[3][4] He emigrated to Cambridge, Massachusetts Bay Colony, where he was living (at the corner of Dunster and Winthrop streets)[1] and believed to be running a bookshop out of his home there by 1639.
"[7] Evidence of his publishing role appears on the title page of a new edition of the Psalms with the imprint "Cambridge: Printed for Hezekiah Usher, of Boston, 1648.
"[8] Usher appears similarly on several other volumes in the 1650s and later, including what is believed to be the first book in America written for children, John Cotton's Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes (1656).
[1] Usher married three times: to Frances, Elizabeth Symmes[9] and Mary Alford.
[5] Hezekiah Sr. was interred in what became the Francis Tomb in Boston's King's Chapel Burying Ground.