Maria Tallmadge Cushman
(1790-1878)
BIRTH
March 25, 1790
PLACE
NAME
Maria Tallmadge
DEATH
March 19, 1878
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Benjamin Tallmadge
(1754-1835)
MOTHER
Mary Floyd Tallmadge
(1764-1805)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
Maria Jones Tallmadge Cushman (1790–1878), daughter of Benjamin Tallmadge and Mary Floyd, studied at the Litchfield Female Academy in 1801–1802. She ended an engagement to law student Virgil Maxcy, receiving a consoling letter from Tapping Reeve in 1807. In 1812 she married John Paine Cushman and moved to Troy, New York; they had eight children. Her family letters discuss politics, revivals, and domestic affairs, while her remedies notebook records household knowledge.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Maria Tallmadge Cushman’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Maria Tallmadge Cushman is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Maria Tallmadge Cushman died on Mar 19, 1878. Maria Jones Tallmadge Cushman, daughter of Benjamin Tallmadge and Mary Floyd, studied at the Litchfield Female Academy in 1801–1802. She ended an engagement to law student Virgil Maxcy, receiving a consoling letter from Tapping Reeve in 1807. In 1812 she married John Paine Cushman and moved to Troy, New York; they had eight children. Her family letters discuss politics, revivals, and domestic affairs, while her remedies notebook records household knowledge. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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