denial. He remarked that " he had forsaken friends, houses and lands, for the sake of the gospel, and the Lord had given him them again." He was prosperous in his estate, which at the time of his death was considerable. It appears that he had four children, one, a son, by his first wife, and two sons and a daughter by the second, whom he married in Plymouth. William, the eldest of the latter, was born in Plymouth, June 17, 1624; was deputy-governor of the colony after the death of his father, and died at Plymouth, Feb. 20, 1704, aged 79. Several of his descendants were members of the council of Massachusetts; and one of them was deputy-governor of Rhode Island, and a senator in the Congress of the United States.

If we look back to the period when Mr. Bradford was but a lad among the vicious and uninstructed people of Ansterfield, and contemplate his progress through life, in virtue, learning, usefulness and respecta

bility, sustaining for a long number of years the highest office in his adopted country, we shall be led to admire those principles which animated him to persevere through so many difficulties; we shall find an instance of the truth of the scripture declarations, "The Lord doeth good to the upright in heart," and "Blessed is the man who putteth his trust in him."

Gov. Bradford wrote a history of Plymouth people and colony, beginning with the formation of the Church, in 1602, and ending with 1640. It was contained in a folio vol. of 270 pages. Morton's Memorial is an abridgment of it. Being deposited in the library of the Old South church in Boston, it was lost during the time that the church was converted into a riding-school, at the commencement of the revolutionary war. He had also a large book of copies of letters relative to the affairs of the colony, a fragment of which was found in a grocer's shop in Halifax, and has been published by the

Massachusetts Historical Society. To this is joined a descriptive and historical account of New England, in verse. He published some pieces for the confutation of what he considered the errors of the times, particularly the Anabaptists.

ROBERT CUSHMAN.

ROBERT CUSHMAN was distinguished among those worthies who left England on account of their religious difficulties, and settled with Mr. Robinson, their pastor, in Leyden. He was the Mr. Cushman who was sent to England with John Carver in 1618, to agree with the Virginia Company for a settlement, and to obtain if possible from king James, a grant of liberty of con

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science in their intended plantation. In 1619, he was again sent with Mr. William Bradford on the same business. Mr. Cushman was also one of the agents sent in 1620, to procure money and provide for the voyage to America, and embarked from Southampton in the Speedwell the same year. When that vessel was condemned as unfit to proceed, he and his family were among those who were obliged to relinquish the voyage and return to London. He first came to America in the ship Fortune, in 1621; but pursuant to the directions of the merchant-adventurers in London who fitted out the ship, and by whose assistance the first settlers were transported, he took passage in the same ship back again, to give them an account of the plantation. He sailed from Plymouth Dec. 13, 1621, and on arriving on the coast of England, the ship, with a cargo of £500 sterling, was taken by the French. Mr. Cushman, with the crew, was carried into France, but arrived

at London in the February following. During his short residence in Plymouth, though a mere lay-character, he delivered a discourse on the sin and danger of self-love, which was printed in London in 1622, reprinted at Boston in 1724, and again at Plymouth in 1785.

Mr. Cushman, though he constantly corresponded with his friends here, and was serviceable to their interests in London, never returned to this country, but while preparing for it, was removed to a better, in the year 1626. The news of his death, and of Mr. Robinson's, arrived at the same time, and seems to have been equally lamented by their bereaved and suffering brethren. He was zealously engaged in the prosperity of the plantation; a man of activity and enterprise, respectable in intellectual abilities, well accomplished in scriptural knowledge, an unaffected, steady and sincere christian in profession and practice.

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