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John Cogswell

John Cogswell

Male 1592 - 1669  (77 years)    Has 6 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name John Cogswell  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Birth 1592  Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Alt. Birth 1592  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Alt. Birth 
    Christening 7 Apr 1592  [2, 3, 4
    Gender Male 
    Alt. Birth England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Alt. Birth 
    Name John Coggswell  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Death 29 Nov 1669  Ipswich, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Burial Old North Graveyard, Ipswich, Mass. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Robert Cogswell,   b. 30 Nov 1510, Westbury Leigh, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Jun 1581, Westbury, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)  (Grandfather) 
    Alice Unknown,   b. Abt 1559, Westbury Leigh, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1616  (Age 57 years)  (Mother) 
    Notes 
    • [1279-louise_burns.FTW]

      At age 23, John Cogswell succeeded to his father's business and settled down in the old homestead. His parents died soon after his marriage, and he received his inheritance, "The Mylls called Ripond, situate within the Parish of Frome
      Selwood," together with the home place and certain personal property. Like his father, he was a manufacturer of wollen fabrics, largely broadcloths and kerseymeres. The superior quality of these manufacturers gave his "mylls" a favorable
      reputation, which appears to have been retained to the present day. There are factories occupying much the same locations and still owned by the Cogswells, which continue to put on the market wollen cloths that in Vienna and elsewhere have
      commanded the first premium in the world exhibitions of our times (1880's?).

      John Cogswell doubtless found, in London, a market for his manufactures. He may have had a commission house in that city, which would account for his being called, as he sometimes has been, a London merchant.

      John and Phillis Cogswell emigrated to America in 1635 aboard the ship "Angel Gabriel" which was wrecked off the coast of Maine. The passengers were washed ashore at Pemaquid on August 15, 1635. The Cogswells settled at Ipswitch, now Essex,
      where he was admitted as a freeman on March 3, 1636. He was a farmer, but maintained manufacturing interests in England, principally woolen mills in Newbury.

      John Cogswell and his wife Elizabeth settled at Ipswich, and had lands granted him there as appears from the records; under the date of 1635, is this entry:

      "Granted to Mr. John Cogswell three hundred acres of land at the further Chebacco, Having the river on the southeast, the land of Will White on ye Northwest & a Creek Coming out of the river towards Will Whites farme on the Northeast. Bounded
      also on the west with a creek & a little brooke. Also there was granted to him a percell of ground containing eight acres, upon part whereof the said John Coggswell hath Built an house, it being in ye corner lott in Bridge Streete and has
      goodman Bradstreet houselott on ye s.e. The was also granted to him six acres of Ground late Mr. John Spencers. Butting upon the river on the southeast having a lott of Edmund Gardners on the Northeast & a lott of Edmund Saywords on the
      Southwest wch six acres of ground the sd John Coggswell hath sold to John Perkins teh younger his heirs and assigns."

      The fact that he was designated "Mr." at that date, and the considerable amount of land granted him indicate that he was a man of good social standing in society.

      The records of about that date further show that Cornelius Waldo was Mr. Coggswell's farmer.

      The Cogswells were also involved in an attempt to prevent the execution of Goodwife Proctor in the Salem witch trials. According to "Ipswich In The Massachusetts Bay Colony," 290-291, by Thomas Franklin Waters, The Ipswich Historical Socity,
      1905: "Five members of the Cogswell family were among the twenty prominent people who signed the petition drawn up by the Rev. John Wise on behalf of Goodwife Proctor, who stood accused of witchcraft. Mary Warren alleged that she had been
      threatened and abused by Goodwife Proctor, and that she had seen apparitions of people who had long since been murdered by the wife of John Proctor. This evidence prevailed and the good woman was sentenced to death."
    Person ID I63446  ktree
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2024 

    Father Edward Cogswell,   b. 1554, Westbury Leigh England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jan 1616, Westbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Mother Alice Unknown,   b. Abt 1559, Westbury Leigh, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. May 1616 (Age 57 years) 
    Relationship unknown 
    Marriage Abt 1579  Westbury Leigh, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F16252  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth Thompson,   b. 1595, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1676, Ipswich, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Alt. Marriage 1615  England Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Alt. Marriage 
    Marriage 10 Sep 1615  Westbury Leigh, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Children 
     1. William Cogswell,   b. Mar 1619, Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 15 Dec 1700, Ipswich, Essex, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Susanna Hawkes  m. 1649
     2. Hannah Cogswell,   b. 1624, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1704, Charlestown, Suffolk, MA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Cornelius Waldo  m. 2 Jan 1652
     3. Abigail Cogswell  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     4. Edward Cogswell  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     5. John Cogswell  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     6. Elizabeth Cogswell  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     7. Sarah Cogswell  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
     8. Mary Cogswell  [Father: unknown]  [Mother: unknown]
    Family ID F22681  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2024 

  • Sources 
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    2. [S92] 1279-louise_burns.FTW.
      Date of Import: 25 Apr 1999

    3. [S203] Gregory Strong, Ancestory.com Individual Tree - Kings & Presidents.

    4. [S201] Leisure Guy, leisureguy@icloud.com, "KinshipTree - Historical Family Database", (Name: Name: http://kinshipcove.com Genealogy Research: Common Historical Roots In South Texas;;).

    5. [S202] 11615-2.ftw.
      Date of Import: 21 Feb 1999



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