William Cushing family papers, 1657-1840.

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William Cushing family papers, 1657-1840.

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Personal and legal papers of the Cushing family of Hingham, Scituate and Boston, Mass., 1657-1835. Includes deeds, receipts, account books, and wills of John, Jeremiah, Nathaniel, Thomas and other members of the Cushing family, 1657-1750s; shipping records for the schooner Conclusion and sloop Charming kept by John Cushing, 1750-70; correspondence between John Cushing and his children Charles and William Cushing related to personal and business matters, 1761-90s, including a letter written by William to John, 1776, describing his case of smallpox in Boston; deeds for land in Scituate kept by Roland Cushing, 1780s; papers related to William Cushing's tenure as associate justice of the Supreme Court, 1790s; and an appraisal of Charles Cushing's land, 1835. Collection also includes a manuscript copy of John Adams's political essay entitled Novanglus written in April 1775 (which was never published); Cushing family genealogical notes compiled in 1830; and a will for Mary Channing Gibbs of Boston, 1824, with an accompanying legal letter, 1840.

4 boxes (and 1 box of photocopies)

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Cushing, Thomas, 1725-1788

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Thomas Cushing III (March 24, 1725 – February 28, 1788) was an American Founding Father, lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics, he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolution in 1774, serving as the lower house's speaker for most of those years. Because of his role as speaker, his signature was affixed to many documents protesting British policies, leading officials in London to consider him a dangerous radical. He ...

Adams, John, 1735-1826

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John Adams (1735-1826) was the second president of the United States, born in Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. He served as defense counsel for British soldiers accused of Boston Massacre in 1770; as delegate to Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778; as member of committee charged with drafting Declaration of Independence in 1776; as congressional commissioner to France from 1778 to 1779; as minister to United Provinces in 1780; and negotiated a loan from Dutch bankers in 1782. Adams join...

United States. Supreme Court

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Supreme Court of the United States, final court of appeal and final expositor of the Constitution of the United States. Within the framework of litigation, the Supreme Court marks the boundaries of authority between state and nation, state and state, and government and citizen. Scope And Jurisdiction The Supreme Court was created by the Constitutional Convention of 1787 as the head of a federal court system, though it was not formally established until Congress passed the Judiciary Act in 17...

Cushing, John, 1695-1778

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Cushing, Charles, 1734-1810.

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Cushing family

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Gibbs, Mary Channing, 1747-1824.

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Cushing, John, 1662-1737.

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Conclusion (Schooner)

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Cushing, William, 1732-1810

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Jurist. From the description of William Cushing correspondence, 1783. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 152569144 Cushing was chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1777-1788), and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1789-1810). George Simpson was cashier of the Bank of the United States. From the description of Letters to George Simpson, 1798, 1805. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 234338688 ...

Cushing, Nathaniel, 1762-1827

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Nathaniel Cushing ran an iron works, making anchors in particular, in Pembroke, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. For a time, he also had a store, but he closed that business to concentrate on the ironworks. Later, he was involved in the Pembroke Woolen and Cotton Manufactory. Nathaniel was the son of Nathaniel and Lucy Turner Cushing, born June 24, 1762. Nathaniel had brothers named Isaac (a merchant in Spain), Charles, and Ben (a ship captain), and sisters Mehitable and Lucy (married to a Mr. Es...

Charming (Sloop)

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Cushing, Roland, 1750-1789.

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