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2/16/1724-5 Elizabeth Clarke of Elizabeth Town. Administration on the estate of, granted to her eldest son, Richard Clarke. Lib. A, p. 238 | Moore, Elizabeth (I30331)
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21 Feb 1688 is given as date of death in the L.D.S. Ancestral File. John Blake and ??? Breck may have been married abt. 1629 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co, MA. !I.G.I. | Blake, John (I14767)
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21 of 1 mo. 1667 -Sarah Butterworth propounded and was assented to and appointed to be receaved the next day of our breaking bread." | Freeman, Sarah (I41547)
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21 Sep 1801 Jonathan Campbell md. to Mis Hannah Springer
!Vital Records of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Walden, Orange County, New York 1793-1906 | Family F257
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22 MAY 1874
FRIZ, MARY
JAMESTOWN
ANDREW J. - NY
MARY E. - NY | Friz, Etta May (I764)
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22th of 4th mo 1671 - Ob: Bowen propounded and is assented to.
In 1674 there was some trouble between Obediah and the church and there are a series of records. Finally he was reconcilled. His son Obediah Jr. was even more at odds with the Baptist church and ended up withdrawing from the church. | Bowen, Obediah (I50554)
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23rd day of the 4th month. | Adams, Jasper (I10705)
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25 May: Saartje, child of Abraham BENNET & Marytie CORSEN | Bennet, Saartje (I38260)
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25th day of the 1st month 1651. | Woodland, John (I15767)
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26 May 1844- m in this village on the 18th inst by B.B. Payne, Esq, Mr. Jeremiah Nodine to Miss Arville McDowell.
!From Marriages and Deaths Elmira Republican, Elmira Gazette, Elmira NY Abstracted by Isabell Rydel and retyped by Diane Bender | Family F1477
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26th of the 1 mo. 1651. | Farrington, Mary (I14337)
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27:12m;1665 | Grace (I50192)
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3 Dec 1793 Abraham Austin md. to Miss Hetty Campbell
!Vital Records of St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Walden, Orange County, New York 1793-1906 | Family F1959
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3 Nov 1674 is also given as a date of birth. This is probably incorrect. | Pond, Joshua (I14112)
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30 7 mo. 1641 | Ray, Simon (I50364)
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30 7mo 1659 - "Surveyor Generall of all ye armes, dyed & was buried ye day following." | Johnson, John (I35270)
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30 Aug 1730 - David Aldrich returns upon oath the names of the following Anabaptists:
David Aldrich, William Sprague both of Mendon; Joseph Scott, Sylvanus Scott, David Cook of Bellingham; Thomas Man Jr., Daniel Cook, of Wrentham; Josiah Thayer of Uxbridge. - Suffolk Court General Sessions, 291 | Aldrich, David (I26529)
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30 Nov 1669 is also given as William's date of birth. 20 Sep 1669 is also given as date of birth. | Pond, William (I14110)
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4 April 1774 is also given. Perhaps a baptism? | Bryant, Elizabeth (I39712)
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4th year. !St. Marks Epis. Ch. rec. p. 103 | Earle, Jennie Dorset (I33414)
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5 of 6th mo. 1669 - Mary the wife of Sampson Mason propounded for admission and was approved of; if no objection be brought against her by this day mo: | Butterworth, Mary (I50762)
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5th day of the 6th month. | Adams, Eleazer (I10701)
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6.149 DOROTHY (DORETTA) d/o John (5.91) b 9 Nov 1791, bp 18 Dec 1791 Fishkill, NY, d 25 (or 14) May 1817 age 25-6-16; m SYLVESTER EARL Z-504) b 27 Nov 1784, Great Lake, New Brunswick; d 27 April 1866 bur New Hackensack, NY; son of Edward Earle, b 27 Nov 1757 and Cynthia Van Duyn, b 15 Apr 1765. Sylvester Earl m (2) Ida Vanderbilt and had 4 children. Ch named in will of Ann (6.146) | Earle, Sylvester (I33550)
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6th day, 9th month (November), 1682 | Fairbanks, Mary (I10586)
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71y 2m | Post, Sarah (I46393)
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7th mo. 5th. 1651 | Sanders, Judith (I26748)
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8 Feb 1831 - "married in Lyons on Saturday last by William Voorhies, Mr. William Austin to Miss Harriet Horn of Lyons." | Family F2701
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9 July 1711, Martin Townsend of Watertown sold to Joshua Kendall, weaver, the house and four lots of land in Watertown "all formerly of Martin Townsend, his father, late of Carolina, deceased." -Bond | Townsend, Martin (I25043)
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; evidently died young. | Bullard, Elizabeth (I24635)
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?"James Bemas, Constable of New London died in 1665 and his wife, a sister of Joseph Coit, married secondly in 1673 Edward Griswold of Killingsworth. Two daughters of the Widow Bemas were baptized in 1671, viz., Rebecca and Mary." ?Caulkin?s History of New London, Conn., p. 283 | Coit, Sarah (I23917)
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A Brief History of St. Peter's Church, Chicago, IL
The founding of St. Peter's Church revolved around the energetic leadership of a young lay reader, Samuel Cook Edsall. On Whitsunday (Pentecost), May 29, 1887, he conducted the first service of an organizing group in the home of Charlotte Givins on Fletcher Street (Briar Place).
