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Sarah Cushman

Sarah Cushman[1, 2, 3, 4]

Female 1743 - Bef 1827  (< 83 years)


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  • Name Sarah Cushman 
    Birth 6 Nov 1743  Lebanon, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Gender Female 
    Mayflower Descent Yes. 
    Residence Abt 1770  Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [5] 
    Probably moved to Virginia with family at or near the same time as the Benjamin Stites family. 
    Residence Aug 1789  United States--Ohio--Hamilton County--Columbia Township Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Moved with probably all her children except Cyrenius to Columbia Township, Northwest Territory (now in Hamilton County, Ohio). 
    Residence 5 May 1794  United States--Ohio--Hamilton County--Columbia Township Find all individuals with events at this location  [7] 
    Identified as widow of David Jennings on his account at Gano and Stanley store. 
    Residence 26 Aug 1794  United States--Ohio--Hamilton County Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9] 
    Appeared as witness in probate court. 
    Residence 4 Jul 1801  United States--Ohio--Hamilton County--Columbia Township Find all individuals with events at this location  [10] 
    Joined Columbia Baptist Church. 
    Residence 11 Sep 1805  United States--Ohio--Hamilton County--Columbia Township Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 
    Sold land. 
    Residence 10 Jun 1812  United States--Ohio--Montgomery County Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Miami County land patent for "Sarah Jennings, of Montgomery County, Ohio". 
    Residence 7 Aug 1820  United States--Ohio--Clark County--Bethel Township Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    Probably one of the females over 45 living with daughter Hannah and her husband Elnathan Cory. Census. 
    Residence From Abt 1824 to Bef 2 Aug 1827  United States--Ohio--Montgomery County--Wayne Township Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 14] 
    "Some time between 1820 and when she died before 2 Aug 1827, she probably moved in with her son, Henry and family, who lived in Wayne Twp, Montgomery Co, Ohio. Henry's first wife, Sarah Smith Jennings had died 6 Dec 1824, and Sarah probably moved there to help with the young children."

    "Among the early settlers of [Wayne] township, the following named located prior to the year 1810: [...] Henry Jennings [...] Levi Jennings [...]" (Drury, v. 1, p. 868) 
    Death Bef 2 Aug 1827  United States--Ohio--Montgomery County Find all individuals with events at this location  [13, 15] 
    Burial Bef 2 Aug 1827  United States--Ohio--Montgomery County--Huber Heights--Jennings Cemetery Find all individuals with events at this location  [13] 
    • No headstone.
    Person ID I851  Cook-Delmotte Family | Cook
    Last Modified 10 Feb 2026 

    Father Thomas Cushman,   b. Abt 1705, Lebanon, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1 Jun 1765, New Providence, Union County, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 60 years) 
    Mother Mary Unknown,   b. ?, ? Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 17 Jun 1764, ? Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage Abt 1728  United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [16] 
    Family ID F442  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family David Jennings,   b. Abt 1741, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 20 Mar 1794, United States--Ohio--Hamilton County--Columbia Township Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 53 years) 
    Marriage 27 Dec 1763  New Providence, Union County, New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Children 
    +1. Rhoda Jennings,   b. Abt 1780, Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 12 July 1836, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 56 years)
    Family ID F441  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 9 Sep 2024 

  • Documents
    Deed Book - Miami County, Ohio - Vol. 6 (1826-1828), p. 421-423    		Deed Book - Miami County, Ohio - Vol. 6 (1826-1828), p. 421-423
    Deed names heirs of Sarah Cushman including her sons Cyrenius Jennings, Henry Jennings, and Levi Jennings, daughters Hannah Cory and Rhoda Whetstone, and numerous grandchildren and other relatives, 2 Aug 1827. Miami County (Ohio). Recorder, Deeds, 1807-1968, v. 6, p. 421-423 (FSL film #560794, image 600-601 of 663).
    Land Patent - Miami County, Ohio - Sarah Cushman Jennings (10 Jun 1812)    		Land Patent - Miami County, Ohio - Sarah Cushman Jennings (10 Jun 1812)
    Land patent and credit slip.
    Gano and Stanley Account Book, 1794, p. 29    		Gano and Stanley Account Book, 1794, p. 29
    Call number: MSS fG198acRFM.

  • Sources 
    1. [S1] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126255301/sarah_a_jennings.

    2. [S27] Wakefield, Robert S., and Margaret Harris Stover, Mayflower Families through Five Generations [Silver Books]: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December 1620: Volume 17: Family of Isaac Allerton, (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1998 (reprinted 2013)), p. 85 (no. 113vii).

    3. [S19] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 72 (1918), p. 14 (no. 5vii).

    4. [S30] Hamilton County Genealogical Society, Surname Database, https://hcgsohio.org/detail/surnameDetail.php?sn=679.
      "David Jennings and Sarah Cushman Jennings, well documented with Stites group of early Columbia settlers. Came with entire family from Washington (now Greene) County, Pennsylvania."

    5. [S79] Tichenor, Diane, Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership: Generation 6, ([2015]), p. 4-5.

    6. [S79] Tichenor, Diane, Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership: Generation 6, ([2015]), p. 11.

    7. [S79] Tichenor, Diane, Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership: Generation 6, ([2015]), p. 15-16.

    8. [S32] Abstract of Book 1 & Book A, Probate Record 1791-1826, Hamilton County, Ohio, (Cincinnati, Ohio: Hamilton County Chapter, Ohio Genealogical Society, 1977), under date 26 Aug 1794, https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/488341.
      "Aug. 26, 1794. Maj. Benjamin Stites appeared to evince heirship of Benjamin Stites, Jr. to John Stites. Witnesses: Mrs. Sarah Jennings, Anna Mills, sister of Mrs. Stites, Elijah Stites, Benjn Jennings."

    9. [S79] Tichenor, Diane, Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership: Generation 6, ([2015]), p. 16.

    10. [S79] Tichenor, Diane, Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership: Generation 6, ([2015]), p. 18.

    11. [S79] Tichenor, Diane, Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership: Generation 6, ([2015]), p. 19.

    12. [S80] United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Land Management), Accession No. CV-0014-094, https://glorecords.blm.gov/.
      Miami County, Ohio; Meridian: West of the Greater Miami, Section 17, Township 4N, Range 6E, Aliquots NW1/4. Credit Volume Patent No. CV-0014-094.

    13. [S79] Tichenor, Diane, Statement of Line of Eligibility for Membership: Generation 6, ([2015]), p. 20.

    14. [S122] Drury, A. W., History of the City of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio, (Chicago: S. J. Clarke Publishing Co., 1909), Vol. 1, p. 868, https://archive.org/details/historyofcityofd01drur/page/n5/mode/2up.

    15. [S31] Miami County, Ohio. Recorder, Deeds, 1807-1968, (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1968), Vol. 6, p. 421-423, https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/295807.
      "... second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven ... Sarah Jinnings, deceased late of Montgomery County and State of Ohio ..."

    16. [S33] Lainhart, Ann Smith, and Robert S. Wakefield, Mayflower Families through Five Generations [Silver Books]: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in December 1620: Volume 23, part 1: Family of John Howland: The First Four Generations of His Children Lydia, Hannah, Joseph, Jabez, Ruth, and Isaac, (Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2006), p. 197.


 

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