Joshua Coggeshall (abt. 1695 - aft. 1752)

Descendants

Died after 6 Dec 1752 after about age 57 in Coventry, Tolland, Connecticut

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Biography

Origins

The origins and parents of this Joshua Coggeshall have yet to be determined. He purchased land in Dartmouth in 1717, so would have been 21 at the time making an estimate of 1695 reasonable.

It has been suggested by the author of Cogswells in America that he was the son of Samuel Cogswell (abt.1651-abt.1701) and Susannah (Haven) Cogswell (1653-abt.1690) who were residents of Ipswich, Massachusetts, and then New London County, Connecticut. He stated: "Samuel Cogswell, of Saybrook, Conn., devised 3,000 acres of land in Hebron that belonged to his estate. This was in nine undivided parts, doubtless belonging to his nine children, but onlv eight appear recorded ; counting Joshua we have the nine. This and other incidental evidences go to show that Joshua Cogswell [ 73 ] was Samuel Cogswell's youngest son."^[1] However, it was then customary to give the eldest son a double share of a father's son, which explains why there were nine shares and only eight children. The author doesn't mention the other incidentals.

We also know from land records that Joshua was early in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, not in Connecticut, where Samuel was then resident.

Marriage

He married Mary (Soule (1695-1772) about 1718, probably in Dartmouth.^[2]

Land Records

These records trace James Coggeshall a resident of Dartmouth, Massachusetts in 1717 and his wife Mary, daughter of George Soule, to the town of Rochester, Massachusetts, and then to Coventry, Connecticut.

• 28 June 1717 James and Ruth Samson of Dartmouth sold to Joshua Coggeshall of Dartmouth 62.5 acres in Dartmouth.^[2][3] Joshua and his wife Mary sold this land 15 Feb 1721/2 to Simon Rouse.^[2][4]
• 5 Aug 1719 Joshua and wife Mary Coggeshall of Dartmouth petitioned to receive a share of her grandfather George Soule's estate. It mentions her father was George, son of her grandfather George.^[2][5]
• April 1720 Joshua Coggeshall of Dartmouth, husbandman, and wife Mary quitclaimed to Nathan Soule on the 8th and to William Soule on the 21 their rights to land that had belonged to their grandfather, George Soule.^[2][6]
• 6 Sept 1723 Joshua Coggeshall of Dartmouth bought 40 acres in Rochester.^[2][7]
• 14 Sep 1730 Joshua Coggeshall, now of Rochester, purchased 80 acres in Coventry, Connecticut for Silas Long.^[2]
• 9 Sept 1749 Joshua Coggeshall of Coventry gave his son Joshua half of a farm he purchased from Ebenezer Edwards.^[2]
• 6 Dec 1752. He sold the rest of the former Ebenezer Edwards farm to Moses Dewey.^[2]

Death

Neither death or probate records have been found for Joshua. He sold land 6 Dec 1752, and Mary Coggeshall was a widow when she died in 1772.^[2]

Children: first two born in Dartmouth, next four apparently born in Rochester, but recorded along with the last child in Coventry.^[2][8][9]

1. Peter Coggeshall, b. 9 Jan 1718/9;^[8] d. before 1728
2. Seth Coggeshall, b. 5 Jan 1720/1;^[8] possibly died young
3. Joshua Coggeshall, b. b. 15 July 1726^[9]
4. Peter Coggeshall, b. b. 12 June 1728^[9]
5. Joseph Coggeshall, b. (twin) b. 1 July 1730^[9]
6. Benjamin Coggeshall, b. (twin) b. 1 July 1730^[9]
7. Elisabeth Coggeshall, b. 29 March 1733;^[9] n.f.r. Possibly the Elizabeth Coggeshall listed for 1774 in Newport, Rhode Island with 0-0 1-0

Sources

1. ↑ Jameson, E. O. (Ephraim Orcutt). The Cogswells in America ( [Boston, A. Mudge & son, printers] [c1884]) p. 58 Samuel
2. ↑ ^{2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10} George Soule of the Mayflower and his Descendants for Four Generations. Originally compiled by John E. Soule and Milton E. Terry. Revised by Louise Walsh Throop. Mayflower Families in Progress. Seventh Edition. (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2015.) p. 116 #119
3. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZS-BSQ6?cc=2106411&wc=MCB2-DW5%3A361612901%2C361612902 : 22 May 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1733-1737 vol 22-24 > image 300 of 653; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Vol 23 p 234
4. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9ZS-B661?cc=2106411&wc=MCBG-96N%3A361612901%2C361851401 : 22 May 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1721-1725 vol 14-15 > image 138 of 647; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Vol 14:263
5. ↑ Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010) Vol 7: 216, 217 https://www.americanancestors.org/DB407/i/12206/216/24034424
6. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZS-B6Z5?cc=2106411&wc=MCBG-96N%3A361612901%2C361851401 : 22 May 2014), Bristol > Deeds 1721-1725 vol 14-15 > image 124 of 647; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Vol 23, pp 234, 235
7. ↑ "Massachusetts Land Records, 1620-1986," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Z7-J8G3?cc=2106411&wc=MCB2-JNP%3A361612701%2C361626101 : 22 May 2014), Plymouth > Deeds 1720-1724 vol 15-17 > image 524 of 709; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts. Vol 17:47
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vital Records of Dartmouth, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. Volume 1 - Births. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society at the charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund, 1929. p. 61
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5} Dimock, Susan (Whitney), Mrs. Births, Marriages, Baptisms And Deaths, From the Records of the Town And Churches In Coventry, Connecticut, 1711-1844. New York: The Baker & Taylor company, 1897. p. 25

• Jameson, Ephraim Orcutt. The Cogswells in America. Boston, MA: A. Mudge & son, about 1884. Page 58 & 125.