From St. Peter's Day, June 19, 1887, until July 15, 1887, they worshipped in a store on Clark Street. Then they moved into a newly constructed chapel, a frame structure on Fletcher Street, west of Clark Street. St. Peter's Mission was organized in June 1888. During the early years, Samuel Edsall was studying for ordination at Western Theological Seminary while serving at St. Peter's.
Rt. Rev. Samuel Cook Edsall, D. D. (1860-1917,) was consecrated as the missionary bishop of North Dakota in 1899. After his consecration in 1899, officiated by William E. McLaren of Chicago, George F. Seymour of Springfield, and William D. Walker of Western New York, Bishop Edsall spent three years in the North Dakota diocese, and then, at the request of Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822-1901,) accepted election as coadjutor bishop of Minnesota. Bishop Edsall, in 1902, became bishop of Minnesota at the Episcopal Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault, Minnesota. Samuel Cook Edsall, although Whipple's successor, centered his work in Minneapolis rather than at Faribault, where Whipple was buried. The Episcopal Church continued to recognize the Episcopal Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in Faribault as the "Bishop's Church," however, until 1941, when St. Mark's, Minneapolis, became the cathedral for the Minnesota Diocese. Our Merciful Saviour continues to function as a cathedral. | Edsall, Samuel Cook (I40975)
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A bronze tablet placed in 1955 in an old cemetery located on Glendale St. in Uxbridge says that Jacob is buried there. It is more probable that he, like his father, is buried in the "Old Cemetery" on Providence St. in Mendon. | Aldrich, Jacob (I26629)
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A codicil dated April 5, 1690 and his will were exhibited for probate November 8, 1690. | Wakely, Henry (I60317)
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A cutler by trade, John Jenks married at least twice. His two sons by his first wife, John Jenks, Jr., and Jonas Jenks, had already been apprenticed as cutlers when he married Sarah Fulwater, the daughter of a German immigrant, in 1599. | Jenks, John Sr. (I18507)
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A deed dated 19 Sep 1721 mentions she is deceased. | Lay, Abigail (I23528)
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A deed given by Nehemiah is on record at Ashford, CT, but he seems to not have lived there. He is probably the Nehemiah mentioned in the Rhode Island cesus for 1774 in Glocester. He was husbandman at Providence. | Lewis, Nehemiah (I27097)
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A deed says she died young, another Abigail Trask (perhaps a niece) was married (int.) to Benjamin Cook. | Trask, Abigail (I26572)
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A Methodist society was formed March 9, 1839, with William Powell, George Sim, Theodore Cross, Charles R. Sweet, and Stephen Post, trustees. They have a church at Philadelphia, built soon after the society was formed.
!History of Jefferson County p. 227
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Philadelphia was formed March 9, 1839, with William Powell, George Sim, Theodore Cross, Charles R. Sweet, and Stephen Post, trustees. Soon after the society was formed, they built a church at Pogeland, owned by William Powell. The organization continued until 1867, when it was merged in the society at Philadelphia village. This latter society was organized in 1843, with Sterling Graves, Richard Crabb, Benjamin Allen, and Nelson Chadwick, trustees. Their house of worship was erected the same year, at the southerly end of the village, on land purchased of Elizabeth Mosher. In 1858 a larger lot was purchased of Jesse Roberts, on the opposite side of the street, to which the church was removed, and afterwards enlarged and greatly improved. It will seat 250 persons, and is valued, including parsonage (erected in 1859) and other church property, at $4,000.
