Abigail Tuttle

Other Events:

• Name: Abigail Warner

Abigail married Philemon Warner on 27 Apr 1697 in Ipswich. Philemon was born on 1 Aug 1675 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 6 May 1741. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 10 Jan 1630/31
• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
Simon was a piece of work. Simon was hot headed when just being hot headed could land you in jail. In letters from her mother we find out that he was cheating his father (see the write-up on Simon’s mother to see the letters) which eventually contributed to his mother to being destitute. Apparently the family, and especially Simon, was involved in trade with Barbados. It also seems that Simon spent time in Barbados. In the first letter from 3 October 1656, Joanna says, “simon deals very bad with his father - he lies at Barbados and sends noe Retorns butt spends all, his father will have no mor goods sent to him.” In the second letter from 6 April 1657 she says her husband’s death “left me disolat In a strang land and in dept by Reson of Simans keeping the Returnes from barbadous”. She even believes that problems with her husband’s only two sons contributed to his death. She says, “grife that [he] hath taken for his to sonns hath brought [upon him] a lingring deseas lost his stomuce and pined away never sick tell the day before he died”. In the third letter from 20 March 1657/8 she concludes with “I pray send no goods to simon I heare that of him which will bring my gray head with sorow to the graue with tears”.
Simon spent a lot of time in court. His first time in court was March of 1659 when he was about 28. He was being sued by John Hasletine for stealing a mare and colt. Even though Simon brought many witnesses in his support including a letter from his mother in Ireland (one of the three above), he lost the case. Then, in September, Simon sued John Hasletine for stealing a mare and colt. This time Simon had more witnesses and two more letters from his mother (the other two above). From the best I can tell, when Simon’s parents moved to Ireland the hired Joseph Jewett to manage the estate and the included taking care of the horses. As it turned out, Mr. Jewett was not too honest. He sold the horse to John Hasletine. Joseph Jewett was forced to repay the money he got for the horses.
By 1662, Simon must have patched things up with his mother because he represented her when she was suing Richard Shatswell for non-payment of rent and damage to the estate.
In September of 1663, Simon was ordered to pay fees when his horse got lose:
Symon Tuttle, presented for a rescue of his horse from Mighill Cresie, was fined, and ordered to pay fees to John Pinder, Aron Pengry and Hernry Osborne.
Aaron Pengry deposed that Goodman Cressy, heading Mr. Tuttle’s horse out of the common gate with him, Mr. Tuttle went hastily up to him and struck the horse with a short stick two or three blows, making the horse start out of his hand and run away. Sworn in court.
Symon Tuttle confessed that Said Cressie told him he was driving the horse to the pound.
Obviously he and Cressie did not get along too well. Simon may have let the horse wander often and Cressie decided to get rid of it.
In March of 1664, Simon had his biggest run in with the law:
Symon Tuttle, for his seditions and mutinous carriages, was sentenced to be committed to prison until he put in a bond of 200 li. (pounds), with sureites in 200 li. more for his appearance at the next General Court of election at Boston, the day after the election, and to be of good behavior in the meantime. Richard Shatswell, William Evans and John Gould, sureties.
It’s interesting that Richard Shatswell is now vouching for Simon after he lost the judgment against him by Simon’s mother for back rent and damages. Apparently on the day before the court was meeting, while the soldiers were parading on the green, Simon was went into a treasonous tirade. According to the testimony of Theophilus Willson and William Pritchett:
the day before the Court being traineing day, we being upon the meeting house greene Symon Tuttle being there looking on the souldyers, the sayd Symon broke out into these words, upon ocation speaking of the libertie of the choise of officers, he sayd it were better to live in turkye than heere, wherupon William Pritchett sayd to him, not soe, for it is better heere then there, and if you weare there, you must be subject to the Laws and Goverment of the same and soe you must heere, whervpon he made slight of or laws heere and spake contemptuously of them, and sayd if he weare in England againe, he would soone have our laws and law makers layd neck and heeles, and further sayd if we cannot have the libertye the King gave us, we would winn it by ye edge of the sword, and further saith, but we have lost our opptunitye, but we hope we shall gaine it againe, though the Friggotts be stopt for the prsent. And that the Gouverment of the Country, was in a few sneakeing fellows hands, and hopt we should have a turne and upon a brush would soone be cutt off and have our necks from under the yoke.
Simon’s call for liberty was about 110 years too early. Instead of getting him a position in the army or the Continental Congress, it landed him in jail with a £200 fine. It’s interesting he mentioned Turkey as an alternative to England or New England. Turkey (or more formally the Ottoman Empire) was the most powerful empire at the time. For hundreds of years they had been encroaching on Europe (this ended in 1683 when the Ottomans failed in an attempted siege on Vienna). But, other than that, his tirade seems awfully familiar. Realizing the err in his ways, Simon issued a formal apology prior to being sentenced:
To the Honered court now sitting at Ipswich Humbly sheweth yt wheras your worships have received a complaint against me, I acknowledge the same to be iust and that what I spake was pverse and sinfull, and of a very haynous nature, and therfore I cast my selfe at ye feete of your justice and mercy, and if [you ] should censure me acording to the demerritt of my great offence I have noe reason to complaine, what I have spoken I confesse is much of the nature of that which sometimes Shimen spake against david, & I may truly take up his words, yt your servants doth know that he hath sinned, and I am hartily sorry for my soe great Folly and with him I humbly request that your worships would not impute iniquitye to me, neither remember what your servant did perversly speake, against the laws & authority of this country & that I (though unworthy of it) may have the benifitt of your Clemency, and I trust by the helpe of God I shall not alow my selfe heerafter, for ever speake well as of your selves psonally, soe of the laws & government heere established, but stir up others to doe the like, and if I shallever speake soe vildly againe, I shall never open my mouth to request the like favour, as desireing the very strictnes of iustice agst me ; be pleased therfore but this once to pitty me, and pas by this my offence and you shall for ever ingage your poore peticioner to honer you & speake highly of your clemency "Symon Tuttle”.
The apology did not work too well. We don’t know how much time he spent in jail or if he ever paid the £200 fine. In May, someone named Caleb Kimball was fined for hitting Simon and for breach of the peace. In November Simon acknowledged a debt to Mr. Eleazer Hathorne of a little over £10. In December Simon is sent to prison for non-payment of that debt. Then in March of 1665, Simon is sent back to jail until he paid his £200 fine. His bond for god behavior was removed. They may have let him off as long as he didn’t get into trouble. The trouble may have been not paying his other debt. We don’t know, nor do we know how long he spent in prison this time and whether he paid the fine or not. This was the last time Simon was in trouble in court. He may have learned his lesson. A couple years later he was helping measure the town boundaries so he must have improved his image.


Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

Simon married Sarah Cogswell in 1663. Sarah (daughter of John Cogswell and Elizabeth Thompson) was born about 1646 in Ipswich, Massachusetts; died on 24 Jan 1732; was buried in Old Burying Hill, Ipswich, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Sarah Tuttle

Notes:

Biography:
All genealogies show her being born in England and there was a Sarah who came with her parents on the Planter. However, we can be very confidant that our Sarah died in 1732 at the age of 85 (in her 86th year). That would put her birth at about 1646 a full 13 years younger than the Sarah on the Planter. It is likely that the Sarah from the Planter died and John and Joan had another child named Sarah while living in Ipswich. This works well with her marriage age. Sarah married Simon Tuttle in 1663 and had 13 children. This is a little unlikely for someone born in 1633.
The following obituary is almost definitely our Sarah. It's from the Weekly Rehearsal, 31 January 1732:
Ipfwich, January 14
Died here, Mrs. Sarah Tuttle in the 86th Year of her Age. A gentle woman of a vertuous and pious Character; and what may deferve this Pumblic mention, was blesft with a very numerous Offspring. She had Thirteen Children, and by Seven of them only, One Hundred & Seventy seven Grandchildren and great Grandchildren.

Died:
Her obituary said:
Ipfwich, January 24
Died here, Mrs. Sarah Tuttle in the 86th Year of her Age. A Gentleworman of a vertuous and pious Character; and what may deferve this Public mention was blefed with a very numerous Offspring. She had Thirteen Children and by Seven of them only, One Hundred & Seventy feven Grandchildren and great Grandchildren.

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
People originally thought that John was the son of Thomas, Symon's brother. It was thought that Richard and William who came to New England on the Planter with him were his cousins. This determination was based largely on the fact the maternal grandfather, John Wells, did not name John in his will and Thomas had a son named John. But there is some evidence that the three Tuttle men on the Planter were brothers. And, the will of their father Symon did name John as his second son. The will was written in 1627 and in a different pen was added, "to my sunn John, his daughter Abigaill, five pounds at the age of fifteene." The will was proved in 1630 and Abigail was born around 1628, so it is pretty definite that our John was the son of Symon and not Thomas.
Alva M. Tuttle theorized that John Wells left John out of his will because he married an older widow. Joanna was about four years older and already had a family. This does not seem likely to me. It was not that uncommon for a man to marry a slightly older woman at that time. Also, because John was almost 30 when he got married. It was not appropriate for an unmarried man to live on his own so he likely lived with his family. Therefore, everyone would have been happy when he finally married.
I believe that a more likely explanation was John's personality. John's two sons were not the best of offspring. For more on this see the write-up on John's wife Joanna and John's son Symon. John showed signs of being a rebel and that may not have set well with his grandfather. Since we will likely never know why John Wells left his grandson out of his will we are free to do all the speculating we want.
In 1635, John, his family, his wife's previous children, his two brothers and their families, his mother and his mother-in-law all traveled to New England on the Planter. From Games:
The traveling cohorts to New England, or "companies," could at times be huge. One of the largest family groups traveling together in 1635 was the Tuttle clan from St. Albans, Hertfordshire, who journeyed on the Planter to Ipswich, Massachusetts. St. Albans is an abbey town about 20 miles from London. In the seventeenth century, St. Albans was also a provincial market town. Benjamin Hare’s plan of St. Albans, drawn up in 1634, reveals the dense concentration of houses along the Watling road and around the abbey. For all its provincial importance, the town had only one main street, but it was a crucial thoroughfare whose existence ensured the economic viability of the community as the first major stopping point on the Watling road out of London. For the Tuttle family, the disjunction between life in bustling St. Albans, a city physically dominated by an immense stone abbey, and colonial life in Ipswich must have been stunning.
This disjunction between a “thronged place” and the “wide wilderness” was softened for the Tuttles by the presence of family and neighbors in their new home. The center of the family group contained Joan Antrobus Lawrence Tuttle, born in St. Albans to Walter and Joan Antrobus, and her second husband, John Tuttle. With Joan Tuttle traveled her four children from her first marriage to Thomas Lawrence. Three were underage – John, Marie, and William Lawrence, and the fourth was her daughter Jane, who had married George Giddings, a yeoman of Clapham, Bedfordshire, in 1634. Joan Tuttle also brought her mother, Joan Antrobus, who had been widowed in 1614, and the four children from her second marriage, Abigail, John, Sara, and Symon. This family of twelve was rounded out by three servants transported by George Giddings, and one by John Tuttle.
The Tuttles had achieved in St. Albans a significant degree of local status. Joan Tuttle’s father, Walter Antrobus, had been one of the twenty-four assistants of the borough of St. Albans. Her first husband, Thomas Lawrence, was a constable of the borough in 1614, and at his death left a sizable estate of £823.1.8. John Tuttle, Joan Antrobus’s second husband, was a draper who paid £6 freedom money to the borough and merited the honorific of “Mr” in the court record of this transaction. By 1630 he had served as constable of the borough. Also accompanying the St. Albans Tuttles were Richard and William Tuttle, with their six children, two wives and mother, relatives of John from Bedfordshire, John Tuttle’s original home. Thus, altogether twenty-seven members of the extended Tuttle clan journeyed together, after their rendezvous at the port of London, to New England. Their gather at the port suggests the convenience that a central location like London could offer these relatives who had lived scattered from each other in England.
His family settled in Ipswich where he lived for several years. Eventually, he left New England after becoming discouraged. He seems to be one who did not believe in rules. According to court records he was fined in 1641 and 1645 for keeping cattle in a common fenced area and for selling wine without a license respectively. Also, he sued three men for borrowing his boat and losing it.
According to G. F. Tuttle, he moved to Ireland when Tuttles from New Haven, also disillusioned, were negotiating to buy the city of Galloway. "He established himself advantageously there and did not return." His wife followed him in 1654. He died in Carrickfergus, Ireland. No one is sure where Joanna died.

Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

John married Joanna Antrobus about 1626. Joanna (daughter of Walter Antrobus and Joan Arnold) was born about 1592; died between 1662 and 1673. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Joan Lawrence
• Name: Joanna Tuttle
• Baptism: 25 Jun 1592, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England
• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
Joanna’s second husband John Tuttle became disillusioned with New England and moved to Ireland around 1651. Joanna followed him around 1654. Before she left she rented out the family home and farm to Richard Shatswell. She put her son-in-law, George Gidding (married to her daughter Jane Lawrence) and Joseph Jewett in charge of her assets while she was gone. The lease said (at the time of the agreement, the New Year fell on March 23 each year so it was dated 5 days before 1654):

Agreement, dated Mar. 18, 1653-4, between Mrs. Joanna Tuttell and Richard Shatswell, (signature) for her house and land at Ipswich, the said Joanna Tuttell being attorney to her husband, Mr. John Tuttell, now living in Ireland: That from the fourteenth day of the present month, said Shatswell should for two years enjoy the dwelling house, barns, orchard and outhouses of said Tuttell; also all her meadow, marsh and broken up ground within the common fence, paying to said Joanna at her now dwelling house in Ipswich, 241i. per year in corn, at each year's end; also two ---- and one cow, all of which should be in good condition at the expiration of the time etc. There were also two plow chains and a share and colter, two yoke's and half a harrow of which said Shatswell was to have the use.

In March of 1659, Joanna’s son Simon was sued by a John Hasletine for stealing a mare and colt (interestingly, Hasletine’s attorney was Joseph Jewett). Even though just about all the evidence was for Simon, the jury found in favor of Hasletine. In September of that year, Simon sued Hasletine for stealing the same horse and mare submitting even more evidence and this time the jury found for Simon.

Between the two trials, three letters from Joanna were submitted. They were sent to her daughter Jane and her husband George Gidding. They paint a grim picture of the family and business dealings that Joanna was going through.

The first letter was sent to her daughter Jane in October 1656, 2 ½ years after the lease and before her husband John died, shows that she was having issues with Shatswell and her family. After several niceties, she asks Jane to ask her husband to look into Richard Shatswell who has not paid rent. At this point he owes £48 in corn. She also asks to check in on the mare (Simon’s mare) who is with Joanna’s son-in-law (by Marie Lawrence) Thomas Burnham. Joanna is very upset with Simon for cheating his father. Apparently they were involved in trade with Barbados and Simon seems to have traveled there. Simon never paid his father, his part of the business. The only other Tuttle son seems to be no better. Joanne tells Jane that Jane has many sons and Joanne hopes that Jane’s sons comfort her and are not “such afflictions as ours are”. Here is the letter:

"To my Deare & Louing Daughter Jane Gidding att Ipswich, in New England These:
Dauter Jane hauing an oportunity I could nott omit to let you understand that we are all in good health blessed be god. I hop you Receaved my last dated in february wherein I wright largely which now I shall omit god hath dealt graecously with me and fred me of the troubles of the world the lord give me grace now to spend the litell time I haue to liue more to his glory the letter I Receaved from you I lay by me as a cordiall which I often Refresh myselfe with. If you know how much it Rejoyced me to hear from you you would nott omite I pray lett me hear how your breach is made up in Respect of the ministrey which I long to hear if you haue Mr Cobete I pray present my loue to him and tell him I liue under a very honst man wher I injoy the ordinances of god In new england way we want nothing but more good company the lord increase the number. Jaen I pray intreat your husband to looke to oure besines I hear Richard Schwell hath paid noe Rent I pray speake to him and get it 48 li send me word what increase ther is of oure mare and whether Thomas Burnam have groncelled the house ore not simon deals very bad with his father he lies at Barbados and sends noe Retorns butt spends all, his father will have no mor goods sent to him. I could wish I had no such cause to writ I thinke he and John intends to undoe ther father. Jane you haue many sons the lord blese them & make them comforts to you & nott such aflictions as ours are I haue done only my dear and harty loue to your hussband & selfe and children I leav you to the lord how is abell to keep and preserve you to his heauenly kingdom which is the prayer of your dear and louing mother
Joanna Tuttell.
Carrickfergus,
Oct. the 3d, 56
my deare love to you yor husband and yors
J. T.

