Gravestone transcription:
Sacred to the memory of Hon. Charles Cushing, Esq., who departed this life, after a lingering and painful disease, which he supported with Christian fortitude and resignation, Nov. 25th, 1809, aet. 65.
He served his country in her contest for the obtainment of freedom and independence, and has since sustained with honor several important offices, both civil and military. He was no less endeared to his family connections by his disposition to disseminate knowledge and promote the social virtues than to the community by his public spirit and charity. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
Inscription from North Burial Ground, Lunenburg, Mass.
Son of Hon Jacob Cushing and Mary Chauncy, husband of Hannah Croade and father of the following children, all born in Hingham: * Mary Cushing Harrington 1769-1838 * Salome Cushing Bent 1770-1834 * Charles Cushing 1771-1785 * Chauncy Cushing 1772-1793 * Edmund Cushing 1774-1851 * Josiah Cushing 1778-1779 * Priscilla Cushing Sterns 1779-1866 * Josiah Cushing 1782-1795 * Hannah Cushing 1784-1784 * Hannah Cushing Harrington 1786-1811 * Charles Cushing 1789-1789 * Charles Cushing 1792-1792 Charles Cushing, Hon. Colonel (1744 - 1809) was a member of the Committee of Correspondence 1779-81, and served with the Continental Army all through the Revolutionary War. As Captain of a Hingham company in General Thomas' command, he was in the expedition to Canada, and saved his company from the ravages of small-pox, so generally disastrous to the army in that expedition by the then ultra proceeding innoculation. He returned on horseback across the Hoosac Ridge. Afterwards, Colonel of a Continental Regiment. Charles was a Representative 1780-81-84-90-91-92-93, and member of the Senate in 1794. He removed with his family, in 1791, from Hingham to Lunenburg, Massachusetts and settled on what has since been called the "Brook Farm", about one mile west of the centre of the town, where he died in 1809. His wife lived to be quite old with her daughter Mrs. Harrington; she used to say she was the youngest of 16 sisters. Lincoln's History of Hingham says: "Charles Cushing was one of the most respectable and influential Whigs of the Revolution in Hingham. He was a gentleman of excellent natural abilities, zealous and persevering in whatever he engaged." Bio by Warren Cushing
Sacred to the memory of Hon. Charles Cushing, Esq., who departed this life, after a lingering and painful disease, which he supported with Christian fortitude and resignation, Nov. 25th, 1809, aet. 65.
He served his country in her contest for the obtainment of freedom and independence, and has since sustained with honor several important offices, both civil and military. He was no less endeared to his family connections by his disposition to disseminate knowledge and promote the social virtues than to the community by his public spirit and charity. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
Inscription from North Burial Ground, Lunenburg, Mass.
Son of Hon Jacob Cushing and Mary Chauncy, husband of Hannah Croade and father of the following children, all born in Hingham: * Mary Cushing Harrington 1769-1838 * Salome Cushing Bent 1770-1834 * Charles Cushing 1771-1785 * Chauncy Cushing 1772-1793 * Edmund Cushing 1774-1851 * Josiah Cushing 1778-1779 * Priscilla Cushing Sterns 1779-1866 * Josiah Cushing 1782-1795 * Hannah Cushing 1784-1784 * Hannah Cushing Harrington 1786-1811 * Charles Cushing 1789-1789 * Charles Cushing 1792-1792 Charles Cushing, Hon. Colonel (1744 - 1809) was a member of the Committee of Correspondence 1779-81, and served with the Continental Army all through the Revolutionary War. As Captain of a Hingham company in General Thomas' command, he was in the expedition to Canada, and saved his company from the ravages of small-pox, so generally disastrous to the army in that expedition by the then ultra proceeding innoculation. He returned on horseback across the Hoosac Ridge. Afterwards, Colonel of a Continental Regiment. Charles was a Representative 1780-81-84-90-91-92-93, and member of the Senate in 1794. He removed with his family, in 1791, from Hingham to Lunenburg, Massachusetts and settled on what has since been called the "Brook Farm", about one mile west of the centre of the town, where he died in 1809. His wife lived to be quite old with her daughter Mrs. Harrington; she used to say she was the youngest of 16 sisters. Lincoln's History of Hingham says: "Charles Cushing was one of the most respectable and influential Whigs of the Revolution in Hingham. He was a gentleman of excellent natural abilities, zealous and persevering in whatever he engaged." Bio by Warren Cushing
Gravestone transcription:
Sacred to the memory of Hon. Charles Cushing, Esq., who departed this life, after a lingering and painful disease, which he supported with Christian fortitude and resignation, Nov. 25th, 1809, aet. 65.