!Childs Gazatteer of Jefferson County, NY pp. 609-629
The Quakers in 1827 built a second meeting house and the next year had a division in the Society. (Part of the congregation became converts to the Hicksite doctrine.) The Quakers (in Philadelphia village) began to decline after this and passed out of existence between 1850 and 1860.
The Methodists were second in the field, on center lot 611, and began their missionary labors soon after the Quakers became divided, although it cannot be said that Methodism in the village was in any sense the outgrowth of that controversy. The first society of the denomination was formed March 9, 1838 with trustees: Wm. Powell, George Sim, Theodore Cross, Stephen Post & Charles R. Smith. In this year a house of worship was built on land of Wm. Powell at "Pogeland."
!p. 766 - Our County & Its People; Jefferson County, New York; Edgar C. Emerson, Editor; Boston Historical Company, 1898 | Post, Stephen (I46391)
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A PETITION TO THE GENERAL COURT OF NEW-PLYMOUTH
BY THOMAS CUSHMAN, SENIOR
To the much Honoured Corte now assembled in Plimmoth your humbile petitionnor desireth all happiness both here and hereafter.
May it please your Honors to take into your serious consideration the humbile petition of your poore suppliant, with the groundes of the same: It is well knowne to sundry of this Honored Corte that my father was an instrumente in the layinge the foundacion of this Colony, in reference both to Religious and civill interest, and expended both his estate and liffe in that service and came over in the second shipe, and returned againe the Colonizer agent, leaving my selfe behind amonst yourselves, who have shared together with your Honour in weell and woo, as our Gracious God hath bine plesed to order in his most wisse providence towards us.
And the lord hat bine plesed, of his goodness, to give me many children, and loth I am that they should laffe [leave] this colony for want of land to live upon; but that, if it may bee, they may reape some frute of my father1s and their grandfather's labour, whose end, with yours, was the settling of posterity in this wilderness. My humbile petition, therefore, is unto this much Honored Corte that: If there be any landes yet to be purchased, or purchased not yet disposed of -- neare to any society ayther begune or upon beginning, that your honours would be pleased to further me in granting some proportion as your wissdome shall see meete: and I shalbe responsible to bear the charge for the purchase acording to what may be my proportion.
Thus craving your favor and favorabil construction of my poor petition, I leave it with you, waiting for direction and answer herein when your honors shall see moste meete: Thus rests your humbile suppliant.
Signed: Thomas Cushman, senyor
Notes on Date and Grounds of the Petition:
This holograph, bearing the signature of Thomas Cushman, senior, derives from the archives of The Massachusetts Historical Society, and is here used by permission with the hearty thanks of the editor. Recently discovered in the researches of Franklin P. Cole, it has until now not been published nor, apparently, known to historians. The script has been transcribed by chirographer, Mrs. Ella Budd of Waybridge, Surrey, England, whose expertise has been employed in connection with other documents of these sudies (sic). The signature is not only clear but is, without question, that of Thomas Cushman, the surviving son of Robert, as may be seen by comparing it with that supplied in Wm. S. Russell's engravings of early Colony signatures (Pilgrim Memorials & Guide, Boston, 1855, p. 42). An interesting similarity to that of his father, Robert, is manifest by attention to the latter's written signature preserved in the Deposition of 1624 [Carla's note: Which may be found in a later section entitled More About Robert Cushman, etc.].
Unfortunately, the date of Thomas Cushman's petition to the Court of Plymouth is not supplied with the document. A clue to its date, however, is its stated reason for being, namely, that, as Thomas declares, the Lord has given him "many children" and that he is loath to contemplate their eventual departure from Plymouth Colony for want of land.