The second letter to Jane and her husband, dated April of 1657 starts out by informing them the Joanna’s husband (Jane’s stepfather) John Tuttle died last December. He had never been sick until shortly before he died. Joanna was left “disolat In a strang land and in dept by Reson of Simons keeping the Returnes from barbadous”. So, with no rent and no income from her son Simon, Joanna found herself in debt. Joanna speculates that the grief that her husband felt from his two sons, Simon and John may have contributed to his death. The rent is way behind and she is concerned about the condition of her cattle. She will write to one of her other sons, John Lawrence for help. Joanne is also concerned about the state of her house. If Simon or John come, Jane should “let nott them meddell with anything there”. They will get part of the estate.

Joanna talks of her daughter Hannah who is about to get married to “a good husband one that lous well and a hansom man”. Joanna likes Ireland because there is never frost or snow and never too hot. Here is the second letter:

"To her louing son Gorg Giding dwelling In Ips in New England these:
Sone Giding and dauter
these are to lett you understand that the lord hath taken to himself my deare husband & left me disolat In a strang land and in dept by Reson of Simans keeping the Returnes from barbadous grife that [he] hath taken for his to sonns hath brought [upon him] a lingring deseas lost his stomuce and pined away never sick tell the day before he died which wos the 30th of December I pray talke [with] Mr Jeuett about that which I left with you & him this 3 yeares. I have nott hard of anything that he hath done I cannot hear of the cattell nor what increas the mare hath nor the Rent I pray lett things be Ready for I have wright to John lawrence to take them into his hands if Simon ore John should com lett nott them meddell with anything there my husband hath given them som thing in his will which I shall paie them now I will keep the state in my one hand as long as I live it may be I may se new ingland againe I pray louke to my house that it be not Reuined. hanna is to be maried shortly to a good husband one that lous her well and a hansom man she is a great comfort to me. I sent Jane a smale token by Mr weber that went from hence to Jeimcas and so to new england. I like lerland very well we haue nether frost nor snow this winter butt very tempeat weather which agrees with me well my husbands death went neare the lord give me good of it & make up my losse in him selfe a teach this ----- sharp Rod to submit to the will of my god. that ---- I had need of it I pray Remember me att the throne ---- I should be glad that you would Right to me that I may heare from you. I have not one letter this yeare which I wonder att. Remember me to all yours and to all my friends that aske of me no more att present butt the lord bless you with all sprituall blessings in heavenly things in Christ which is the prayer of your afecinat mother
Joanna Tuttell
hanna Rem her kind loue to you & all yours
Carrackfergus the 6th of Apriell 57.

The third letter is addressed to George almost a year later on March 20, 1657 (remember that 1658 does not start until March 23). She is concerned about Mr. Jewett who is supposed to manage her estate. She says, “I heare he imporues my estate to his one (own) advantage”. He owes £12 to be paid to her son-in-law, Richard Martin in goods but gave Martin “nothing butt beefe that none ellse would take”. The rent farm is now four years behind (almost £100 in corn) and almost another £100 in debts. Her husband’s cousin John Tuttle has offered to buy the horse. She is waiting for £50 from her son John Lawrence to help pay debts in London.

Joanna will soon move because her son-in-law, Hannah’s husband, has been transferred. So, she was obviously forced to live with her daughter because she had no money. Joanna is worried that should she have to move back to New England she will find her home and estate in terrible disrepair.

Joanna closes with a warning to not send any goods to Simon who “will bring my gray head with sorrow to the graue (grave) with tears”. Here is the third letter.

"These For her beloued sonne Mr George Gidding att Ipswich in
New England" ;
Carrickfargus, 20 March '57.
Sonn Giding I Receaued 2 letters from you and am glad to heare of 'your welfear with yours I wonder I heare nothing from Mr. Juete I heare he improues my estaet to his one advantag I praid him to pay my son martin 12li in good goods and he lett him haue nothing butt beefe that none ellse would take I pray you to take care of my estat att Ips and lett nott him do what he list butt take a count of what he doth ther is 4 yeres Rent this march which corns to aboue a hundred pound and in depts ninty seauen pound and I heare my cossen John Tuttle would by the horse he will nott lett him without he pay him Englich goods I sent to deliuer goods to my sonn John lawrence to send me 50 li worth of beuar. I have depts to pay in london and want it much Thomas burnum wold know what to do with the mares if he can not keep them all lett John Tuttell ore you take to of them and for the Rest of the Cattell if they be chargabell sell them ore lett them to some that will haue care of them I am to remoue againe 16 mills nerer my sonn that maried my daueter hannah hath the imployment that my husband was in the tresury is Remoued to another towne & we must goe with it the presence of the lord goe with us they are very louing to me and my life ther by Is very comfortable. If I should com to new Ingland I fare I should goe a beging if Reportes be true my estate de Cays apase for want of lookeing to I heare the house gos to Ruine the land spends it selfe the cattell dye the horses eate themselves outt in keeping so I am licke to haue a small a count butt I hop it will nott proue as I heare if it should he that knows all things will a veneg the widows cause I pray Rem me to your wife my Dear Child hannah Rem her loue to you all so doth Mrs haries the potecaris wife that liued in saint Albanes she dwellse next house to me I haue nott ellse att present butt the blesing of the lord be with you & yours
I pray send no goods to simon I heare that of him which will bring my gray head with sorow to the graue with tears I conclued
and Remaine
Your poore mother
Joanna Tuttell

