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£4°< - pair of sheets, two pair of Pillstaxes, one of my best gownes & Petticoat. To Margery,
Alice, Margaret, Thomas, & Philadelphia, their children, £4 each. Unto Thomas, children,
Elizabeth Marchaiint, ;^20. To llizabeth Erneley, £40, and sundry articles of linen. To
Bridget, Catharine, Marie, and Anne Erneley, £4 each. To Margery Wilkinge, her daughter,
;^40, & certain articles of linen. To .\nthony & Anne, children of John Wilkinge, £4 each.
To Anthony Cogeswell, .if 100, at the age of 23, and to have his livinge of Ludborne, when
he is 21 years aged. To Jeffrey Cogswell at 23, ;£'ioo. To each godchild twelve pence. I
give unto the poore, 10/. I give unto \Vestburie Church, 10/. The residue of my estate
to John Cogswell, my sonne, whom I appoint my E.vecutor."
y,#vv Whittaker, of Westburie, \ qverseers.
Anthony Selfe, of Dilton, S
(Signed) ALICE COGSWELL.
Probate pending suit, granted to John Cogswell, 11 May, 1616, and subsequent sentence
admitted Walter Cogswell, a son not named in the Will.
JOHN COGSWELL.
\ John Cogswell, son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, was born, 1592, in
\ Westbury, Leigh, County of Wilts. He married, Sept. 10, 1615, Elizabeth
\ Thompson, daughter of the Rev. William and Phillis Thompson. Vid. John
\ Cogswell [11. '
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Rev. William Thompson.
Rev. William Thompson^ Mrs. Cogswell's father, was the Vicar of Westbury
Parish, Wiltshire, for twenty years, froin 1603 to his death in 1623. His
wife, Mrs. Phillis Thompson, died in 1608. The Westbury Register records [
her burial thus: ''Phillis, uxor of Mr. William Thompson^ Vicar, Sepult. 19
yuly, 1608." Of this marriage were Elizabeth, who married John Cogswell, f
Maria, who was baptized in 1604, and other children, as mention is made in I
his will of five daughters. After the death of Mrs. Cogswell's mother, her 1
father married ^Elizabeth , who survived him. Of the second marriage .
were two sons: William, who was baptized April 23, 1615, and Samuel, whose
baptism is thus recorded in the Westbury Register: "1616, Samitell, Jilius \
Wtllmi. Thompsonn, Vicaric de Westburie, baptizat Novemb. 30." \
Samuel Tliompson, Mrs. Cogswell's youngest brother, became the Rev. \
Samuel Thompson, D. D., of London. His son, William Thompson, lived
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with his uncle, John Cogswell, for many years in Ipswich, Mass. J'iil. p. 12. i
In the Public Record Office, London, appears the following conveyance :
11 Charles First, Trinity Term, 1635. ';
Anthony Selfe and Henry .Allvn, Plaintiff, and John Cogswell and i
Elizabeth, his wife, Defendants, whereby Anthony and Henry give to John )
and Elizabeth £^0 sterling for one messuage, tw^o Cottages, one barn, two j
gardens, two orchards, 4J acres of land, one of meadow and four of Pasture, r
with the appurtenances in Westbury and Westbury Leigh, Co. Wilts.
This was undoubtedly the sale of John Cogswell's homestead just on tlie
eve of his departure for New England. i
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