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The Lasting Spiritual Contribution of Pilgrim Robert Cushman In December of 1621 Deacon Robert Cushman, the business agent for the Plymouth Colony, arrived in America on the Fortune. He had been on the Mayflower, but when the Speedwell was found unseaworthy he stayed in England. Even though he didn’t arrive on the Mayflower the Pilgrims demonstrated his importance by giving him an allotment of land with those who did. Although Robert Cushman was buried in England, in 1858 a 25 foot granite memorial column was erected in his family’s honor on Burial Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Fortune arrived with ...

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