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Elizabeth Wise, daughter of John and (Denison) Wise, and grand-
daughter of Rev. John Wise, of Chebacco Parish. She was born Sept.
19, 1744. They hved in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Mass. Col. Cogs-
well died April 19, 1S19. Mrs. Cogswell died Oct 31, 1838.
THEIR CHILDREN WERE;
Elizabeth, [290] b. Aug. 6, 17731 m. Dec. 4, iSoo. Dr. Parker Russ ; d. June 5, 1.S03.
Makv, [291] b. Feb. 2.S, 177S: m. John Choale, Esq.,: d. June 2S, 1860.
Abigail, [292] b. June 7, 17S1 : m. Nov. 17, 1S07, Co/. Joseph Farley; d. May 12, 184^1.
Jo.\-4THAN, [293] b. July 14, 1783. He died in early manhood, Oct. 13, 1S13.
Daniel DE.\I.'^o.\, [294] b. March 31, 17^9. He died in infancy, Feb. 19, 1790.
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Jonathan Cogswell was born on the " Cogswell farm " in Chebacco
Parish, where he settled down and became a thrifty farmer. In 1791 he pur-
cliased and removed to what was called the '• Pickering place." The house
was the '' old parsonage," built by Rev. Mr. Pickering, the second minister of
that parish, and occupied by him for many years, and afterwards by Rev. John
Cleaveland and Rev. Mr. Porter. It had also been the residence of Dr.
Davis, the first physician, who settled in that part of Ipswich. Mr. Cogswell
was a public man, filled many important positions He was Justice of the
Peace, Feoffee of the grammar school. Judge of the Court of Sessions, on the
"Committee of Correspondence and Inspection," in the Revolutionary period,
Captain of a military company raised in 1774, Major in 1775. and Colonel of
the Second Regiment of Massachusetts in the army of the Revolution from
1776 to the close of the war. He was a member of the State Constitutional
Convention of 1780, and of the Massachusetts United States Constitutional
Convention of 1788. He voted for the adoption of the Constitution of the
United States. He was Representative to the C.ener.il Court of Massachusetts
for seventeen years, in 1776, 1792, 1793, and from 1800 to 1813 consecu-
tively. Col. Cogswell was greatly affected by the death of his only sur\-iving
son. Col. Jonathan Cogswell, Jr., a young man of ability and great promise,
whose death was a public calamity as well as a great bereavement to his family.
For appropriate obituary notices of both father and son, vi.l. "The History
OF Essex, Mass." Col. Cogswell, Sen., died April 19, i8ig, on the forty-fourth
anniversary of the battle of Lexington, and the year in which the ancient par-
ish of Chebacco became the new town of Esse.v, Mass.
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