Of the "many children," the first child of Thomas and Mary Allerton Cushman, according to record, was a son, Thomas junior, born the 16th of September 1637. This obviously accounts for the signature of Thomas Cushman as "senyor." The date of the birth of Thomas Jr. indicates the probable latest date, otherwise unknown, for the marriage of Thomas Cushman and Mary Allerton as some time in December of the year 1636. On this premise, Thomas, at the time of his marriage, would have been thirtyu-one, and Mary, his wife, about twenty-six years of age. If seemingly belated, then to be noted is the fact that Thomas's grandfather, Thomas Couchman of Rolvende, Kent, likewise was at least thirty at the time of his marriage to Eleanor Hubbarde of that parish, 18 July 1568. Likewise, was his father not married until 1606 in his twenty-ninth year. The first child, Thomas Jr., was followed by two daughters in succession, Sarah and Lydia, neither of whose birth dates are supplied in the Cushman Genealogy; and so far as the records show, the fourth child and second son, Isaac, was born February 8, 1647/48. From these things, including the absence of birth dates for the female children of Thomas Cushman's family, it is evident that separatist congregationalism of the Plymouth Church rejected that Canon of the Church of England which, since 1538, had prescribed a recording in parish registers of the date infant baptisms, or others, together with those of all marriages and burials of either parishioners or strangers. Instead, it appears, record keeping of births was transferred at Plymouth to some office of the Magistracy -- as in Leyden, Holland -- and that church records of baptisms had not become operative by mid-seventeenth century in Plymouth Colony or that female birth dates were not recorded, or that records were carelessly handled. Thomas Cushman's petition was grounded in his claim to a gift of "many children" who would need farming land for continuing life in the colony. Likewise, it was implied that the grandchildren of Robert Cushman deserved fair consideration. It is barely possible that four living children might have sufficed for Cushman to speak publicly of "many children" with the birth of the fourth child, Isaac, in 1648. It would be better justified with the birth of the third son, Elkannah, born 1st of June 1651 and, more so, with the birth of Feare, a sixth child and son, born 10th February 1653. But it would indeed be a claim to "many children" to which an exception could hardly be taken with the birth of Eleazer, the seventh child and a son, born 20th February 1656/57. The eighth child was Mary, a daughter, the date of whose birth is not preserved to us. On this ground, we may reasonably surmise that Thomas Cushman's petition to the General Court for farming land for his "many children" was hardly justifiable prior to the birth of Elkannah in 1651, or better, that of Feare in 1653. In the interest of arriving at a probable date for Thomas Cushman's petition to the "Honourable Court" of Plymouth Colony, assembled, two possible dates are about equally plausible. The first is the annual meeting of the Assembly in the year 1651, the second, in the year 1657. They were years when, not Wm. Bradford, but Mr. Thomas Prince was elected to the office of Governor, indeed, by the 5th of June 1657 Wm. Bradford had died. Both years were late enough to justify Cushman's claim of "many children," which would have been hardly a secret. Furthermore, the nature of Cushman's claim for appropriate recognition of his father, Robert Cushman's, central role in the founding of the colony, beginning in 1617, and, thus, the just desert of his grandchildren for land to dwell upon, was on its face reasonable. Yet, had Wm. Bradford been in the chair presiding over the meeting, the appeal of Thomas Cushman to history would have been rather superfluous. Moreover, it might have appeared a bit jarring because, as a public statement, it might, for some, have implied willful neglect. Yet such a supposition of either ignorance or neglect would hardly have been entertained by Thomas Cushman who, from his fourteenth year in December 1621, had been received into the home of Bradford and, as a ward, had been reared in the Governor's household. If, however, we alter the presiding officer and dramatis personnae and envision Thomas Prince as in the chair for meeting of the Assembly in either 1651 or 1657, what is the altered dynamics? While much older than Thomas Cushman, Thomas Prince too had come to New Plymouth on the ship Fortune in 1621 along with Thomas and his father, Robert. Prince, moreover, had not come without interview and agreement with Robert Cushman in London, hence