Draft:John Cushing (judge)
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John Cushing (April 28, 1662 – January 19, 1738) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1728 to 1733. He was appointed by Governor William Burnet.
Born in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
His son, John Cushing Jr., and his grandson, William Cushing, both later served on the same court.
John Cushing was the son of John Cushing, who sailed from Gravesend, England, April 26, 1638 and arrived in Boston, August 10, 1638, and settled in Scituate. John Jr., was born April 28, 1662 and died 1737. He lived at Belle House Neck in. Scituate, near Little's Bridge. He was Chief Justice of the Inferior Court of Plymouth, from 1702 to 1710; Judge of the Superior Court from 1728 to 1737, and Counsellor of Massachusetts from 1710 to 1728.[1]
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References[edit]
- ^ John F. Simmons, "Professional Men", in Jedediah Dwelley, John F. Simmons, History of the Town of Hanover, Massachusetts, with Family Genealogies (1911), p. 95.
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