. 64. The record is preceded by words which in the English translation read: "Entered on 19 May, 1617".

12. [Bradford], 180.

13. [GreatMig1620-1633], I:503.

14. Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth..., Alexander Young, ed., (Boston 1844; rpt. Baltimore 1974), [YoungsPilgrimFathers], 255-68.

15. [GreatMig1620-1633], I:502-503.

16. [Bradford], 54.

17. Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, 12 volumes in 10, Nathaniel B. Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, ed., (Boston 1855-1861), [PCR], 1:45.

18. Underhill, Lora Altine, Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the Allied Families, (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1910), [Small], 688-93.

19. [GreatMig1620-1633], I:503-4.

20. [NEHGR or Reg.], 68:331.

21. [PCR], 12:4.

22. [NEHGR or Reg.], 68:183.

23. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society), [Torrey].

24. [Riggs, Henry Earle-prob.], The American Ancestors of Margaret Esther Bouton Thom and John Thom, ( [Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., Inc., 1944]), [ThomAncChart], Chart 4.

25. Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors; Their Part in Making American History, (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., ca. 1933), [RooseveltAnc], 108+.

26. Underhill, Lora Altine, Descendants of Edward Small of New England, and the allied Families, (rev. ed., Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934), [Small (ed. 2)], 670.

27. Jacobus, Donald Lines, The Waterman Family, 3 vols., (New Haven: E.F. Waterman, 1939-54), [Waterman (1939)], 1:646.

28. Caldwell, Charles T., A Branch of the Caldwell Family Tree: Being a Record of Thompson Baxter Caldwell and His Wife, Mary Ann (Ames) Caldwell of West Bridgewater, Mass., Their Ancestors and Descendants, (Washington, D.C.: The Olympia, 1906), [CaldwellAnc], 12.

29. [NEHGR or Reg.], 68:184-5; 72:11.

30. The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, vols. 1+, (New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1870+), [NYGBR], 43:294; 47:110.

31. Lineage Books of National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America, ([Washington], D.C., 1910), [LBDF&P], 4:167.

32. The Parish Register of St. Alphege, Canterbury, Kent, England. Printed in Cowper's Registers of St. Alphange, p. 113.

33. [Small], 671.

34. Dexter, Henry Martyn and Morton Dexter, The England and Holland of the Pilgrims, (London 1906; rpt. Baltimore 1978), [Dexter], 611.

35. [NEHGR or Reg.], 68:183; 15:30,169; 72:12.

36. The Mayflower Descendant, vols. 1-34, Bowman, George Ernest, ed., (Boston: Mayflower Society, 1899-1937), [MD], 10:193.

37. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Sv or Savage], 1:492.

38. Briggs, Mary Balch, We and Our Kinsfolk. Ephraim and Rebekah Waterman Briggs, their Descendants and Ancestors. With a few Collateral Branches, (Boston: Beacon Press, 1887), [BriggsAnc], 101.

39. [Small (ed. 2)], 672.

40. Plymouth County Probate, [PlymProb].

41. [NEHGR or Reg.], 68:183, 329.

42. From the Parish Register of St. Andrew, Canterbury, Kent, England. This is the only Cushman entry in the registers of the parish of St. Andrew, Canterbury, from 1575 to 1618, inclusive.

43. [PCR], 1:4,21.

44. Ibid. 12:5.

45. Ibid. 12:12.

46. [GreatMig1620-1633], I:503; I:37.

47. [MD], 4:37-42.

48. Cushman, Henry Wyles, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans, the Descendants of Robert Cushman the Puritan from the Year 1617 to 1855, (Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1855), [Cushman], 85.

49. Farwell, John Dennis, Jane Harter Abbott, and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., 1605 to 1927, with Twelve Generations of Their Descendants; Also Many Lineages of Allied Families, 2 vols., (Rutland, Vt.: F.H. Farwell, 1929), [Farwell(1929)], 472.

50. Snow, Nora Emma, The Snow-Estes Ancestry, 2 vols., (Hillburn, N.Y.: privately printed, 1939), [Snow-Estes], 1:494.

51. [NYGBR], 43:294.

52. [Riggs, Henry Earle-prob.], The American Ancestors of Margaret Esther Bouton Thom and John Thom, ([Ann Arbor, MI: Edwards Bros., Inc., 1944]), [ThomAncChart], 136, Chart 4.

53. Sumner, Edith Bartlett, Descendants of Thomas Farr of Harpswell, Maine and Ninety Allied Families, (Los Angeles: American Offset Printers, 1959), [Farr Anc.], 12.

54. [Sv or Savage], 1:38,494.

55. [MD], 16:62,63.

