Person Record

Metadata

Name

Cushing, Ezekiel

Born

28 Apr 1698

Birthplace

Scituate, MA

Father

Jeremiah Cushing, Reverend

Mother

Hannah Loring

Spouse

Hannah Doane, m. 1720
Mary Jordan Parker

Children

Loring Cushing
Ezekiel Cushing
Jeremiah Cushing
Hannah Cushing Robinson
Lucy Cushing (died in infancy)
Lucy Cushing Otis
Phoebe Cushing Otis
John Cushing
Thomas Cushing
Nathaniel Cushing

Occupation

Merchant, extensively involved in fisheries and West India trade, owning many schooners and sloops, with wharf and warehouse at Cushing's Point.
Selectman of (then) Falmouth, Maine, for nine years
Commander of the County Regiment
Justice of the Peace, 1756, 1760 and 1761
Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, 1760 to 1763
Colonel, Massachusetts Militia

Notes

He was a merchant and, about 1719, went to Provincetown, MA, with his brother Jeremiah where they engaged in the fishing and whaling industry, owning many schooners and sloops.
He moved to (then) Falmouth, Maine, in 1738, and occupied Cushing's Point in the Purpooduck area of the town. He at one time owned Cushing's Island, ME. He also owned the greater part of Long Island, Maine, which was bequeathed to his children in his will.
Gov. Shirley dined at Col. Cushing's home on July 23, 1754.
As Commander of the County Regiment, in 1751, Cushing was able to furnish 50 men from his regiment to defend the inhabitants against the Indians, and 100 men to protect the Commissioners while they were arranging the terms of peace.