Ezra Cogswell (abt. 1732 - abt. 1821)

Born about 18 Mar 1732 in Lebanon, New London, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Dewey) Cogswell — married 30 Oct 1760 in Hebron, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Descendants

Died about 27 Jun 1821 at about age 89 in Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Ezra Cogswell was a blacksmith who lived in Conventry, Connecticut; Cornwallis, Nova Scotia; and Chesterfield, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Ezra was baptized on 18 March 1733, the son of Hezekiah Cogswell and Suzanne (Bailey) Cogswell. ^{[1] [2]}

Ezra married Elisabeth Dewey on 30 October 1760 ^{[1] [2]} in Hebron, Hartford, Connecticut.^[3] She bore ten of their children: ^[1]

1. Naomi
2. Susanna
3. Hezikiah
4. Desire
5. Daniel
6. Esther
7. Sybil
8. Nancy
9. Sarah
10. Martha

In 1761, Ezra's parents and much of the family emigrated to Cornwallis Township in Nova Scotia. ^[1] They were among the first New England Planters to resettle the lands the British seized from the Acadians in a brutal ethnic cleansing and deportation known as Le Grand Dérangement (Great Upheaval).

His father, Hezikiah, was granted 1½ shares (about 750 acres) of the Cornwallis Township on 21 July 1761, consisting of a town lot of three acres, a farm lot of about forty acres, and about 700 acres of wilderness. ^[1] His farm was located on Canard Street near the Upper Dyke Bridge, which was built by the Acadians. ^[1]

Ezra and family moved to Cornwallis, Nova Scotia and lived there for about ten years before moving to Chesterfield, Massachusetts about 1771. ^[1]

In 1786, Ezra held the office of Road Commissioner. ^[1]

When his brother Daniel died in Becket, Massachusetts on 30 June 1819, Ezra of Chesterfield, Massachusetts inherited his property as the only surviving heir in the Commonwealth. ^[1]

Ezra died on 27 June 1821 ^[1] in Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10} Ephraim Orcutt Jameson, The Cogswells in America (Boston, MA, A. Mudge & Son, 1884), 115-16, 230; digital copy, Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/cogswellsinameri00jame/page/114/mode/2up?view=theater : accessed 30 March 2024).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton. The History of Kings County, Nova Scotia: The Heart of the Acadian Land: Giving a Sketch of the French and Their Expulsion; and a History of the New England Planters Who Came in Their Stead: With Many Genealogies, 1604 - 1910 (Salem, MA: The Salem Press Company, 1910), 610; digital copy (https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/public/gdcmassbookdig/historyofkingsco00eato/historyofkingsco00eato.pdf : accessed 30 March 2024).
3. ↑ "Connecticut, Deaths, 1640-1955"
   citing Page: item 4 p 12; FHL microfilm: 1376165; Record number: 148;
   FamilySearch Record: F7LW-B9V (accessed 11 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QSQ-G9K7-B5DP Image number 00339
   Ezra Cagswell marriage to Elisabeth Dewey on 30 Oct 1760 in Hebron, Hartford, Connecticut.
4. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001"
   citing Death, Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 007009214.
   FamilySearch Record: Q29G-M87P (accessed 11 May 2023)
   FamilySearch Image: 3QS7-8979-7DP7 Image number 00071
   Ezra Cogswell death 27 Jun 1821 in Chesterfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts, United States.