56. [NEHGR or Reg.], 1:50; 4:254; 8:270; 68:185; 72:12; 103:220.

57. The Genealogical Advertiser, vols., 1-4, (1898-1901, reprint 4 in 1, Baltimore: Genealogical Publ. Co., 1974), [GenAdv], 2:106.

58. Holman, Mary Lovering, The Scott Genealogy, (Boston, MA: 1919), [Scott (1919)], 90.

59. Pope, Charles Henry, The Pioneers of Maine and New Hampshire, 1623 to 1660, (Boston: C.H. Pope, 1908), [PopesPioneersofMEandNH], 16.

60. Perley, Sidney, The History of Salem, Massachusetts, 3 vols., (Salem: Sidney Perley, 1924), [Salem], 1:233.

61. [BriggsAnc], 102,110.

62. Allerton, Walter Scott, A History of the Allerton Family, (Chicago: S. W. Allerton, 1900), [Allerton (1900)], 30.

63. [RooseveltAnc], 110,115.

64. [Small (ed. 2)], 697,714.

65. Jones, Emma C.(Brewster), Brewster Genealogy, 1566-1907, a Record of the Descendants of William Brewster of the "Mayflower", Ruling Elder, Pilgrim Church, which Founded Plymouth Colony in 1620, 2 vols., (New York: The Grafton Press, 1908), [Brewster], 24.

66. Clarke, Mary (Bosworth), Bosworth Genealogy; a History of the Descendants of Edward Bosworth who arrived in America in the Year 1634; with an Appendix containing other Lines of American Bosworths, (San Francisco, 1926), [Bosworth], 382.

67. [GreatMig1620-1633], I:37.

68. [MD], 6:63.

69. [Bradford], 448.

70. [Small], 688.

71. Families of The Pilgrims, (Boston: MA Society of Mayflower Descendants), [FamPil].

72. Jameson, Ephriam Orcutt, The Cogswells in America, ([Boston: A. Mudge & Son], 1884), [Cogswell], 50.

73. [NEHGR or Reg.], 69:156; 72:12; 96:359.

74. [MD], 4:39; 17:224,228.

75. Lewis, Alonzo, & James Newhall, History of Lynn, Essex County, Mass., including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscot, and Nahant, 1629-1890, (Lynn: at the bookstore of George C. Herbert, [1890]), [LynnHist (1890)], 121.

76. [Farwell(1929)], 437.

77. [Small], 2:356,678.

78. Tingley, Raymon Meyers, Some Ancestral Lines; Being a Record of Some of the Ancestors of Guilford: Solon Tingley and His Wife, Martha Pamelia Meyers, Collected by Their Son, Raymon Meyers Tingley, (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Publishing Co., 1935), [Tingley-Meyers], 235.

79. [Farr Anc.], 200.

80. [ThomAncChart], 133.

81. [Cushman].

82. Lynn, Essex co., MA Vital Records, [LynnVR], II:174.

83. Smith, Ethel Farrington, comp., Adam Hawkes of Saugus, Mass. 1605-1672., (Baltimore: Gateway Press, 1980), [Hawkes (1980)].

84. [LynnVR], II:499.

85. [Hawkes (1980)], 31.

86. Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686, 9 volumes., (Salem 1911-1975), [EQC], I-VIII.

87. [Hawkes (1980)], 33-34.

88. Lewis, Alonzo, The History of Lynn, Including Nahant, (Boston: Samuel N. Dickinson, second edition, 1844), [LynnHist (1844)], 65.

89. The Probate Records of Essex County, [EssexProb or EPR], #12920 & #12911.

90. [Hawkes (1980)], 46-48.

91. Bodge, George Madison, Soldiers in King Philip's War, (1896), [Bodge], 406.

92. [Hawkes (1980)], 34.

93. [EssexProb or EPR], II:426.

94. Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 1+, (Salem, Mass., 1859+), [EIHC], 56:279.

95. [Hawkes (1980)], 37.

96. Ibid. 34-35.

97. Ibid. 36.

98. Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, [IQCR], 24d:7m:1678.

99. [Hawkes (1980)], 36-37.

100. Ibid. 33.

101. Ibid. 32-33.

102. [LynnHist (1844)], 120-121.

103. Ibid. 121.

104. Ibid. 123-124.

105. Ibid. 124-125.

106. Ibid. 127-129.

107. Ibid. 130-131.

108. Ibid. 138-139.

109. Ibid. 148-149.

110. Ibid. 154.

111. [Hawkes (1980)], 41.

112. [LynnHist (1844)], 167.

113. [Hawkes (1980)], 38.

114. Ibid. 38-45.



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