Prince had some experience of Cushman's agency in the migration. But more than thirty years had passed by either 1651 or 1657, and the membership of the Assembly was composed mainly, perhaps entirely, of second generation settlers. By 1657, "the Pilgrim fathers" were all gone. Though some younger contemporaries survived to be sure, none of the "first Beginners" -- to recall the word of Nathaniel Morton -- now remained. This Thomas Cushman knew quite well as he formulated his petition for land to the Assembly. He certainly could not count upon such vivid recollections as would be the case either with Gov. Bradford or Thomas Prince regarding the person and role of his father in the few but immensely important years of the founding process between 1617 and 1625. And finally, if, as Nathaniel Morton tells us, Wm. Bradford had died shortly before the June Assembly of Plymouth freemen, that fact alone could have easily cleared the way, as it also justified, Thomas Cushman's appeal to history before time's passage should further dim the community of recollection and of obligation to a principal founder, long departed, and on behalf of his grandchildren. If, as may well be the case, Thomas Cushman's petition went before the Colony Court in the year 1657 for deliberate consideration, he had already, by action of the Plymouth Church congregation, been Ruling Elder since 1649, or for eight years. Albeit, with proper decorum he adopts in Court the appropriate role of a humble suppliant in his petitioning. This manner and posture, suited to his political status as "freeman," is a clear indication of an acknowledged disjunction between church and state, functionally conceived, on the part of the chief ecclesiastical officer of New Plymouth. With a little reflection, it discloses to the discerning one of the manifest differences between the Plymouth and the Bay and Connecticut colonies from the early seventeenth century onward. Plymouth never drifted in the direction of theocracy unlike its sister colonies. It was fundamentally and from the start the American exemplum of the "free churches" and/or the separation of church and state.
2Thomas arrived at Plymouth in good health, in Nov., 1621. In a few days his father returned to England, leaving his only son in the family of his particular friend, Gov. Bradford. ... If it is true that, "As the twig is bent the tree's inclined," then we have the very best evidence that Gov. Bradford was faithful to the trust imposed in him by his absent friend. In a letter from Gov. B. to Robert Cushman, dated June, 1625, he says, "Your son is in good health (blessed be God). ... I hope God will make him a good man". And such proved to be the case as his history will show.
3-16-27.
At a public Court held on the 22d of May, it is considered by the whole company, that the cattle which were the company's, to wit--the cows and the goats--should be equally divided by lot to all persons of the same company. The cattle and goats were, therefore, divided into twelve lots, and thirteen persons appointed to each lot.
The eleventh lot fell to Gov. Bradford and those with him, among whom was Thomas Cushman, then in the 20th year of his age."To this lot fell an heifer of the last year, which was of the great white back cow that was brought over in the Ann, and two she goats." [Footnote: The first cattle imported from England were "a bull and three heifers," by Edward Winslow, in 1624] Jan. 1, 1633. These following were admitted into the freedom of the society, viz: Mr. William Collins, Thomas Willett, John Cooke and Thomas Cushman. He was then twenty-five or twenty-six years of age.
July 1, 1634. "At a generall Court holden before the Governor and Councill, Thomas Cushman plantife agaynst John Combe, Gent. defendant, being cast and adjudged to pay the sayd summe of ten pounds to the plaintife or his Assigns at or before the first of Aug. or else to deliver to him a sufficient cow cafe weaned or weanable." [Footnote: Plymouth Colony Records; Court Order 3, vol. 1]
1635. Thomas Cushman first served as a Juryman.
1635 or 36 (about). He m. Mary Allerton, the third child of Isaac Allerton, who came over in the Mayflower in 1620. ... In that matrimonial relation they lived together the long period of fifty-five years: she surviving him nearly ten years.
1637. There was granted "to Thomas Cushman the remaynder of the marsh before the house he liveth in wch Mrs. Fuller doth not use and the little pcell at the wading place on the other side Joanes River." It is supposed that he removed to Jones River (now Kingston, Plymouth Co MA, Plymouth Co MA) about this time, which was not long after he was married, and that there he lived and died.