The problems with Simon seem to have been smoothed out by 1662 because Simon acted as his mother’s attorney in the lawsuit against Richard Shatswell for non-payment of rent. Simon won but it’s not clear what Joanna received. The case was filled with huge disagreements. Simon brought witnesses that said that the home and farm were in terrible condition when Shatswell moved out. Also, the one time Shatswell paid his £24 in Indian corn, the corn was rotten. The £97 in expense mentioned in the above letter were probably for repairs done after Shatswell left. The oven was said to have been a total loss, there were two broken windows, the barn was in ruins and require 300 feet of boards for repair and fences needed mending. There were several other issues.

Shatswell produced bills for expenses and work he and others had done totaling over £48 (two years rent). Also, he produced several witnesses that said the estate was in just as good condition when Shatswell left as when he arrived. The fences were all in good repair.

It’s not clear how much Shatswell was to pay, how he was to pay it, or whether he ever paid.
It’s not known when or where Joanna died, except that she was dead by 1674.

Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

Other Events:

• Immigration: 15 Aug 1635, Pemaquid, Maine

Notes:

Biography:
He came to America on the "Angel Gabriel" which was wrecked off of Pemaquid, ME (near Boothbay Harbor) in 1635. He lost a considerable amount of property. After the wreck he lived on shore in a tent until he was taken away in a boat commanded by Captain Gallerys. He moved to Ipswich where he received a grant for 300 acres (an unusually large amount) in an area called Chebasco in October of 1636. At the time there were only two families in the parish. He became wealthy.

Outside the Lighthouse at Pemaquid Point in New Harbor, Maine, there is a plague honouring John Cogswell. The plague reads:
Near this site on August 14, 1635 John Cogswell and family from Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England, first set foot in America. They arrived on the ship Angel Gabriel which was wrecked here on the following day in a violent storm. The family settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts.
Dedicated on September 28, 1991 at Pemaquid point, Maine by the Cogswell Family Association.

Below is a deposition given 1676 about John Cogswell. I do not know why or where the deposition was given, but a photo copy of the original is in the museum in the lighthouse at Pemaquid Point.
[ The Deposition of William Furber Senr. aged 60 years or there abouts:
This Deponent testefyeth and saith, that in the year of our lord 1635 I the said Deponent did come over in the ship (called the Angell Gabriel) along with Mr. John Cogswell Senr. from Old England, and we were cast ashore at Penmayquid; and I doe remember that there was saved several Casks both of Dry Goods and Provisions which were marked with Mr. Cogswell Senr. Marks and that there saved a tent of Mr Cogswell Senr. which he had set up at Penmayquid; and Lived in it (with the goods that were saved in the wracke) and afterwards Mr. Cogswell Removed to Ipswich; And in november after that ship was cast away I the said Deponent doe well remember that there were several feather beds and I together with Deacon Haines as servants lay upon one of them, and there were several dozen of pewter platters, and that there were severall brass pans besides other pieces of pewter and other household goods as Iron worke and others necessary as for house Repairing and have in the house then. I the said Deponent doe further testify that there were two maires and two cowes brought over in another ship which were landed safe ashore and were kept at misticke till Mr Cogswell had ym. I doe furhter testify that my master, John Cogswell Senr. had three sons which came over along with as in the ship (called Angell Gabriell) the Eldest sones name were William, and he were about fourteen years of age, and the second sonne were called John and he was about twelve years of age then, and the third was about six years of age at that time, and further saith not.
William Farber Senr. came and made oath to all the above written this first of October. 1676.
Before me Richard Martyn, Comisr.

From Jameson:

