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Jameson, E.O. , Genealogical Volume "The Cogswells in America", 1884, Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston

Brief Notes about the Cogswells in England (1580-1635)

Notes mentioning the birthplace and more immediate ancestors of John Cogswell, who with his family were the first immigrants of the name to America:

"Tradition and probability identify the name Cogswell with the old English town of Coggeshall, which is located 44 miles from London, in the county of Essex. Coggeshall was the ancient Canonium of the Romans, and held by them as military trading post for several centuries, being surrendered only on their departure from Britain. Roman bricks, tiles, broken urns, and coins, reliecs of Roman possesson, have often been found in Coggeshall. In the time of the Saxons it was called Coed Carre Hall. When Canute, the Dane, ruled Britain, Godwin, one of his favorites, who lived also under Edward the Confessor, came into possession of Coggashael, whoe daughter Edward the Confessor married, and whose son was King Harold, the last of the Saxon kings.

"In 1046, Coggeshall was given to the Church of Christ for the support of the Benedictine Monks of Canterbury. In 1139 the abbey of Coggeshall was founded by King Stephen and Queen Matilda, the monks being of the Cistercian Order. The first abbot of Coggeshall was William. In the reign of the Thrid, A.D. 1337, Johanus Coggeskale was M.P. from Gloucester, England. For further history of Coggeshal, vid "The Annals of Coggeshall" by Bryan Dale, M.D., and "the Chronicles of Ralph de Coggeshall" in Latin.

"It is the family tradition of the Cogswells now holding the ancient possessions in Wesbury, County of Wilts, England, that their ancestors came from the county of Essex, and there known as Coggeshall, with the various spellings which appear, viz. Coggeshall, Cogshall, Hoggeshale, Cogesholl, Cogeshole, Coggsshael, Cogholl, Coxhall, Cockshall, and Coggshale. Besides the family tradition the experts in such matters say that Cogswell and Coggeshall in England have the same origin."

Among the possessions John Cogswell brought to America, was a copy of an ancient arms granted in 1447. A facsimile of this arms may be found (page 6) in the Cogswell Genealogy. Below is a copy of it:.....(omited to save webspace)

We have no further record of Lord Humphrey Cogswell, no of this ancient arms than the following notation: "The Cogswells lost their head in the reign of Henry VI, and became widely distributed through several countries."

King Henry Vi, 1422-1461, "a scholarly but weak king so little suited to the affairs of this world, was more occupied with the creation of Eton, than with his kingdom, and when he exhibited symptoms of mental derangement, the powerful nobles of England began warring over the assumption of power, and soon all the coutnry was involved in conflict . . . Henry tried to arbitrate between the two parties . . . and in June, 1460, at the battle of Northampton, he came into the hands of his enemies, and in 1461, Edward IV mounted the throne. The Earls of Wiltshire and Devonshire and great numbers of their followers were beheaded . . . and all the great families of England found themselves decimated during the 'War of the Roses,' with the castles, estates, titles, and the arms of the vanquished, confiscated, and their families scattered to the four winds . . ." Guizot's History of England, II, pp. 39-51, Ch. XIV.

It may be assumed that the Cogswells, having "lost their head" as quoted above, sometime in that period, also lost titles, estates, and arms, and thus no more was heard of their former status. Suffice it to say that sometime late in the fifteenth century, our line of the Cogswells are to be found in Wiltshire, prosperous manufacturers, with a different arms which is registered to the old spelling -Coggeshall, but which John Cogswell brought, legitimately without a doubt, to America as his own. As noted elsewhere, among bad spellers, the spelling of the name gradually changed until the present spelling was established.

The ancient family arms, which appear on the cover of "The Cogswells in America," are recorded in England: Argent, a cross between four escallops sable, Crest; a stag lodged sable attired or. Motto: "Nec Sperno nec timeo."