1645. He purchased "Prence's farm" at Jones River (now "Rocky Nook" in Kingston, Plymouth Co MA, Plymouth Co MA) by exchanging land at Sowams [Footnote: On Naragansett Bay in Rhode Island] for it, for ¶75. It was first owned by his father-in-law, Isaac Allerton. The exact locality of his house is now pointed out, and a spring of water near it has for many years received the cognomen of "the Elder's Spring," from Elder Thomas Cushman, whose house stood near it. It is located in that part of Kingston, Plymouth Co MA, Plymouth Co MA now called "Rocky Nook," about fifty rods northerly from the present traveled highway, on the border of the marsh. A description and the boundaries of the land as given in the early Colony Records, show, beyond a doubt, that the tradition respecting that spring and the location of the Elder's house, must be correct. Men and things have changed in the course of two hundred years: yet the topography of that vicinity remains the same. The "Elder's Spring" is often visited by antiquarians, and by those who have sprung from the stock of the Pilgrims, and who venerate their deeds. The writer of this has drank from that pure spring, where his venerable ancestor allayed his thirst in days of yore; and he hopes he has thus become inspired with something of the Pilgrim's faith, and a fearless determination, to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience and judgment; and in the strong and emphatic language of another [Footnote: Thomas Jefferson's letter to Dr. Rush, dated at Monticello, Virginia, Sept. 23, 1800], "has sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
1649. The office of Ruling Elder of the Church at Plymouth, having become vacant by the death of the venerable Elder Brewster, Thomas Cushman was appointed to that office and continued in it to his death, a period of over 43 years. He was ordained to that office by appropriate ceremonies and religious services, on Friday the 6th of April, 1649. In order to show the importance of the office of Ruling Elder, that was held for so long a period by our worthy ancestor, we give, from Prince's Chronology, the following summary of the religious tenets of the Plymothean Fathers, so far as they relate to Church government: "They maintained that every Christian congregation ought to be governed by its own laws, without depending on the jurisdiction of Bishops, or being subject to the authority of Synods, Presbyteries, or any ecclesiastical assembly whatever. They maintained that the inspired scriptures only contain the true religion, and that every man has the right of judging for himself and worshipping according to his apprehension of the meaning of them. Their officers were Pastors or teaching Elders who have the power of overseeing and teaching, and of administering the sacraments, etc. 32d, Ruling Elders who are to help the Pastor in ruling and overseeing. 33d, Deacons who are to take care of the treasury of the Church; distribute to the needy and minister at the Lord's Table." We thus see that Thomas Cushman held a highly responsible and important office in the hierarchy of the Plymouth Colony.
April 4, 1654. Mrs. Sarah Jenny [Footnote: The wife of John Jenny, who came over in the ship Ann, in 1623. He was a member of Rev. Mr. Robinson's Church at Leyden], by her Will, gave "To Elder Cushman the Bible which was my daughter Susannah's."
21We take the following statement of the duties and character of Elder Thomas Cushman: "About four or five years after Mr. Brewster's death, (he d. Tuesday, 16 April, 1644), the Church chose Mr. Thomas Cushman as his successor in the office of Ruling Elder, son of that servant of Christ, Mr. Robert Cushman, who had been their chief agent in transacting all their affairs in England, both before and after their leaving of Holland, till the year 1625. And this his son, inheriting the same spirit and being completely qualified, with gifts and graces, proved a great blessing to the Church; assisting Mr. Rayner [Footnote: Pastor of the Church at Plymouth] not only in ruling, catechising and visiting, but also in public teaching, as Mr. Brewster had done before him: it being the professed principle of this Church in their first formation to choose none for governing Elders but such as are able to teach; which abilities (as Mr. Robinson observes in one of his letters) other reformed churches did not require of their Ruling Elders."
Extract from a Deed of land:
"Two acres of marsh meadow bee it more or lesse lying before the house and land of the Elder Cushman at Joaneses Riever next unto a pcell of meadow which was Phineas Prats." (Footnote: Plymouth Records.]
March 29, 1653. Ousamequin (Massasoit) and his oldest son Wamsitto convey by deed a tract of land in Rehoboth to Thomas Prence, Thomas Cushman and others, for which they pay the sum of thirty-five pounds sterling. This is another evidence of the justice of our fathers. They showed their faith by their works. "About the year 1650 to 1660, the Quakers proved very troublesome to the Church and subverted many. The Lord was pleased to bless the endeavors of their faithful Elder, Mr. Cushman, in concurrence with several of the abler brethren, to prevent the efficacy of error and delusion; and (though destitute of a Pastor) the body of the Church were upheld in their integrity and in a constant opposition to their pernicious tenets. And we desire, say the records, that the good providence of God herein may never be forgotten, but that the Lord may have all the praise and glory thereof; for how easily might these wolves in sheep1s clothing have ruined this poor flock of Christ, if the Lord had not interposed by his almighty power and goodness; improving this our good elder as a special instrument in this worthy work, both by teaching the will of God every Lord's day, for a considerable time, plainly, powerfully and profitably; and seconding the same by a blameless life and conversation."