JOHN COGSWELL.
John Cogswell, son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, was born, 1592, in Westbury, Leigh, County of Wilts. He married, Sept. 10, 1615, Elizabeth Thompson, daughter of the Rev. William and Phillis Thompson. Vid. John Cogswell.
The Rev. William Thompson.
Rev. William Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's father, was the Vicar of Westbury Parish, Wiltshire, for twenty years, from 1603 to his death in 1623. His wife, Mrs. Phillis Thompson, died in 1608. The Westbury Register records her burial thus: “Phillis, uxor of Mr. William Thompson., Vicar., Sepult. 19
July, 1608.” Of this marriage were Elizabeth, who married John Cogswell, Maria, who was baptized in 1604, and other children, as mention is made in his will of five daughters. After the death of Mrs. Cogswell's mother, her father married 2Elizabeth _____, who survived him. Of the second marriage
were two sons: William, who was baptized April 23, 1615, and Samuel, whose
baptism is thus recorded in the Westbury Register: “1616, Samuell, filius
Willmi. Thompsonn., Vicarie de Westburie., baptizat Novemb. 30."
Samuel Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's youngest brother, became the Rev. Samuel Thompson, D. D., of London. His son, William Thompson, lived with his uncle, John Cogswell, for many years in Ipswich, Mass. Vid. p. 12.
In the Public Record Office, London, appears the following conveyance :
II Charles First, Trinity Term., 1635.
Anthony Selfe and Henry Allyn, Plaintiff, and John Cogswell and Elizabeth., his wife. Defendants, whereby Anthony and Henry give to John and Elizabeth £4o sterling for one messuage, two Cottages, one barn, two gardens, two orchards, 4 ½ acres of land, one of meadow and four of Pasture, with the appurtenances in Westbury and Westbury Leigh, Co. Wilts.
This was undoubtedly the sale of John Cogswell's homestead just on the eve of his departure for New England.
THE COGSWELLS ON THE OCEAN.
May 23 TO August 15, 1635.
The Angel Gabriel was the ship on board of which John Cogswell and FAMILY crossed the Atlantic. This vessel, it appears from the Letters of John Aubreys the celebrated antiquary of Wiltshire, was built by Sir Charles Snell for Sir Walter Raleigh, “for the designe for Guiana, which cost him the manor of Yatton Regnell, the farm of Easton Piers, Thornhill, and the Church-lease of Bp. Cannings, which ship upon Sir Walter Raleigh's attainder was forfeited." Vid. Aubrey's Letters, Vol. 2, p. 514, Mss. Bodleian Library, Oxford, Eng.
Sir Walter Raleigh, who was executed Oct. 29, 1618, doubtless made his second and last voyage, A. D. 1617-18, to Guiana, S. A., in the same ship in which the Cogswells came to America in 1635, and which became a wreck off Pemaquid, as Mather says : “was burst in pieces and cast away.”
John Cogswell, with his wife Elizabeth and eight children, embarked May 23, 1635, at Bristol, England, on the Angel Gabriel, for New England. Mr. Cogswell had with him his three sons, William, John, and Edward, and five of his six daughters. One daughter was left in England, who afterward
married and resided in London. Mr. Cogswell took with him several farm and household servants, an amount of valuable furniture, farming implements, housekeeping utensils, and a considerable sum of money. They were detained many days after going on board the Angel Gabriel for lack of wind, so that not until June 4 did they actually set sail from Bristol. On the same day another vessel, The James, sailed, having on board emigrants for America, among whom was Rev. Richard Mather, fleeing religious intolerance in England to find the home of religious freedom in the New World. He became the minister of Dorchester in the Colony of Massachusetts. Rev. Richard Mather was the father of Rev. Increase Mather, D. D., President of Harvard College, and the grandfather of Rev. Dr. Cotton Mather, minister
of Boston, and the distinguished author of the Magnalia Christi Americana. Richard Mather's tombstone was thus inscribed :
“Under this stone lies Richard Mather,
Who had a son greater than is father,
And a grandson greater than either.”
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, Ill., 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 with 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 Aug. 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 they
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 Mather.
Rev. Richard Mather, already mentioned as a passenger on the James, 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 record. Rev. Richard Mather in his reflections, says :
“ ‘And let everything that hath breath praise the name of the 'Lord for ever and ever.’ Who gave unto us his poore servants such a safe and comfortable voyage to New England"
"The particular passages whereof were as followeth : The ship James was commanded by Captayne Taylor. They fell in with the ship Angel Gabriel, also bound for New England, before leaving Bristol Harbor, England." May 27, 1635, while at anchor, Capt. Taylor, of the James, accompanied by Mr. Maud, Nathaniel Wales, Barnabas Fower, Thomas Armitage, and Richard Mather, went on board the Angel Gabriel. Mr. Mather says : “When we came there wee found divers passengers, and among them some loving & godly Christians that were glad to see us there."
The next day, May 28, 1635, being still detained, "the master of the Angel Gabriel & some of their passengers came aboard our ship, and desired to have our company, etc. June 4. Thursday morning, the wind serving us, wee set sayle and began our sea voyage with glad hearts, y' God had loosed us from our long stay wherein we had been holden, and with hope & trust that Hee would graciously guide us to the end of our journey. We were yt set sayle together yt morning five shippes, three bound for Newfoundland, viz. : the Diligence, a ship of 150 tunne, the Mary, a small ship of 80 tunne, and the Bess (or Elizabeth), and two bound for New England, viz. : The Angel Gabriel, of 240 tunne, the James, of 220 tunne."
" And even at our setting out we yt were in the James had experience of God's gracious providence over us, in yt the Angel Gabriel haling home one of her ancres, had like, being carried by the force of the tide, to have fallen foule upon ye forep't of our ship, w'ch made all the mariners as well as passengers greatly afraid, yet by the guidance of God and his care over us, she passed by without touching so much as a cable or a cord, and so we escaped yt danger."
They were detained at Lundy by adverse sea and winds from June 5 to June 9. On the 9th of June the five ships made for Milford Haven, Pembroke Co , Wales, where they anchored, with rough sea and seasick passengers. June 14. Sabbath. Still lying at Milford Haven. "Mr. Maud, Mathew Michel of the James, and many of the passengers of the Angel Gabriel went to church on shoare called Nangle, where they heard two comfortable sermons, made by an ancient, grave minister, living at Pembroke, whose name is Mr. Jessop. His text was Ps. xci 11 : ‘ For He shall give His angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways.'' And his coming was purposed for the comfort and encouragement of us yt went to New England." " I was exercised on shipboard both endes of the day, remayning there for helpe of ye weaker & infirm sort that could not go on shoare."