But while Coggeshall and Cogswell have the same origin in England, they are two distinct names in America although sometimes confounded. The Coggeshalls of this country have mostly descended from John Coggeshall, the first Governor of Rhode Island, while the Cogswells, with the exception of a few recent immigrants, have sprung from John Cogswell, who came from Westbury Leigh, County of Wilts, England, and settled in 1635, in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

The Westbury Parish Church which dates back to William the Conqueror was housed (in 1884) in an edifice built in 1315, and (again in 1884) there were more than thirty generations of Westbury inhabitants buried in its shadow. There were many Cogswells connected with this ancient church, as appears on Church and Parish Register of Westbury. Also, the name of Cogswell often appears in the Register of St. Mary's chapel, Dilton, and in the Register of the Chapel of Westbury Leigh, the earliest recordings dated in the fourteenth century.

The burial of Robert Cogswell, a manufacturer of woolen cloth and owner of considerable other property in Westbury Leigh, was recorded as an event of June 7, 1581, and that of his wife, Alicia, August 1, 1603. They were the grandparents of John Cogswell, immigrant to American in 1635, whose father, Edward Cogswell, was their son. (There are many interesting records and will given in detail in the genealogy of this volume.) Edward Cogswell was the youngest son of this marriage.

Edward Cogswell, son of Robert and Alice Cogswell, was born in Westbury Leigh and he lived all his life there and died in 1616, his wife Alice also dying the same year. John Cogswell was their eighth child.

They had fourteen and their names and dates are are duly recorded, as follows:

1. Margaret, b. ab. 1580, m. 1599, Thomas Merchante

2. Elizabeth, who died in early life. Her burial took place Jan. 20, 1581/2

3. Elizabeth, m. March 28, 1608/9, Richard Erneley.. She was buried April 1, 1661.

4. John, d. young, buried April 11, 1592.

5. Robert, bapt. May 28, 1588. He probably died in infancy.

6. Andrew, bapt. Nov. 30, 1590. Twin brother of Robert.

7. Robert, bapt. Nov. 30, 1590. Twin brother of Andrew.

8. John, b. 1592; M. Sept 10, 1615, Elizabeth Thompson; d. Nov. 29, 1669.

9. Margery, m. Sept. 3, 1610. John Wilkins.

10. Anthony, apt. Aug. 30, 1595. He died young. Was buried June 28, 1597.

11. Anthony, bapt. Jan. 19, 1596/7; m Margaret

12. Geoffrey, bapt. Dec. 10, 1598.

13. Elenor, m. Stephen Smythe.

14. Walter

Edward Cogswell, son of Robert and Alice Cogswell, was a clothier, pursuing the business of his father and ancestors for generations. His estates were designated Ludborne, Horningsham, and Ripond Mylls, Ripond Mylls were located in Frome Selwood, a few miles from Westburie. Frome Selwood was so named because it was near the famous Selwood Forest. Mr. Cogswell died early in 1616 and was buried in the churchyard of Westburie. Mrs. Cogswell survived him but a few weeks.

John Cogswell

John Cogswell, son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, was born 1592, in Westbury, Leigh, County of Wilts. He married, Sept. 10, 1615, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of the Rev. William and Phillis Thompson. Rev. William Thompson was the Vicar of Westbury Parish, Wiltshire, for twenty years, from 1603 to his death in 1623. Mrs. Cogswell's youngest brother, Smauel, became the Rev. Samuel Thompson, D.D., of London. John Cogswell was 23 years of age at the time of his marriage, and succeedded to his father's business, and settled down in the old homestead. His parents died soon after his marriage, and received by inheritance "the Mylls called Ripond, situate within the parish of Frome, Selwood," together was the home place and certain personal porperty. Like his father, he was a manufacturer of woolen fabrics, largely broadcloth and kerseymeres. The superior quality fo these manufactures gave his "mylls" a favorable reputation, which appears to have been retained to the present day. There are factories cocupying much the same locations and still owned by Cogswells, which continue to manufacture woolen cloth that in Vienna and elsewhere have received first premiums in world exhibitions of our times (1884).

John Cogswell found in London a market for his goods. He may have had a commission house in that city, which would account for his being called, as he was, a London merchant.

