The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

Harvard College, and the grandfather of Rev. Dr. Colton Mather, rninibtt
of Boston, and the distinguished author of the Magnalia Christi AMERicANji
Richard Mather's tombstone was thus inscribed :
" Stnbei this stont lies Jiitbarb ^atbtr,
eHljD ^ab a son greater than bis fatbtr,
Unb tht a granbson grtattr Iban titber."
The Angel Gabriel was commanded by Capt. Andrews, who had on board
with him two nephews, John and Thomas Burnham, sons of Robert and Mary
(.Andrews) Burnham, and ancestors of the Burnhams in America. There were
on board also Samuel Haines, ancestor of Hon. Andrew Mack Haines, of
Galena, 111., William Furber, and others seeking homes in New England.
Both ships touched at Milford Haven, Pembroke Co., South Wales, and June
22, they put to sea again and proceeded on their way, and many on board
saw the English coast fade from view, never to be seen by them again wiih
mortal eyes. The vessels kept company for about two weeks, when they
became separated, but arrived about the same time on the coast of New
England. The James lay at anchor off the Isles of Shoals, and the Angel
Gabriel off Pemaquid, Me., where the great storm and gale of .-^ug. 15 of that
year struck them. The James was torn from her anchors, and obliged to put
to sea, but after two days of terrible battling with storm and wave, she reached
Boston Harbor with "her sails rent in sunder, and split in pieces, as if thev
had been rotten ragges." The passengers of the James landed in Boston,
Aug. 17, having been twelve weeks and two days on the passage. The Angel
Gabriel fared still worse. "The storm was frightful at Pemaquid, the wind
blowing from the northeast, the tide rising to a very unusual height, in some
places more than twenty feet right up and down ; this was succeeded by
another and unaccountable tidal wave still higher.'' The Angel Gabriel
became a total wreck, passengers, cattle, and goods were all cast upon the
angry waves. Among those who reached the shore with their lives were Mr.
Cogswell and his family. Three or four passengers and one seaman perished,
and there was the loss of cattle and much property. Thus ended the passage
of The Cogswells on the Ocean, and thus became a fact: The Cogswells
IN America.
Journal of Rev. Richard Maiher.
Rev. Richard Mather, already mentioned as a passenger on the Jame^^,
kept a journal in which are found frequent references to the ship Angel
Gabriel, and to the events of the voyage, so interesting and quaint that the
author cannot forbear to quote somewhat at length from this old and curious
rec'ivd. Rev. Richard Mather in his reflections, says :