The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

the family tradition the experts in such matters say that Cogswell and Cogges-
hall in England have the same origin.
The ancient Family Arms, which appear on the cover of this volume
a cross between four escallops sable. Crest,
are recorded in England : Argent,
a stag lodged sable attired or. Motto :
'*'2tt'c spcrno ncc tintco."
The Coggeshalls lost their head in the reign of Henry VI., and became
a widely distributed race, the branches remaining in several counties; and
"between Henry VI., 1422, and Charles I., 1625, there was plenty of time for
the name to change among bad spellers."
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 Cogges-
hall, 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, Mass.
Westbury, County of Wilts, England.
The Doomsday Book, by William the Conqueror, 10S6. gives the earliest
mention of Westbury, which appears to have been held by Editha, Queen of
King Edward the Confessor, in the year 1044.
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The Arms of Westbury were registered in
Heralds Ofifice, London, in 1573, :6 Elizabeth.
They are said to be the same that John ok
Gaunt, fourth son of Edward III., bore, who
w.TS born 1339 and died 1399- Westbury,
England, was granted its charter of incorpora-
tion by Henry IV. It is a parish forming the
Hundred of Westbur)-, County of Wilts, and com-
^"S^^^f^^i^ prising the borough of Westbury, the chapelries
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of Bratton and Dilton, and the townships of
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Hawkeridge. Hayward, and Leigh, and contain-
ing about seven thousand inhabitants, upward of two thousand of whom are in
the town of Westbury. This town is twenty four miles northwest from Salis-
bury and ninety-eight miles west by south of London. The place is of great
antiquity. It occupies the site of the old Roman military and trading station,
Verlucio. All that remains to tell its Roman history are fragments of pottery.