About twenty years after their marriage, with a family of nine children about them, and having the accumulations of a properous business, Mr. And Mrs. Cogswell determined to emigrate to America. The particular reasons that led to this may have been much the same that influenced others in their time. It appears that early in 1635 Mr. Cogswell made a sale of his "mylls" and other reall estate, and soon after, with his wife, eight children (one married daughter remained in England), and all their personal effects, embarked at Bristol, May 23, 1635, for New England. Their passage was long and disastrous (vid.The Cogswells on the Ocean). Their arrival in America was in a most unexpected fashion. They were landed at a place called Pemaquid in Main, being washed ashore from the broken decks of their ship "Angel Gabriel" which went to pieces in the frightful gaile of August 15, 1635, when such a "sudden dismal storm of wind and rains came as had never been known before by white man or Indian.” Traces of this storm remained for years. Mr. Cogswell and his family escaped with their lives, but well drenched by the sea and dispoiled of valuables to the amount of L5,000 sterling. They were more fortunate than some who sailed with them, whom the angry waves gathered to a very watery grave. On leaving England, Mr. Cogswell had taken a large tent which now came into good service. They pitched this and gathered themselves and such stores as they could rescue into it. The darkness of that first night found them housed beneath this tent on the beach. The next day they picked up what more of their goods they could, which had come ashore during the night. As soon as possible, Mr. Cogswell, leaving his family, took passage for Boston. He there made contract with a Captain Gallup who commanded a small bargue, to sail for Pemaquid, and transported his family to Ipswich, Massachusetts.

The last of August, 1635, the barque sailed up the Agawam River, with Mr. And MRs. Cogswell, their 3 sons and 5 daughters, and all the household goods it could carry. The rest of their effects were brought by another ship. The settlers of Ipswich welcomed them heartily. They made John Cogswell liberal grants of land. Municipal records at Ipswich gave detailed accounts of these grants. John Cogswell was the third original settler in that part of Ipswich which is now Essex, Mass. His comparative wealth, intelligence, and piety gave him an acknowledged prominence in the town and church. His name often appears on the records of Ipswich and is uniformly distinguished by the appellation of Mr., which was an honorary title give to but few, and only gentlemen of distinction. Only about thirty of the 335 original settlers of Ipswich received this honor. On March 3, 1636 (less than a year after his arrival), he was admitted "freeman" who alone held the right to vote for rulers and hold public office.

Rare Pieces of Furniture

(Synopsis and Excerpts from clipping in possession of Asa F. Cogswell since about 1910. From an unknown paper, "Rare Pieces of Furniture," "Odd Histories Attached to Ancient Heirlooms," and "Salem Man Has Chair Brought from England on 'Angel Gabriel.'")

Perhaps the finest collection of antiques in America is gathered under the roof tree of Charles F. Waters, who lives in Washington Square, Salem Mass., and among them all stands forth a chair which, because of real beauty, commands admiration. It is elaborately carved and is very handsome. To it belongs, possibly, the oddest history of any piece of furniture in Salem. It seems that one John Cogswell came over here from the mother country in 1635, crossing the ocean in the good ship "Angel Gabriel," the same craft that brought Sir Walter Raleigh to Guiana in 1618, on his second and last voyage. John Cogswell embarked with his wife, eight children, servants and household goods, among the last this chair, for settlement in this country. A frightful storm off the coast of Maine where by mistake they had drifted, caused a total wreck of the vessel.

Mr. Cogswell and family and what household goods and furniture could be saved were carried to shore at Pemaquid, Maine, where the family spread a tent and remained until the next week. They then took passage to Boston and settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts." (This chair descended in the family until it came to Mr. Waters, the present owner. He is the son of Elizabeth Cogswell Waters.)

The Cogswells at Chebacco

For several years John and his family lived in a log-house erected during 1636 at "Chebokoe" (Chebacco), while many of their goods remained stored in boxes. There were pieces of carved furniture, embroidered curtains, damask table linen, much silver plate, and that there was a Turkey carpet was well attested by depositions which were made at the time of a famous law-suit between William, son of John Cogswell I, and his nephew, John, son of John Cogswell, Jr., who died aboard ship Sept. 27, 1653, who sued his uncle for an accounting of his father's (John, Jr.) estate. William Cogswell was exonerated and the nephew had to pay a judgement of L13 4s. However, the depositions of various servants of John Cogswell, I, who had come over on the ship with him, enumerated many of the household articles he had brought with him. Included were "several feather beds, several dozen of pewter platters and several brass pans besides other pieces of pewter, iron work, pieces of plate, and a good quantity of household goods, including bedding and a Turkey worked carpet, all aboard among my master's goods" which came safe ashore, together with provisions, and furniture which was saved from the wreck. Other despositions were made by Mary Cogswell Armitage, and William Thompson, a nephew of Mrs. John Cogswell, from England. A quaint mirror and a clock, & the Cogswell coat of arms "wrought most exquisitely with silk on heavy satin" were mentioned.

