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ters by the name of Emerson. Her son, Edward Emerson, born 1670 in Concord, who married,
1697, Rebecca Waldo, of Chelmsford, descended from Thomas Emerson, the first American
ancestor, who came from Durham, England, and descended from Ralph Emerson, in the
County Palatine, who in 1535 received from Henry VHI. a grant of heraldic arms, which the
family of Mr. Emer.son have inherited. Edward Emerson was a cousin of Martha Emerson,
who married William Cogswell, the cousin of Rebecca Waldo. From Rebecca Waldo, Mr.
Emerson derived his middle name and his descent from John Cogswell, [ i ] of Ipswich,
Mass. The eminence of Ralph Waldo Emerson, LL. D., as a scholar, writer, and lecturer, is
acknowledged in Europe and .America. The portrait of this distinguished man appears on
the foregoing page.
Ezra Waldo, of Tolland, was a great-grandson of I)ea. Cornelius and Hannah (Cogswell)
Waldo.
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