He served his country in her contest for the obtainment of freedom and independence, and has since sustained with honor several important offices, both civil and military. He was no less endeared to his family connections by his disposition to disseminate knowledge and promote the social virtues than to the community by his public spirit and charity. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
Inscription from North Burial Ground, Lunenburg, Mass.
Son of Hon Jacob Cushing and Mary Chauncy, husband of Hannah Croade and father of the following children, all born in Hingham: * Mary Cushing Harrington 1769-1838 * Salome Cushing Bent 1770-1834 * Charles Cushing 1771-1785 * Chauncy Cushing 1772-1793 * Edmund Cushing 1774-1851 * Josiah Cushing 1778-1779 * Priscilla Cushing Sterns 1779-1866 * Josiah Cushing 1782-1795 * Hannah Cushing 1784-1784 * Hannah Cushing Harrington 1786-1811 * Charles Cushing 1789-1789 * Charles Cushing 1792-1792 Charles Cushing, Hon. Colonel (1744 - 1809) was a member of the Committee of Correspondence 1779-81, and served with the Continental Army all through the Revolutionary War. As Captain of a Hingham company in General Thomas' command, he was in the expedition to Canada, and saved his company from the ravages of small-pox, so generally disastrous to the army in that expedition by the then ultra proceeding innoculation. He returned on horseback across the Hoosac Ridge. Afterwards, Colonel of a Continental Regiment. Charles was a Representative 1780-81-84-90-91-92-93, and member of the Senate in 1794. He removed with his family, in 1791, from Hingham to Lunenburg, Massachusetts and settled on what has since been called the "Brook Farm", about one mile west of the centre of the town, where he died in 1809. His wife lived to be quite old with her daughter Mrs. Harrington; she used to say she was the youngest of 16 sisters. Lincoln's History of Hingham says: "Charles Cushing was one of the most respectable and influential Whigs of the Revolution in Hingham. He was a gentleman of excellent natural abilities, zealous and persevering in whatever he engaged." Bio by Warren Cushing
Sacred to the memory of Hon. Charles Cushing, Esq., who departed this life, after a lingering and painful disease, which he supported with Christian fortitude and resignation, Nov. 25th, 1809, aet. 65.
He served his country in her contest for the obtainment of freedom and independence, and has since sustained with honor several important offices, both civil and military. He was no less endeared to his family connections by his disposition to disseminate knowledge and promote the social virtues than to the community by his public spirit and charity. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord; yea, saith the Spirit, for they rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.
Inscription from North Burial Ground, Lunenburg, Mass.
Son of Hon Jacob Cushing and Mary Chauncy, husband of Hannah Croade and father of the following children, all born in Hingham: * Mary Cushing Harrington 1769-1838 * Salome Cushing Bent 1770-1834 * Charles Cushing 1771-1785 * Chauncy Cushing 1772-1793 * Edmund Cushing 1774-1851 * Josiah Cushing 1778-1779 * Priscilla Cushing Sterns 1779-1866 * Josiah Cushing 1782-1795 * Hannah Cushing 1784-1784 * Hannah Cushing Harrington 1786-1811 * Charles Cushing 1789-1789 * Charles Cushing 1792-1792 Charles Cushing, Hon. Colonel (1744 - 1809) was a member of the Committee of Correspondence 1779-81, and served with the Continental Army all through the Revolutionary War. As Captain of a Hingham company in General Thomas' command, he was in the expedition to Canada, and saved his company from the ravages of small-pox, so generally disastrous to the army in that expedition by the then ultra proceeding innoculation. He returned on horseback across the Hoosac Ridge. Afterwards, Colonel of a Continental Regiment. Charles was a Representative 1780-81-84-90-91-92-93, and member of the Senate in 1794. He removed with his family, in 1791, from Hingham to Lunenburg, Massachusetts and settled on what has since been called the "Brook Farm", about one mile west of the centre of the town, where he died in 1809. His wife lived to be quite old with her daughter Mrs. Harrington; she used to say she was the youngest of 16 sisters. Lincoln's History of Hingham says: "Charles Cushing was one of the most respectable and influential Whigs of the Revolution in Hingham. He was a gentleman of excellent natural abilities, zealous and persevering in whatever he engaged." Bio by Warren Cushing
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