Cushman Memorial in Plymouth
Although Robert Cushman was buried in England, in 1858 a granite, twenty-five foot memorial column was erected in his family’s honor on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The column commemorated Robert Cushman family - he as a fellow exile in Holland and as the Pilgrim Chief Agent in England, his son Elder Thomas Cushman, as well as Thomas’ wife Mary, daughter of Pilgrim Isaac Allerton.
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