A few years later Mr. Cogswell built a framed house on the site of the first log house and many quaint things, articles of personal attire, ornaments, furniture, etc., were in possession of Messrs. Alber() and Jonathan Cogswell, brothers, who occupied the ancient Cogswell manor in Essex. There is a shrub nearby that John Cogswell brought with him from England.

For some years after the completion of their new dwelling house, Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell lived to enjoy their pleasant home, surrounded by their children. This is found this record, "Nov. 1651, John Cogswell and Elizabeth Cogswell, his wife gave to William Cogswell, their son, a deed of land on the southeast side of the Chebacco River." At the same date was give a dwelling house at Chebacco Falls to his son-in-law, Cornelius Waldo, the son-in-law mentioned, was the husband of John Cogswell's daughter Hannah, and they were the great-grandparents of Ralph Waldo Emerson. William Cogswell married Martha Emerson, of the same family.

The children of John Cogswell and Elizabeth (Thompson) Cogswell were:

1. A daughter, who married and resided in London. (Name unknown).

2. Mary, m. 1649 Godfrey Armitage

3. William, bp, March 1619; m. 1650, Susannah Hawkes, d. Dec. 15, 1700

4. John, bp. July 25, 1622; m. Margaret Gifford; d. Sept. 27, 1653, aboard ship. His first wife had died, and he went to England to remarry. He was taken ill and died aboard ship on his return to England. He left two children, one John, who when grown up, sued his uncle William for an accounting of his father's estate.

5. Hannah, m. 1652, Deacon Cornelius Waldo

6. Abigail, m. Thomas Clark

7. Edward, b. 1629 (Little of him is known)

8. Sarah, m. 1663, Simon Tuttle; di. 1692

9. Elizabeth, m. July 31, 1657, Nathaniel Materson

John Cogswell's Grant and Some of the Houses Thereon, 1636-1839

With Special Reference to the Jonathan Cogswell House, Which Stands at the End of Spring Street, Essex, Massachusetts. (Excerpts from an article by Mrs. Bertram K. Little (Nina Fletcher Little), who now owns this house.)

This history of the Cogswell Grant really begins in the county of Wiltshire, England, in 1592, for in that year was born John Cogswell, son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, who, when he reached the age of forty-three years, was to set sail for America, there to found the family which bears his name. In 1615 he married Elizabeth Thompson, and on May 23, 1635, they and their eight children left Briston, England, on the ship "Angel Gabriel," bound for New England. John is said to have been a manufacturer of woolen cloth and was apparently a man of some means, as he brought with him a considerable amount of household goods and also several servants. With the Cogswells on the "Angel Gabriel" was the Rev. Richard Mather, father and grandfather of Increase and Cotton Mather, famous Boston divines, also John and Thomas Burnham, who settled her in Chebacco. On August 14th the ship arrived at the Isle of Shoals, and on the morning of the 15th arose a storm, the traces of which remained for many years. The "Angel Gabriel" went to pieces, and "100 passengers, 23 seamen, 23 cows and heyfers, 3 sucking calves and mares" were washed ashore on the beach at Pemaquid. Here John left his family while he went to Boston and made arrangements with a Captain Gallup to transport him and his wife and children to the newly settled town of Ipswich. In 1636 John received two grants from the town. One of these was a plot of ground, "Upon part whereof ye sd John Cogswell hath built a house." This lot was in the center of Ipswich, and probably actually contained twelve acres. The second grant was one of three hundred acres and is entered in the original Book of Grants, from which I copied it, in these words, "Granted to Mr. John Cogswell 300 acres of land at the further Cheboke, having the river on the southeast, land of William White on the northwest, and the creek coming out of the river toward William White's farm on the northeast." The boundaries or the original grant have changed amazing little in 300 years.