"After Rev. Mr. Rayner left, the worship of God was carried on by their Elder, Mr. Cushman, assisted by some of the brethren: insomuch that not one Sabbath passed without two public meetings." [Footnote: Cotton's account of Plymouth Church.]
22The bounds of Elder Thomas Cushmans--12 Acres Meadow The Bounds of the twelve acrees of meaddow belonging to the Elder Thomas Cushman at Wenatuxet is as followeth bounded with a white oake tree at the Northerly Corner sd tree is marked on 4 sides and thence Rainging across the Meaddow westward to a Red oake tree marked on 4 sides which is the bounds betwen the sd Elder Cushmans Meadow and Mr John Howlands meaddow and from sd Red oake Rainging up the Moaddow southward to a pine tree marked on 4 sides and from thence Rainging aCross the meaddow to a bunch of maples standing by the meadow which is the bounds betwen John Dunhams lot and the above sd Elder Cushmans
[167.] New Plimouth
Att A meting held att plimouth the 22th of february 1650 by Mr Howland Mr Willett John Dunham John Cook William Paddy & Thomas Clarke
Wee grant to mr howland Elder Cushman John Cook John Dunham senior Twelve Acrees Apece of meddow ground att Wennituxett To take it on both sides of the River so as others that shall have more grants theare be not prejudiced.
Will: About a year before his death, Elder Cushman made his Will. As a part of his history, we give it entire.
From the quantity of real estate devised to his children, and the amount of the inventory of his personal property, --a copy of which is subjoined, --we must infer that the Elder was prosperous in temporal things, as well as in spiritual. His personal estate amounted to ¶50, of which 4 was in books. Considering the value of the money at that time, --much greater than now, --he must have been quite wealthy. | Cushman, Thomas (I41407)
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A portion of Sabin's early life was passed in Maine, while engaged in the lumbering business. He then established himself in Boston, MA, a member of the business firm of Peters & Pond, and for many years, was a respected and thriving merchant of that city. During the War of 1812, he lost a vessel and cargo by French spoilation. He subsequently moved to Ellsworth, ME. !Daniel POND & His Descendants, p.96 | Pond, Sabin (I17510)
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A possible surname of Honora was Pawley. | Family F1043
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A stone in the north east quarter of the cemetery has the name Townsend split into "Towns" and "end" on two separate lines. | Townsend, Jonathan (I25011)
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A true inventory of the estate, both of Lands, Housings and Cattle and moveable goods of Thomas Wight, senr late of Medfield, in the County of Suffolk, in New England, who deceased March the seventeenth, 1673, with all other dues to him belonging, as it was apprized the 24th. 1 mo. 1673-4, by those underwritten.
In the Parlor.
Imprimis--To his books, 1 10 00
To his wearing apparel, 11
feather bed, bedstead and covering, 7
money, 4 2 3
a cup board, table and chairs, 1 6
In the Parlor Chamber.
a bedstead and furniture, 4 6
a chest of linen, 4 13
several pieces of linen and woolen cloth, 6 15
31 lb. of yerne, 2 15
In the Little Bedroom.
a chest, bedstead and bedding, 3 10
In the Hall.
tables, forms and a chair, 0 16
andirons, firepan, tonges, hakes, 1
bellows, combs, hourglass, shears 0 12 6
In the Buttery.
14 peices of pewter, 2 18
iron pots and brass vessels, 3 16
frying pan, gridiron, mortar, spitt and several vessells and lumber, 1 10
In the Leanto Chamber.