On the afternoon of Thursday, June 18, "there came to the Angel Gabriel and to our ship, Mr. Jessop, to see the Christians bound for New England. He was a grave and godly old man, one y' had lost a good living because of his nonconformity, and wished us all well, and we were much refreshed with
his godly company & conference."
Still at Milford Haven Mr. Mather speaks of being " exercised both ends of the day," "besides," he says, "the day was more comfortable to us all in regard to ye company of many godly Christians from ye Angel Gabriel, and from other vessels lying in the haven with us, who, wanting means and home, were glad to come to us, and we were also glad of their company, and had all of us a very comfortable day, and were much refreshed in the Lord."
By lack of wind having been delayed at Milford Haven for 12 days, they sailed on June 22, Monday. On the evening of the Tuesday, June 23, they "lost sight of the 3 ships bound for Newfoundland, but the master of the James thought it best to stay for the Angel Gabriel, being bound for New England as wee were, rather than to leave her & go with the other three.
The Angel Gabriel is a strong ship & well furnished with fourteene or sixteene pieces of ordnance, and therefore our seamen rather desired her company ; but yet she is slow in sailing, and therefore wee went sometimes with three sayles less than wee might have done, yt so we might not overgoe
her."
On Wednesday, June 24, "We saw abundance of porpuyses leaping & playing about our ship." "And wee spent some time that day in pursuing with the Angel Gabriel what wee supposed was a Turkish pirate, but could not overtake her."
Mr. Mather speaks of the Sabbath, June 28, 1635, and says, "I was exercised in the forenoon, and Mr. Maude in the afternoon."
"This eve'g wee saw porpuyses about ye ship, and some would fayne been striking, but others dissuaded, because of the Sabbath, and so it was let alone."
The next day by seven o'clock the sailors had a great porpoise on deck. Mr. Mather says: "The seeing him haled into the ship like a swyne from ye stye to the tressle, and opened upon ye decke in viewe of all our company, was wonderful to us all, and marvellous merry sport and delightful to our women & children. So good was our God unto us in affording us the day before, spiritual refreshing to our soules, and ye day morning also delightful recreation to our bodyes, at ye taking and opening of ye huge and strange fish."
In the afternoon, June 29, " Captayne Taylor went on board ye Angel, and took Mathew Michel & mee along with him."
They found that there had been much seasickness on the Angel Gabriel, and two cases of "small pockes well recovered again."
"Wee were intreated to stay supp, there with their Master, &c., and had good cheese, mutton boyled & rosted, rested turkey, good sacke, &:c."
Saturday, July 4, 1635. "This day ye sea was very rough, and we saw ye truth of yt Scripture, Ps. cvii. Some were very seasicke, but none could stand or go upon ye decke because of the tossing & tumbling of the ship." "This day (July 4) we lost sight of the Angel sayling slowly behind us, and we never saw her again any more."
Mr. Mather speaks of Sabbath, Aug. 2. "And ye wind blew with a coole & comfortable gale at south all day, which carried us away with great speed towards or journeyes end, so good was or loving God unto us as always so also this day. Mr. Maud was exercised in ye forenoone & I in the afternoone"
Aug 3. "But lest wee should grow secure and neglect ye Lord through abundance of prosperity, or wise & loving God was pleased on Monday morning about three of ye clock, when wee were upon the coast of land, to exercise us with a sore storme & tempest of wind & rain, so ye many of us passengers with wind & rain were raised out of our beds, and our seamen were forced to let down all ye sayles, and ye ship was so tossed with fearfull mountayns and valleyes of water, as if wee should have beene overwhelmed
& swallowed up.
But ye lasted not long, for at or poore prayers, ye Lord was pleased to magnify his mercy in assuaging ye winds & seas againe about sun rising." He then speaks of "taking abundance of cod & hollibut, wherewith oe bodyes were abundantly refreshed after they had beene tossed with ye storme." .
"Aug. 14. While ancored at the Ile of Shoales, when wee had slept sweetly ye night till breake of day," Mr. Mather adds : "But yet ye Lord had not done with us, nor yet had let us see all his power & goodnesse which he would have us take knowledge of, and therefore on Saturday morning (Aug.
15), at about breake of day, ye Lord sent forth a most terrible storme of raine & easterly wind, whereby wee were in as much danger as I thinke ever people were. For we lost in ye morning, three great ancres & cables, of wich cables, one having cost £50, never had been in any water before, two were broken by
ye violence of ye waves, and ye third was cut by ye seamen in extremity & distress to save ye ship & or lives.
And ye Angel Gabriel being yn at ancer at Pemmaquid, was burst in pieces & cast away in ye storme & most of the cattell & other goodes, with one seaman & 3 or 4 passengers did also perish therein, besides two of ye passengers yt died by ye way, ye rest having ye lives given ym for a prey. But ye James & wee yt were therein, with our cattell & goods, were all preserved alive, viz. : 100 passengers, 23 seamen, 23 cowes & heyfers, 3 sucking calves & mares."
“ The Lord's name be blessed forever.”
A touching incident is narrated of one of the passengers of the Angel Gabriel, more amusing to the reader than it could have been to the parties concerned. The name of this passenger was Bailey. He was a young man and lately married. He embarked, leaving his young bride in England, wishing to acquaint himself somewhat with the new country, and make arrangements for a home in America, and then
return for his wife. But alas ! the frightful disaster from which he had narrowly escaped so wrought upon his mind that he was too timid ever again to risk himself upon the ocean, and the doleful account which he wrote home so intimidated his young bride that she could never be persuaded to undertake the voyage. And so it came to pass, that between this loving couple the broad Atlantic continued to roll, and
this married twain, poor souls, remained separated from each other all the rest of their mortal lives.
Rev. Dr. Increase Mather states as a historical fact that : "The Angel Gabriel was the only vessel which miscarried with passengers from old England to New, so signally did the Lord in his providence watch over the plantation of New England."
John Cogswell and family having crossed the ocean and disembarked at Pemaquid, in the unceremonious fashion narrated, were at last in America. They were the first of the name to reach these shores. The elapse of two hundred and fifty years has given to them a numerous posterity, some of whom in each generation have lived in eventful periods, have risen to eminence, and fulfilled distinguished service in the history of the country.