John Cogswell died in 1669, and the question of the exact location of his house during the thrity-three years of his life in Ipswich cannot be stated with certainity. The Cogswell Family History states that "sometime in 1636 he put up a log house and removed to further Chebokoe where he spent the rest of his days."

Let us now turn to the second generation of Cogswell, giving particular attention to John's two sons, William, born in England in 1619, and John, Jr., born in 1622. On November 30, 1651, John, Sr. and Elizabeth his wife, deeded to their son William a parcel of ground containing 60 acres, which was bounded on the southeast by Chebacco River, and one corner of which was "upon son William's barn." This is the first mention that I have found of building on the Grant, and for reasons which will appear later, I believe that this deed to William embraced the lot where the present house now stands, and that he had his house upon this very site.

A few days after this deed was executed, John, Sr., and Elizabeth deeded to their younger son John, Jr. 60 acres of land, "In consideration that he hath yielded to me all his right unto the house and lands at the Falls." This property was given to Cornelius Waldo, husband of their daughter Hannah. Almost immediately John, Jr. sold his 60 acres to his brother William, and then six years later, on February 16, 1657, we find a most interesting deed. "I John Cogswell (Sr.) having been granted by the Town 300 acres, whereas i have granted part of said farme to John who sold to William, in consideration of 230 pounds of current money of New England, have sold my whole farm to said William Cogswell." Here we see practically the whole of the original grant transferrred by John, Sr. to his son William. There is no mention of any house, however, and I believe that the only houses on the Grant were William's on his first 60 acres, and possibly his brother John, Jr's. John, Sr's. inventory at his death in 1669 mentions "A house, barn, and 10 acres of upland, etc." and a small amount of household goods. This was a small holding of property and if it had been on the big grant it would have belonged to William, and so would not have appeared in John's inventory. Therefore I presume that he lived on the small grant in the town of Ipswich where we know that at one time he did build a house.

As I have already mentioned, we know that William Cogswell had a barn on the Grant in 1651 (although the first actual mention of his house is in 1657), in which year his father deeded to him his first 60 acres. As he had been married in 1649 to Susanna Hawkes of Charlestown, it is fair to presume that he had a house also by this date. At the death of his brother John, Jr. in 1653, William and his father became legal guardians of his nephew and two nieces, and it is interesting to read his own account, taken from the Court records, of how he attended to their education. This following paragraph also proves that he and his father each had separate houses at this date: "In 1653 and 1654 we kept a school dame in my Father's house to teach my brother Cogswell's children, and after 1654 to Sept. 1659 we endeavored to teach these children in reading. In Sept. 1659 my Father and the rest of his family came and lived in the house with me until . . . 1660, and the rest of their employment was to teach the children to read and write. From 1660 to 1663 I had a man lived with me which I gave 12 pounds a year unto that could write and read, and I added to his wages 8 or 10 shillings and allowed him time to perfect John in his writing."

Until 1698 the main road from Ipswich to Gloucester left the present road by the Lane farm, crossed the high fields, and came through Strawberry Lane, and from there passed the site of the present house and went straight down to the River. In 1656 the town of Ipswich arranged with William for the use of this road. "Granted to William Cogswell in full satisfaction for the highway through his father's and his farm, three acres and half of land joining to Thomas Bishop's land on the back side of his farm . . . Also agree with William Cogswell to keep a ferry on Chebacco River, for which he is to have two pence a person for everyone he carries over.” If his house stood on our site, it backed directly on the main road, and was most conveniently located for the operation of a ferry at the foot of the slope. This ferry was replaced by a horse bridge in 1666.

By 1668 William Cogswell was almost fifty years old; he had ten children of his own, and in addition had been the guardian of his brother's three children. He had acquired his father's entire original grant of 300 acres, to which he had added slightly, and he was one of the most prominent men in the community. He was largely instrumental in persuading the General Court to allow Chebacco to become a separate parish, and he gave the land on which the first Meeting House was erected. About this time he must have enlarged his outbuildings and improved his home lot for the following "felling grants" appear in the Town Records: "1668, to Mr. Cogswell, liberty to fell timber for the end of a barn, for an outhouse, and 2 trees for planks for a barn floor, and for 200 rayles and posts for a yard by his house, and a tree for stakes for hedging." "1770, William Cogswell granted liberty to fell trees for 4,000 foot of boards." The Town was strict, however, in checking up on any trees cut without permission, as witness as the following, "Wm Story informed the Selectmen that William Cogswell hath felled seven white oaks without leave, the Constable is ordered to distrain him of 10 shillings for every tree, according to Town order."