Flax, old iron, 3 corn sacks and lumber, 3 11
In the Hall Chamber.
a bedstead and bedding and spinning wheel, 1 13
In the Garrett.
wheat and rye and Indian corn, 4
fann and lumber, 0 8
In the Cellar.
a tub of pork, suet, lumber, 2 14
In the back Leanto.
several iron tools and instruments, 2 16
spinning wheel, saddle and horse furniture, stock cards and grindstone, 1 7
To a musket and pike, 0 10
cart, plough, chains and hooks, 2
cart rope and plough irons, 0 8
two cows, two oxen, one yearling and one calf, 18
hay in the barn, ladder and pitch forks, 1 14
5 sheep and two swine, 3 13
the dwelling house and barn and other outhouses, with twelve acres of land on which the building stands, 150
pasture land and orchard adjoining to the house lot, 20
16 acres and one rod of swamp land, 8
4 " of meadow on the mill brook, 20
11 " of meadow land by Charles River, 40
11 " of upland on pine hill, 10
14 " of land on round plain, 17
7 " and one rod of land, 6
16 " of land by Joseph Morse, 8
8 " of land by London farm, 4
10 " and half of wood land west Charles River, 5
7 " of land and 25 poles, 4
16 " and half of land on long plain, 10
166 " of land on the new grant, 10
3 " of swamp land, 3
4 " of meadow land, 12
110 " of land in Dedham bounds, 15
Debts due to the estate, 22 1 04
(???)
¶ 463 15 01
Remembered since in land, 1
3 acres of land more, 1 10
Debts to be paid out of the estate, 2 18
his mark.
TIMOTHY T DWIGHT.
HENRY ADAMS.
JOHN MEDCALFE
Henry Wight and Ephraim Wight personally appeared April 2d. 1674, before John Leverett, Esq. Govr. and Edwd Tyng, Assist. and made oath that this paper contains a just and true inventory of the estate of their late father, Thomas Wight, of Medfield, to the best of their knowledge; and that when they know more they will discover the same.--Vol. 7, p. 447.
In the Probate Records, the date of the death of Thomas Wight, prefixed to the Inventory of his estate, is March 17th, 1673. (The year 1674, according to the manner of dating at that time, not commencing till eight days later, March 25th.) His estate was apprized seven days after his decease, "the 24th. 1 mo. 1673-4." His death is recorded in the Medfield Records under the year 1674, as it should be. | Wight, Thomas (I12978)
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A witnessed and notarized statement of her death had to be submitted to the Federal Government (Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions) so that her Widow's Pension could be stopped as this marriage had no children. The statement of death was notarized on April 19, 1922 by BERTHA A. BROWNELL, Notary Public in Lowville, NY. | Slocum, Frances Adella (I50716)
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A. D. Townsend & Oselia Barton, 23 Feb 1878; Book A, p. 108
IGI entry:
Addison E. TOWNSEND
Sex: M
Marriage(s):
Spouse: Oranda SCHANCK
Marriage: 23 Feb 1881
Clinton', 'Michigan | Family F1456
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A. J. Williams
2 white males
1 white female | Williams, Adam I. (I47076)
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A.W. Ahlberg married Anna ???. Anna was b. 18 Feb 1874 in Bruurskog (sp?), Sweden. He arrive @ G.R. in 1890, she in 1886.
!Records of the Swedish Mission Church
book #11, page 325
Andrew Ahlberg, age 25, born: Sweden
occupation: finisher
father: Jacob Ahlberg; mother: Eva Johnson
Anna Anderson ? age 22, born: Sweden
father: Anders Anderson; mother: Gusta Langreen
witnesses: K. Malinberg & Sophie Anderson | Family F42
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Abbie died of apoplexy according to the death record at Ionia. Age at death 53y, 8m, 13d. Her parents are named on the record.
Obituary is published in the St. Johns News: TOWNSEND Abbie E. Jan 13 1898 SJN 20 Jan 1898 | Brayton, Abbie E. (I24081)
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Abby Morris, wife of John F. Morris of Seneca Falls, age 39 died June 12, 1868. (Source: Seneca Falls newspaper 13 June 1868.)
An Abba A. READMAN, age 40 (housekeeper) appears with the John MORRIS family in the 1870 census at Seneca Falls, NY. This is perhaps a relative helping John with the younger children. Census date is July 11, 1870. | Heath, Abby A. (I1288)
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Abel lived at Franklinton and it is said that he settled there early in the 19th century. He probably accompanied his father there. | Bixby, Abel (I48740)
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