The Cogswells in America - citizen hylbom blog

THEIR CHILDREN WERE :
Hannah, [65] b. June 4, 1670; m. Jan. 20, 1692, Josiah Dibetl.
Susanna, [66] b. Nov. 23, 1672.
Wastall, [67] b. Feb. 17, 1674: m. ^Hannah ; m. May 24, 1697, ''Martha ;
d. prior to 1709.
Samuel, [6S] b. Aug. 3, 1677 (1675 ?): m. Mrs. Ann {Mason) Denison.
Robert, [69] b. July 7, 1679.
Joseph, [70] b. April 10, 1682; ni. Aug. 25, 1710, Anna Orvis.
Nathaniel, [71] b. Dec. 16, 1684.
John, [72] b. Aug. 6, 16.S8.
Joshua, [73] m. Mar^ .
l}i'08rapi)tcal.
Samuel Cogswell came to Saybrook, unmarried, .ibout 1665, and settled
on a farm. The Colonial Records of Connecticut state that he was made
freeman. May, 1669. There has been some uncertainty expressed by different
writers as to his parentage and whence he came to Saybrook, also as to the
person he married. There is little doubt he was born in Ipswich, Mass., and
was the son of John' Cogswell t 4], who died on his return passage from London
in 1653, and that he married, as above given, Susanna Haven, of the
town of Lyme, Conn. Lyme was Saybrook until 1667.
fttcmorantra.
S,!miul L\%-mHll, of .Saybruok, Cunn., sulci, Kcl). 9, 1674, five acres uf land in Lyme, Cmn.,
tu Edward DeWulf. for the sum of ;^I2.
Richard llo-CH. Mrs. Cogswell's father, was a farmer in .Saybrook, Conn., in 1645.
Johti H'osta/l, of Saybrook, Conn., deeded, June 13, 1681, to the children of his loving
kinsman, Richard Haven, of Lyme, Conn., 3,000 acres of land in 1 kbmn. Conn., which he had
by will of /cj//K«, .Sachem. It is said that John Wastall mentions in his will Wastall Cogs
well, a son of .Samuel and Susanna Cogswell, as a grandson. This suggests that the wife of
Richard Haven may have been Susanna Wastall (instead of Newhall), a sister perhaps of
John Wastall, and so Richard Haven would be his kinsman. .Some have read the name of
Samuel Cogswell's wife, which is much blotted on the record, " Hearn," others " Wastall "
but it was doubtless .Susanna Haven.
" Siimiicl Cogsuicl! sold 10 acres of salt marsh in Chebacque to .\braham Perkin.-. 1674."
This was land let to his father, John Cogswell, for 1,000 years. The land record shows that
the land willed hy /os/iim, Sachem, was divided into eighty-six shares among the proprietors
of Hebron, in 1702, the quantity being according to quality. John Wastall owned shares
Nos. 44, 66, and 83, about two hundred and si.\ty-three acres. Samuel Cogswell owned two
shares, Nos. 9 and 84, making one hundred and nine and three fifths acres. The disposal of
these lands does not apjjear on the town records of Hebron ; probably to be found in jirobate
record.s, now -n the .'\ndover District. Tolland Co., Conn.
In 1710 proprietors voted a second division of upland to be made, each proprietor receiv-
ing not less than forty nor more than sixty acres on each thousand-acre right. Samuel Cogs-
well received one hundred and one acres. Wastall Cogswell was dead. The same year.
1710, by a third division, Samuel Cogswell received twelve acres.