The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

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Hannah Badger, [401] b. Feb. 19, 1790: m. 1S12, Thomas Lyford; d. March 24, 1853.
Thomas, [402] b. Feb. 15, 1792: m. Feb. 28, 1.S19, Sarah Adams; d. Sept., 1874.
.AbiEL, [403] b. Feb. 10, 1794; m. Feb. 10, r.S2o, Marg.iret Harvey McCrillis ; d.
Aug. 9, 1868.
Jere.miah, [404]b. Oct. 6, 1796; m. March 27, 1825, Tryphena Achilles; d. Nov. 26, 1837.
A daughter, [405] b. April i, 1799. She died in infancy, 1799.
A DAiKiHTER, [406] b. Feb. I, 1800. She died in infancy, 1800.
Naxcv, [407] b. June 24, 1801 : m. Dec. 12, 1848, Chase Wyatt ; d. March 10, 1S77.
William. [408]
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^^^^ ^.^^ .^ cliildhood, Dec. 27, 1815.
Moses Pearson, [410] b. Jan. 7, 1S09: m. Dec. 17, 1S40. ^^ary Ann Lee ; d. Oct. to,
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Moses Cogswell was in the naval ser\'ice for nearly the whole period of
the Revolution. He held the commission of Lieutenant and served as a pri-
vateersman. Lieut. Cogswell was once captured and held as a prisoner of
war at Halifa.x. N. S. It happened to be at the time of the notable Dark Day
in New England. In Halifa.x the sun shone brightly all day. and when the
British heard of the event they said, " It was a divine curse upon the rebels.'
Afier the war Lieut. Cogswell settled in Canterbury, N. H. He carried on
a farm, kept a tavern, and was Justice of the Peace. Lieut. Cogswell's death
was very sudden, of paralysis. His wife's death occurred exactly three years
after, on tiie same day of the same month.
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AVr. and //«. Ahicl I-'oslcr, Mrs. Cogswell's father, was a native of .\ndover, Mass., and
son of Capt. .^sa Foster. He graduated from Harvard College in 1756. He was a member
of the Continental Congress in 1783 and 17S4, and for several terms after the adoption of
the Constitution, 1789-gi, 1795-1S03. He was the only one of the New Hampshire delega
tion to the Continental Congress who witnessed the sublime spectacle when the Commanderin-Chief
of the .\merican -Army delivered up his sword to the .Xnierican Congress. Hon.
Abiel Foster died in 1.S06, at the age of seventy-one years.
Xaiuy Cognudt [ 407 ] was the third wife of Chase Wyatt, who was born July 12, 1S05.
He married two of her nieces. They lived in Tilton, X. H. He died 1SS2.
WILLIAM COGSWELL.
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