Cogswell

Robert Cogswell

b.abt.1532 of Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England; parents ukn
d.bur.June 7, 1581 Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England
m.Alice ______

CHILDREN included:

1. Edward Cogswell b.abt.1562

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Edward Cogswell

b.abt.1562 of Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England; s/o Robert Cogswell and Alice ______
d.bef.Jan. 12, 1615/16
m.Alice ______

CHILDREN included:

1. John Cogswell b.abt.1592

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John Cogswell

b.abt.1592 of Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England; s/o Edward and Alice Cogswell
d.Nov. 29, 1669 Ipswich, MA
m.Sept. 10, 1615 Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England; Elizabeth Thompson
b.d/o Rev. William Thompson, the early minister of Gorgeana, and his wife Phillis _______
d.June 2, 1676 Ipswich, New London, Massachusetts

CHILDREN included:

1. Elizabeth Cogswell b.abt.1646 Ipswich, MA d.1692 in the Candlemas Day Massacre m.July 31, 1657 Ipswich, MA; Nathaniel Masterson

From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: John, son of Edward, grandson of Robert, a manufacturer of woolen cloths at Westbury, Lehigh, Wiltshire, Eng., b.Westbury, 1592, came to N.E. 1635, freeman at Ipswich, Mass., 1636.

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