The House of Perkins :
Cushing branch
… Captain Robert Cushing
(born 1755 in Scituate, Massachusetts) was of a long established New England
family, whose ancestor, the first Matthew Cushing, arrived in this country
in 1638. Robert Cushing married Ann Maynard "Nancy" Perkins and they had two
children : Ann, who married Henry Higginson and John Perkins Cushing.
Captain Cushing was a restless man who left his wife in charge of the family
while he pursued fortune that eluded him. When Nancy died of smallpox, John
Perkins Cushing (1787-1862) was raised by his uncle, Thomas Handasyd Perkins
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