Margaret (Gifford) Cogswell (abt. 1653 - 1748)

Born about 1653 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Ancestors

Wife of John Cogswell III — married 22 Jul 1674 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 19 Oct 1748 at about age 95 in Lynn, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Marriage

Margaret Gifford, possibly a widow as her name is given in the Ipswich records as "Mrs. Margrett Giffard," married John Cogswell on 22 Jul 1674, in Ipswich, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.^[1]

Margaret and John had seven children whose births appear in the Ipswich records: ^[2]

• Gifford Cogswell (b. 4 Aug 1679)
• Sarah Cogswell (b. 16 Sep 1681)
• Elizabeth Cogswell (b. 1 Aug 1677)
• [[Cogswell-233|Margaret (Cogswell) Hawkes (b. 6 Sep 1675)
• Mary Cogswell (b. 1685)
• Samuel Cogswell (b. 23 Feb 1693/4)
• [[Cogswell-230|Susannah (Cogswell) Parsons (b. 5 May 1691)

It should be noted that, at the birth of Samuel Cogswell, on 23 Feb 1693/4, the record indicated that the father was "John, Sr.," which would seem to indicate that there had been a birth, not reflected in the surviving records, of a child named John. Indeed, in the next generation, there is a John Cogswell, Jr. siring children in Ipswich.

Sources

1. ↑ Vital records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849, Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1910, Volume II, Marriages and Deaths, pg. 105.
2. ↑ Vital Records of Ipswich, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 [online images], Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, Volume I, Births, pg. 95-98.

• Ethel Farrington Smith, compiler (for the Adam Hawkes Family Association, Inc.). Adam Hawkes of Saugus, Mass., 1605-1672 : the first six generations in America, Baltimore, Maryland: The Gateway Press, 1980., pg. 49.
• Robert S. Wakefield. Mayflower Families through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620, Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-2014. Volume 17, pg. 24.