Question: Joshua Cushman, was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine, he was pastor of the Congregational Church for nearly twenty years, in Winslow, a town and census-designated place in Kennebec County, Maine, in which country?

Context articles: China Lake (Maine)
Winslow, Maine
Edward Payson
Jon A. Lund
Enoch Mudge
First Congregational Church (Berkshire, New York)
Shubael Dummer
Joshua Cushman
Congregational Union of New Zealand
Harold Bussell

China Lake is a lake in Kennebec County, Maine.
 Located northeast of the state capital of Augusta, China Lake is situated in the towns of China and Vassalboro.
 China Lake has two large basins connected by a narrow neck.
 The elongated eastern basin with an average depth of less than 30 ft is entirely within the town of China, and has an irregular shoreline heavily developed with residences and seasonal cottages.
 The more nearly circular western basin extending into East Vassalboro is as deep as 85 ft , and shoreline development around the western basin has been discouraged to allow use as a water supply for Waterville and Winslow.
 The western basin overflows into Outlet Stream in the town of Vassalboro.
 Outlet Stream flows 7 mi north to discharge into the Sebasticook River in Winslow 1 mi upstream of the Kennebec River.
Winslow is a town and census-designated place in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, along the Kennebec River.
 The population was 7,794 at the 2010 census.
Edward Payson (July 25, 1783 – October 22, 1827) was an American Congregational preacher.
 He was born on July 25, 1783 at Rindge, New Hampshire, where his father, Seth Payson (1758-1820), was pastor of the Congregational Church.
 His uncle, Phillips Payson (1736-1801), pastor of a church in Chelsea, Massachusetts, was a physicist and astronomer.
 Edward Payson graduated at Harvard in 1803, was then principal of a school at Portland, Maine, and in 1807 became junior pastor of the Congregational Church at Portland, where he remained, after 1811, as senior pastor, until his death on October 22, 1827.
 Archibald Alexander suggested in 1844 that "no man in our country has left behind him a higher character for eminent piety than the Rev. Edward Payson."
Jon A. Lund (born November 6, 1928) is an American attorney and politician from Maine.
 Lund, a Republican, served as Maine Attorney General from 1972-1975.
 Prior to his time as the first full-time attorney general in Maine history, Lund was an assistant country attorney for Kennebec County, member of the Augusta City Council and two-time county attorney for Kennebec County.
 He was also elected to the Maine House of Representatives (1965-1966; 1969-1972) and Maine Senate (1967-1968).
Enoch Mudge (1776–1850) was the first native New Englander to be ordained as a Methodist minister.
 Born in Lynn, Mass., he was converted under Jesse Lee, the pioneer of Methodism in New England, and entered the ministry in 1793.
 He labored as an itinerant preacher in Maine until 1799, when his health gave way and he was forced to retire.
 He settled in Orrington, Maine, and was twice chosen Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts, in 1811-12 and 1815-16.
 In 1811 he had much to do with passing the "Religious Freedom Bill," which repealed a law requiring Massachusetts taxpayers of any denomination to pay taxes to support the Congregational Church.
 In 1814 he was chaplain to a Maine militia regiment that participated in the Battle of Hampden during the War of 1812.
 In 1816 he moved back to Massachusetts and resumed preaching.
 From 1832 to 1844 he was pastor of the Seamen's Bethel in New Bedford.
 There Herman Melville heard him preach, and Mudge was one of the models for the character of Father Mapple in "Moby-Dick".
 Enoch Mudge was the father of Thomas H. Mudge and the uncle of Zachariah A. Mudge.
First Congregational Church is an evangelical, historic Congregational church located at Berkshire in Tioga County, New York.
 The first "Berkshire" Congregational Church was founded in 1803, and continues now in Newark Valley.
 The whole area now comprising Richford, Berkshire and Newark Valley had comprised only one town, Berkshire, originally.
 The present-day Berkshire Congregational Church was established in 1833, as a natural outgrowth of the one in Newark Valley.
Rev. Shubael Dummer (16 February 1636 – 25 January 1692) was an American Congregational church minister who was killed in the Candlemas Massacre in York, Maine.
 Described as a man of "beautiful Christian character", Dummer founded the First Parish Congregational Church of York, the oldest church congregation in the U.S. state of Maine.
Joshua Cushman (April 11, 1761 – January 27, 1834) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine.
 Born in Halifax, Massachusetts, Cushman served in the Continental Army from April 1, 1777, until March 1780.
 He was graduated from Harvard University in 1787, studied theology, was ordained to the ministry and licensed to preach.
 He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Winslow, Maine for nearly twenty years.
 He served in the Massachusetts State Senate, and served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
The Congregational Union of New Zealand was founded in 1841 by Pastor Barzillai Quaife, a Māori missionary.
 Rev. Jonas Woodward was a leading figure in the denomination; he founded the Congregational church in Wellington in 1842.
 The congregational church in Auckland was formed in 1851, the congregational churches in Dunedin and Christchurch were formed in 1862 and 1894.
 Work progressed slowly, 40 years later it had only 12 ministers in New Zealand.
 Officially it was formed in 1887.
 In 1890s women were admitted to the Assembly as full members.
 In 1920 church union with the Presbyterian church was initiated, but declined until the Methodist church could join.
 In 1947 it accepted responsibility the Former London Missionary Society churches in the Pacific islands in Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue.
 In 1963 the Pacific Island Congregational Churches split.
 The majority of the denomination merged with the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
 The minority remain independent.
 In 2004 it had 850 members and 15 congregations and 15 house fellowships.
Harold L. Busséll is a pastor and author.
 He has a B.A. from Bethany College in Biblical Studies, M.A. in Psychology from Santa Clara University and a Doctorate of Divinity from Andover Newton Theological Seminary.
 Between 1968 and 1970 he served with Teen Challenge Paris, a Christian outrach program that works with drug addicts in Paris, France.
 His book "Unholy Devotion - Why Cults Lure Christians", (later renamed, "By Hook or by Crook : How Cults Lure Christians") talks about his experiences while in Europe.
 Bussell has written, "my wife and I were involved with an Evangelical youth mission based in Switzerland.
 We were with the group only six weeks, but it was almost seven years before I had overcome the psychological damage caused by their cult-like control and spiritualization...Questioning a leader was considered an act of rebellion against God and His chain of command."
 Bussell went on to become a pastor in Saratoga, California.
 He also served as one of the Deans at Gordon College.
 Serving as Senior Pastor from 1984 to 1996 at the First Congregational Church in Hamilton, Massachusetts, a mainline church affiliated with the United Church of Christ.
 The New York Times recognizes Bussell as an author who has written books about mind control and religious groups.
 Christianity Today noted Bussell as a pastor who has "experienced spiritual warfare."
 Paul R. Martin has noted Bussell's opinion on recovery from what they refer to as cults, that "a clear understanding of the gospel is the single most important issue in a cultist's recovery and future immunity from further cultic involvement."