For fifty years the 300 acres of the original grant were held instact, but in 1687 William, approaching three score years and ten, decided to divide his land just as his father had done many years before.

John Cogswell and Elizabeth Thompson

John Cogswell was born in Wiltshire (Westbury), England in 1592.

Westbuy lies in a strategic position at the western corner of the Plain and all heavy traffic has always had to pass through it, skirting the foothills and avoiding the swamps and the forest of the clay valley of western Weltshire. In the area are the long burrows where the Stone Age men buried their dead, the green tracks on which men traveled until the Romans came, and the remnants of a Roman settlement. Many settled there because of the feature which gave it its name -- the bury or burh west of the plain.

For much of the Middle Ages, Westbury was but one of a line of villages but by the fourteenth century it had become an important wool centre. The weavers of Leigh were pious in their religion and radical in their politics.

The Cogswell family had lived in or near Westbury and Westbury Leigh for nearly a hundred years, having originated in Essex where their ancestors had lived in the town of Coggeshall.

John and his brothers had lived in the lovely country bordering the Avon and only a few miles from Stonehenge, with their families and carrying on a prosperous woolen manufacturing business for a century. Then in 1635, John and Elizabeth sold his cottages, gardens, orchards, barn and pastures and sailed for America.

On September 10, 1615, he married Elizabeth, the daughter of Reverend William Thompson, eight Vicar of Westbury. Their wedding was celebrated in the ancient Westbury Church. John was 23 years old when he married Elizabeth and succeeded to his father's wool business, and settled down in the old homestead. His parents died soon after his marriage and he received by inheritance "the Mylls called Rispond, situate within the parish of Frome, Selwood," together was the home place and certain personal property. Like his father, he was a manufacturer of woolen fabrics, largely broadcloth and kerseymeres. The superior quality of these manfactures gave to his "mylls" a favorable reputation.

John found London a market for his goods and may have commissioned a house there which would accoujt for him being called a London merchant.

About twenty years after their marriage, with a family of nine children about them and having a prosperous business, John and Elizabeth decided to emigrate to America.

John inherited the "Mylls called Ripond within the Parish of Frome,” Selwood and followed the family trade of manufacaturing woolens while his wife bore him nine children.

In 1635, they sold their cottages, gardens, orchards, barn and pastures in Wesbury and Westbury Leigh and set out for the new world. The reason may be that between 1625 and 1630, the weaving business had suffered a serious decline in England. They sailed with their family on the Ship Gabriel in 1635.

May 23 to August 15, 1635

The Angel Gabriel was the ship on board of which John Cogswell and family crossed the Atlantic. It was the same ship in which Sir Walter Raleigh had made his second and last voyage (1617-18) to Guiana, South America.

John with his wife, Elizabeth, and eight children, embarked May 23, 1635 at Bristol, England on the Angel Garbriel for New England. John had with him his three sons, William, john and Edward and five of his six daughters. One daughter was left in England and later married and lived in London. John took with him several farm and household servants, an amount of valuable furniture, farming implements, housekeeping utensils and a considerable sum of money.

They were detained many days after going on board the Angel Gabriel for lack of wind, so that not until June 4th did they actually set sail from Bristol. On the same day another vessel, the James, sailed having on board emigrants for America, among whom was Rev. Richard Mather, fleeing religious intolerance in England.

The Angel Gabriel was a strong ship and so the seamen of the James wanted to travel along with her, although the James was a faster ship.

On Wednesday, June 24, they saw porpoises leaping and playing with their ships and then spent some time together chasing what they supposed was a Turkish pirate but which they couldn't overtake.

Both ships touched at Milford Haven, Pembroke Co, South Wales and on June 22nd, they put to sea again and proceeded on their way, and many on board saw the English coast fade from view. The ships kept company for about two weeks, then they became separated, but arrived about the same time on the coast of New England. By mistake they had drifted to the coastal area of Main.

