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JiiNATHAN CnGSWELL lived in the Cogswell House, which was built when he
was se\en \ears of age, 1732. He married the daughter of his father's second
wife. For thirty-two years. .April 7. 1780, to Feb. 12. 1812, he was a deacon of
the churcii. The stones which mark the graves of Dea. Cogswell and his
wife are inscribed as follows :
Dea. Jonathan Cogswell,
who died Feb. 12, 1812,
^t. 87."
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" Mary Cogswell, wife
of Dea. Jonathan Cogswell,
who died June 30, 1813,
^t. 84."
JciN \i II w (iii;sWELL [322 ], son of Dea, Jonathan t'ogswell, was a suliliei of the Kevo-
liitinn. TIk tT.\(liiioii is thai "he was buried on Kmiker Hill, 1776."
.^/,i:j (V:^-.fr.'.//[326] married D.r.id C/inih; Esq. She lived but a few months. .Mr.
Cli.iait inanied. Kcli. 22. I'l'ii.-Miyi.im Fosl,r, daughter of Capt. .\aron Fo.Mer. They had
iwii (l.iiiiihieis and fnur sons. One of the sons wa.s the late Hon. KrFr.s Ciioatf., of Itoston,
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A'lif'iis Clii'iil,: son of David and Miriam (Koster) Chuate, was Imrn Oct. i, 1799, in t-'heh.TLCo
I'arish, Ipswich, Mass. His early instructor in the classics, in which Mr. Choate became
so distinguished a scholar, was a young student from Dartmouth College, afterward the Rev.
William Cogswell, D.D. [411]. Mr, Choate graduated from Dartmouth College in 1819,
where he was under appointment as tutor in 1819-20. He then entered the Law .School at
Cambridge. Mass., and completed his course of most thorough legal study in the offices of
Jndi'e Cummins, of Salem, Mass., and Hon. William Wirt, LL. D., Attorney-General of the
United States, Washington, D. C. He commenced the i>ractice of his profession in Danvers,
M.i-s., and re])rescnted that town in the State Legislature in 1S25. Mr. Choate soon removed
1.. Salem, Mass., and was cho.sen a member of the State .Senate in 1827. In 1S32 he was
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