Person Sheet


Name Ruth HOWLAND
Death bef 16792016
Father John HOWLAND (1601-1671)
Mother Elizabeth TILLEY (1607-1687)
Spouses:
1 Thomas CUSHMAN
Birth Sep 16372016
Death 23 Aug 1726, Plympton, Plymouth, MA2016
Marriage 17 Nov 1664, Plymouth, Plymouth, MA2016
Notes for Ruth HOWLAND
2016Ruth, daughter to John Howland, "one of the old comers" of the Mayflower, 1620. She was living when her father made his will, May 29, 1672, but died before 1679.
Notes for Thomas (Spouse 1)
2016Thomas Cushman's name appears in several lists of freemen' he was a surveyor of highways a number of years for the town of Plymouth. The homestead where he lived and died consisted of a large farm, with numerous buildings, lying on both sides of Colchester Brook at the west of the highway running northward from the meeting-house at Plympton. This site originally was in Plymouth, but when Plympton was set off, in 1707, the division brought it within the limits of the new town. Thomas Cushman and his wife Abigail were members of the Congregational Church at Plmpton, of which his brother Isaac was pastor.
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