The James lay at anchor off the Isles of Shoals and the Angel Gabriel off Pemaquid, Me, where the great storm and gale of August 14th of that year struck them. The James was torn from her anchors and obliged to put to sea. But after two days of terrible battling with storm and waves, she reached Boston Harbor with her sails "rent in sunder and split in pieces as if they had been rotten ragges." The passengers of the James landed in Boston, August 17, having been twelve weeks and two day on the passage.

The Angel Gabriel fared still worse. The wind, having blown hard at S. and SW a week before, almost at midnight, it came up at NE and blew with great violence and an abundance of rain. The tide at Naragansett rose fourteen feet higher than ordinary and drowned Indians fleeing from their wigwams, blew down trees and overthrew houses. "The storm was frightful at Pemaquid, the wind blowing from the northeast, the tide rising to a very unusual height, in some places more than twenty feet right up and down; this was succeeded by another and unaccountable tidal wave still higher." The Angel Gabriel went to pieces in the frightful gale. The Angel Gabriel became a total wreck, passengers, cattle, and goods were all cast upon the angry waves. Among those who reached the shore with their lives were John and his family. Three or four passengers and one seaman perished and there was the loss of cattle and much property. Thus ended the passage of the Cogswells on the ocean and their arrival in America. The Angel Gabriel was the only ship which miscarried with passengers from Old to New England.

Such was the history of the Cogswell up to the time when they found themselves wet and shivering on the rockbound coast of America in midsummer 1635. On leaving England, John had taken a large tent. They pitched this on the shore of Maine and gathered themselves and such stores as they could rescue into it. The darkness of that first night found them housed beneath this tent on the beach. The next day they picked up what more of their goods they could, which had come ashore during the night. As soon as possible, John left his family and took passage for Boston. There he made contract with Captain Gallup who commanded a small barque, to sail for Pemaquid ad transport his family to Ipswich, MA.

The tract of land between the Kennebec and Piscatua Rivers had been anglicanized by Sir Ferndinando Gorges while Dover and Exter were infected with antinomians So, it is probable that a blue Puritanical wind kept the Cogswell's little baque sailing southward until it could inland up the Agawam, which was an Orthodox River in those days. Here at "the further Cheboke," in 1636, a grant of 308 acres of land was made to John Cogswell.

The last of August 1635, the barque sailed up the Agawam River with Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell, their three sons and five daughters and all the household goods it could carry. The rest of their effects were brought by another ship. The settlers of Ipswich welcomed them heartily. They made John liberal grants of land.

For several years, John and his family lived in a log-house erected during 1636 at Chebokoe (Chebacco) while many of their goods remained stored in boxes. There were pieces of carved furniture, embroidered curtains, damask table linen, silver plate, and a turkey carpet. Among the items he had brought with him were several feather beds, several dozen of pewter platters, several brass pans, other pieces of pewter, iron work, pieces of plate, and a good quantity of household goods including bedding, mirror and clock, and the Cogswell a shrub, coat of arms in silk on heavy satin. Various servants also came over on the ship with him.

A few years later, John built a framed house on the same site as the first log house. John distributed much of his property among his children while he was still alive and so they lived surrounded by their children.

John died, after a full and successful life, in Ipswhich, Mass., on Nov 29, 1669, at age 77 years. He was buried in Old North graveyard of First Church. Mrs. Cogswell died June 2, 1676. She was a woman of sterling qualities and dearly beloved by all who knew her.

John was the third original settler in that part of Ipswich which is now Essex, MA. His comparative wealth, intelligence and piety gave him prominence in the town and church. On March 3, 1636, less than a year after his arrival, he was admitted "freeman" and held the right to vote and hold public office.

Their eldest child, a daughter, had remained in England. Their fourth child, second son, John was bp July 25, 1622. After his wife, Margaret Gifford died, he went to England to remarry. During the return trip, he became ill and died on Sept. 27th, 1653, aboard ship. His brother, William, became the legal guardian of his son and two daughters.Jameson, E.O. , Genealogical Volume "The Cogswells in America", 1884, Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston