Job Cushing (1785-1867) was the first son of a Cohasset, Massachusetts farmer and Revolutionary War veteran of the same name. In 1819, he married Elizabeth Lincoln (1794-1882), also the child of a local farmer and Revolutionary War veteran. The couple had seven children, six of whom survived childhood.

Cushing's ledger includes customer accounts, records of services performed (such as plowing up and hauling field stones to the wharf, and carting wood, merchandise, and iron), products he sold (potatoes and calves), and documentation of a hired Irish-born laborer.

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