The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

^Abigail Bclclier, who died Jan. 23, 17S8. Mr. Cogswell married, 1790,
^Mrs. Mercy {Brewster) Coit, daughter of Simeon Brewster. They re-
sided in Preston, now Griswold. Conn. Col. Cogswell died June 23,
1823. Mrs. Mercy Cogswell died Nov. i, 1832, in Plainfield, Conn.
There were no children of the first marriage.
THE CHILDREN OF THE SECOND ]\I.\RRI.-\(,E WERE:
WiLi.i.AM, [563] b. 1791. He died in childhood, July 31, i795-
Ar.l(,.AlL, [564] m. John Tyler.
S.ARAH. [565]. She died, unmarried, in Plainfield. Conn.
William Henkv, [566] b. Dec. 3, 179.S ; m. KMary Lord Fidlcr j m. -Linietia Ann
Paynes d. Nov. 22, 1S76.
James. Mason, [5673 b. Sept. i, iSoo; m. Nov. 6, 1S26, ^Charlotte Coit ; m. Oct. S,
1S33, ''Maty Huntington DcWitt.
Joanna Fanning, [568] m. April 13, 1831, Edivin Tucker.
Frederic Fanning, [569] b. Feb. 24, 1S09; m. May 2. i!S33. Harriet E. Venison.
JHrmorantia.
.1/;... J/,v,,- r.;,'.fr.v// wa> .1 widuw, witli tun vuiuii; daiightcr>. when Col. Cogs
! her.
Al>i,^.nt C,'i,'s-..'cil [ 564 ] manied John Tn ler, son of John Tyler.
ROGER COGSWELL.
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(ffitntaloflital.
Roger" Cogswell, (Wi/liam'', Eeiivard^, William'^, WiUiani'^.
yo/in^), son of Major William^ [86] and Anna (Whittlesey) Cogswell,
was born July 25, 1763, in New Preston Parish, New Milford, Conn.
He married, March 12, 1786, Sarah yolinson. She was born in Southbury,
Conn. They resided in Sheffield, Mass , and in Hartford, Conn.
Mr, Cogswell died Aug. i, 1819. Mrs. Cogswell married '^Pliilo Sieifl,
who resided in Cornwall, Conn. There were no children.
]9t02ra))t)ical.
Roger Cogswell graduated from Yale College in 1784. He was a merchant
and an innkeeper. It has been said of him " : He had talent and wealth
to have been one of the first of men. He went into trade in Hartford, and
finally failed."