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I have done a lot of work on the Forbush/Forbes family of Massachusetts, and I've used Frederick Clifton Pierce's genealogy as a guide. There are mistakes in it (Pierce now has a rather shaky reputation as a genealogist), but in doing research in original records I've found Pierce's book to be generally reliable as to lines of descent if not always in the details. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find a newer, more up-to-date work on the descendants of Daniel Forbush (or Forbes), nor any articles on the family, after searching many catalogs and indexes. Some one needs to write one. There are many "Lucy Forbushes" in the records, so consult Pierce. If you can't borrow the book from the New England Historic Genealogical Society Library, it can be bought from Higginson's Books in Salem, Mass (they have an extensive on-line catalog of family genealogies.) Be aware that the genealogical data in Pierce on the emigrant progenitor of the Forbes family in Mass., Daniel Farrabus or Forbush, who shows up in Cambridge, Mass. about 1660, is confused. He is very mysterious--believed to be a Scots prisoner deported by Cromwell to New England in the 1650s during the English Civil War, Pierce claims he came from Kinellar, Scotland--but I know of no modern researcher who has checked Pierce's assertions by digging in the Scottish archives. The information I have been able to find in Massachusetts archives on Daniel Farrabus is very sparse. A number of Daniel Farrabus' sons settle in Marlborough and Westborough, Mass.(another, Daniel, apparently, in Maine), including Jonathan Forbush, who changes the family name from Farrabus, Forbush, Firbish, etc., back to Forbes. So the histories and vital records of these towns have a lot on the family. Various Forbes family members are also mentioned in the colorful "Diary of Reverand Ebenezer Parkman," of Westborough, who lived during the 1700s. It is published in book form by the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Mass. As to clan history, there is a Forbes Clan site on the internet, I believe.
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