The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

Capt. Thnmas Wade was the father of Col. Nathaniel Wade of the Revolution. This Col.
Nathaniel Wade was a personal friend of Washington and Lafayette. He was a grandson
of Col. Thomas and Elizabeth (Cogswell) Wade. Klizalieth Wade, a daughter of Capt.
Thomas Wade, and granddaughter nf Col. Thomas and Kli/abeth (Cogswell) Wade, married
Benjamin Appleton, Esq., son of John and Elizabeth A])])lctun, who was born Nov. 14, 1702.
anc! died Fc-b. 12, 1731. He k-ft daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sar Ji. Mrs. Appleton, widow
of Keniae«m, mairrieii!. March rj, 17 j5, William'* Cog.swell [39]. and her daughter, Mary
Appleton, married Jonathan Cogswell [119].
John Wade graduated in 1693 from Harvard College. He became a minister, and was
ordained pastor of the church in Berwick, Me., Nov., 1702, but died the tollowjng year, "much
esteemed for his talents, piety, and usefulness."
U'llHam Wade "dyed at sea, being kild m fight by a Frenchman, April 3, 1697."
Xathaniel Wade, the next younger son, was drowned at sea, in 1702.
HESTER COGSWELL.
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Hester^ Cogswell, {William-, yance
Lathrop ; d. Nov. 14, 1755.
CHILDREN OF THE SECOND MARRIAGE WERE:
Susanna, b. Jan. 29, 1693. Thomas, b. Feb. 12, 1694. Benjamin, b. Dec. 21, 1696.
JWtmorantia.
Thomas Bishop, father of Samuel Bishop, left an estate of .1^5,000. Mr. Samuel Bishop,
with other gentlemen of Ipswich, invested largely in the purchase of land in a part of Norwich,
now Lisbon, Conn. To these lands his sons subsequently removed and settled. Some time
after Mrs. Bishop married Mr. Burnham, Jan., 1704, she represented to the Judge of Probate
that the property left her by her late husband, /. c. Bishop, was " litell a noufe to in able me
to bring up five or six small children. There being something of land belonging to my chil-
dren, I request your Honor to grant administration to my eldest son, Samuel Bishop." This,
land referred to was doubtless in Norwich, Conn.
Jchabod Griggs, husband of Margaret Bishop, was the son of Joseph and Alice (Crafts)