High Street Cemetery · Hingham, Massachusetts
Theophilus Cushing
8 Aug 1725 – 21 Aug 1776 · about 51 years
From the burial index · with sourced details below
Theophilus Cushing lived from 8 Aug 1725 to 21 Aug 1776, a span of about 51 years.
Theirs is one of 214 markers bearing the name Cushing in this ground: kin, or several families, gathered together.
What the 1893 History of Hingham records confirmed
Matched matching birth and death dates in the Cushing family entry of the 1893 History of Hingham.
The entry, as printed
of Bath, Me. 31. Pyam 5 (Theophilus « Dauiel2 Matthew l), b. in Hing. Aug. 8, 1725. m. Jan. 24, 1751, Hannah Lincoln, dau. of Hon. Benjamin and Elizabeth (Thaxter) Lincoln. She was b. in Hing. Sept. 10, 1729, and d. 25 Aug. 1813, aet. 84th yr. He d. 21 Aug. 1776, aet. 51 yrs. « Far- mer." Constable 1755, and selectman 1770 and 1771. Was styled " Captain." Resided on Main St., So. Hing. Ch., all b. in Hing., were — i. Pyam, Dec. 9, 1751, d. unm., at Boston, 1778, leaving a will dated 4 Jan. 1778, proved 7 July foil., in which he gave "my watch,
1893 History of Hingham, Vol. II–III (Genealogical). Read on archive.org ↗
Where this was, today
The 1893 record places this person at Main St. in Hingham. Today that is Main Street (Route 228). Main Street, today Route 228, runs from Hingham Harbour south through the Liberty Plain district to South Hingham. The old South Hingham families lived along its southern stretch, the road High Street Cemetery faces. It is a short walk from the cemetery.
The street still carries the name; the exact house is not pinned, so read this as the block, not a doorstep.
Born in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA.
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