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near the Stone Bridge. He was a member of the First Church in 1746,
and became one of the original members of the South Parish, which was
incorporated by act of the General Court. June 5, 1747. He removed to
Boston, and in 1769 was residing at the corner of Salem and Hanover Streets.
He purchased. Dec. 17, 1771, a hatter's shop, in Concord, Mass., to which town
he soon after removed, and there spent the rest of his days.
JttrtnoranTra.
A/an' Cfls^-sii'^//. the oldest daughter of Emerson and Mary (Pecker) Cogswell, married
Capl. Bu'rley, who followed the seas. Their residence was in Boston, Mass. They had no
children.
/,'/ii/ Pafilliott, whose widow Cnpt. James Pecker married, was an Englishman. He mar-
ried Bridget in England, "June ve 7th, 1710. They had one son, Ebenezer, born April y g'h,
1712." Mr. Papillion died 171S, in London. .Soon after, Mrs. Papillion and her son arrived in
.\merica. Her son, Ebenezer Papillion, followed the seas.
Cipi. Janus Pecker, son of James and Ann (Uavis) Pecker, was born Nov. 15, 1684, in
Haverhill, Mass. He married Mrs. Bridget Papillion. They had two daughters, Mrs. Cogswell
and Mrs. Siis.inna Clarke. Mrs. Clarke wrote verses against the use of tea in the Kevo-
lutiunarv times. Mrs. Pecker survived her husband, Ca|)t. James Pecker, who died April 2S,
17 ',4, and aKii her sDn, Elienezer, who was lost at sea in 1736, at the age of twenty-four years.
Subsequentiv to the death of both husband and son, she writes " : Very pleasant were these
to me while living. The loss of them will make me go mourning to my grave." K paper,
inscribed by her after her husband's death, had the following reference " : He was my truly
worthy and dearly beloved James Pecker, who died .\pril ye iSth, 1734, in the forty-ninth year
of his age, in the division of things to me, his widow, Bridget Pecker." "Open Thou mine eyes
that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy law." Capt. James Pecker devised an estate of
nearlv ;^ 3,000. For a copy of his will, dated April 22, 1734, and of the inventory of his estate,
dated May 10, 1734, vid. "Pen Portr.mt.s," pp. 565-572.
Mys. Mary (Pecker) Cogswell had an uncle, John I'eckcr, of Haverhill, and an uncle,
Daniel Pecker, of Boston, Mass. It is thought, that Dr. James Pecker, of Haverhill, who
married, Dec. 13, 1744, Susannah Cogswell [132], was a near relative.
JONATHAN COGSWELL.
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dfifcncalofitcal.
Jonathan^ Cogswell, (yonatJian^, WilliauP, jFo/in^), son of Capt.
Jonathan" [15] and Elizabeth (Wainwright) Cogswell, was born May i,
1687, in Chebacco Parish, Ipswich, Mass. He married ^Hannah .
Mrs. Cogswell died June 18, 1723. Mr. Cogswell married, July i, 1730,
'^Elizabeth Wade, daughter of Jonathan Wade, of Ipswich. They lived
in Chebacco Parish, on the Cogswell farm. Mrs. Elizabeth Cogswell
died Nov. 17, 1749. Mr. Cogswell died April 2, 1752.