William [4] COGSWELL

Son of John [1] COGSWELL & Elizabeth THOMPSON. Born 1619 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England. Baptism Mar 1619 in Westbury Parish Church. Died 15 Dec 1700 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Mass. Buried 17 Dec 1700.  He was sixteen years of age at the time he came with his parents to America in 1635, and about thirty when he was married.  He settled on the home place, and lived in a house that then stood a little to the north of the site now occupied by the ancient Cogswell house.  He possessed many of the traits of his father.  He was a man of Christian character, and one of the most influential citizens in that part of Ipswich.  It was largely by his efforts that the Gospel ministry was established in Chebacco.  After two years of opposition, and several appeals to the General Court, at last, May 5, 1679, the Parish of Chebacco was established.  Mr. Cogswell gave the land on which to erect a meeting-house, a lot thirteen rods by three.  This first meeting-house in Chebacco stood on what was long known as Meeting-house Hill.  Mr. Cogswell entertained at his house the Ecclesiastical Council that met Aug. 12, 1683, to organize the church and to obtain Mr. John Wise, their first pastor.

William Cogswell was the defendant in the "historic" suit, Cogswell vs. Cogswell, brought by his nephew, John [26] Cogswell, son of John [5] Cogswell, who had appointed William guardian of his children, and who died at sea.  After two years of trials and appeals, William was found innocent, and John was ordered to pay the court's costs, £13 4s.

William married Susanna HAWKES, daughter of Adam HAWKES & Anne (Brown) HUTCHINSON Mrs., 1649/1650 in Lynn, Essex, Mass. Born 13 Aug 1633 in Charlestown, Middlesex, Mass. Died circa 1696 in Ipswich, Essex, Mass.

They had the following children:

                                    15              i.                 Elizabeth [15] COGSWELL
16             ii.                 Hester  [16] COGSWELL
17            iii.                 Susanna [17] COGSWELL (Twin)
18            iv.                Ann [18] COGSWELL (Twin)  b. 5 Jan 1657 in Ipswich, Mass. d. before 5 Aug 1696.
19             v.                William [19] COGSWELL
20            vi.                Jonathan [20] COGSWELL, Capt.
21           vii.                Edmund [21] COGSWELL  d. 15 May 1680.
22          viii.                John [22] COGSWELL, Lt.
23            ix.               Adam [23] COGSWELL, Capt.
24            x.                Sarah [24] COGSWELL

Samuel [27] COGSWELL

Son of John [5] COGSWELL. Born 1651 in Chebacco, Ipswich, Mass. Died “prior to 1701” in Lynn, Mass.  He came to Saybrook unmarried, about 1665, and settled on a farm.  The Colonial Records of Connecticut state that he was made a Freeman, May, 1669.  There has been some uncertainty about his parentage, but there is little doubt he was born in Ipswich, Mass., and was the son of John [5] Cogswell.

Samuel sold 10 acres of salt marsh in Cheboke to Abraham Perkins in 1674.  This was land let to his father, John, for 1,000 years.  Joshua Sachem was an Indian Chief, who owned a large territory of land lying in Saybrook, Colchester, Hebron, and perhaps other towns in Connecticut.  Joshua willed a large tract, if not the whole of it, to a company of men, and they divided it.  The land willed by Joshua Sachem was divided into eighty-six shares among the proprietors of Hebron in 1702.  John Wastall owned about two hundred and sixty-three acres, and Samuel Cogswell owned one hundred and nine acres.  [No explanation is given as to how Samuel died prior to 1701 and received a share of land in 1702.  This and the following references may apply to Samuel Jr.]  In 1710 the proprietors voted a second division, each proprietor receiving not less than forty acres.  Samuel Cogswell received one hundred and one acres.  Later, by a third division in 1710, he received twelve acres.  He left a total of 3,000 acres, in nine undivided parts, to his children.  Lyme, Conn. became Saybrook, Conn. after 1666.

He married Susanna HAVEN, daughter of Richard HAVEN & Susanna NEWHALL, 27 Oct 1668 in Saybrook, Conn.

Born 24 Apr 1653 in Saybrook, Conn.  They resided in Saybrook, Conn., and had the following children:

                                    131              i.               Hannah [131] COGSWELL
132             ii.               Susanna [132] COGSWELL  b. 23 Nov 1672 in Saybrook, Conn.
133            iii.               Wastall [133] COGSWELL
134           iv.                Samuel [134] COGSWELL
135            v.                Robert [135] COGSWELL
136           vi.                Joseph [136] COGSWELL
137          vii.                Nathaniel [137] COGSWELL
138         viii.                John [138] COGSWELL  b. 6 Aug 1688 in Saybrook, Conn.
139          ix.                Joshua [139] COGSWELL