John Cogswell, the ancestor of the Cogswells in America, as already narrated, was the son of Edward and Alice Cogswell, of Westbury Leigh, in the County of Wilts, England. At the age of twenty-three years he married the daughter of the parish vicar, succeeded to his father's business, and settled down in the old homestead. His parents died soon after his marriage, and he received by inheritance "The Mylls called Ripond, situate within the Parish of Frome Selwood," together with the home place and certain personal property. Like his father, he was a manufacturer of woollen fabrics, largely broadcloths and kerseymeres. The superior quality of these manufactures gave to his "mylls" a favorable reputation, which appears to have been retained to the present day. There are factories occupying much the same locations and still owned by Cogswells, which continue to put upon the market woollen cloths that in Vienna and elsewhere have commanded the first premiums in the world exhibitions of our times.
John Cogswell doubtless found in London a market for his manufactures. He may have had a commission house in that city, which would account for his being called, as he sometimes has been, a London merchant.
Mrs. Cogswell's father was the Rev. William Thompson, vicar of Westbury from 1603 to his death, in 1623. Her younger brother was the Rev. Samuel Thompson, D. D, of London. About twenty years after their marriage, with a family of nine children about them, and having the accumulations of a prosperous business, Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell determined to emigrate to America. The particular reasons which led them to leave England may have been much the same that influenced others in their times. It appears that early in 1635 Mr. Cogswell made sale of his "mylls" and other real estate, and soon after, with his wife, eight children, and all their personal effects, embarked at Bristol, May 23, 1635, for New England. Their passage was long and disastrous. Vid. "The Cogswells on the Ocean." Their arrival in America was after a most unexpected fashion. Having reached the shores of New England, they were landed very unceremoniously at a place called Pemaquid, in Maine, being washed ashore from the broken decks of their ship "Angel Gabriel," which went to pieces in the frightful gale of Aug. 15, 1635, when such a "sudden, dismal storm of wind and rain came as had never been known before by white man or Indian." Traces of this storm remained for years. It was on that terrible 15th of August, 1635, that Parson Avery perished, with these words upon his lips: "Lord, I cannot challenge a preservation of life; but according to thy covenant, I challenge heaven." "Which words," says Hubbard, "as soon as he had ever expressed, the next wave gave him a present dismission into his eternal rest."
The easy verse of Whittier has made the story of that August storm familiar :
"There was wailing in the shallop; woman's wail and man's despair;
A crash of breaking timbers on the rocks so sharp and bare ;
And through it all the murmur of Father Avery's prayer.
The ear of God was open to his servant's last request.
As the strong wave swept him downward the sweet hymn upward pressed,
And the soul of Father Avery went singing to its rest."
Mr. Cogswell and his family escaped with their lives, but well drenched by the sea and despoiled of valuables to the amount of five thousand pounds sterling. They were more fortunate than some who sailed with them, whom the angry waves gathered to a watery grave. On leaving England Mr. Cogswell had taken along with him a large tent, which now came into good service. This they pitched, and into it they gathered themselves and such stores as they could rescue from the waves. The darkness of that first night of the Cogswells in America found them housed beneath a tent on the beach. The next
day they picked up what more of their goods they could, which had come ashore during the night or lay floating about upon the water. As soon as possible Mr. Cogswell, leaving his family, took passage for Boston. He there made a contract with a certain Capt. Gallup, who commanded a small barque, to sail for Pemaquid and transport his family to Ipswich, Mass. This was a newly settled town to the eastward from Boston, and was called by the Indians "Aggawam." Two years earlier, March, 1633, Mr John VVinthrop, son of Gov. John Winthrop, with ten others, had commenced a settlement in Aggawam. An act of incorporation was secured Aug. 4, 1634, under the name of Ipswich. The name Ipswich is Saxon, in honor of the Saxon queen Eba, called " Eba's wych," i. e., Eba's house; hence Yppyswich or Ipswich. Some derive it from Gippewich, meaning "little city." In the early records are found the following enactments of the General Court :
''April 1st, 1633. It is ordered that noe pson wtsover shall goe to plant or inhabitt att Aggawam, withoutt leave from the Court, except those already gone, vz : Mr. John Winthrop, Jun'r, Mr. Clerke, Robte Coles, Thomas Howlett, John Biggs. John Gage, Thomas Hardy, Willm Perkins, M. Thornedicke,
Willm Srieant."
" June 11, 1633. There is leave graunted to Tho: Sellen to plant att Aggawam. 5 August, 1634. It is ordered that Aggawam shal be called Ipswitch."
"At Ipsidge a plantation made upe this yeare. Mr. Ward P _____, Mr. Parker T _____, James Cudworth, 1634."
It was probably near the last of August, 1635, when Capt. Gallup sailed up the Agawam River, having on board Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell, their three sons and five daughters, and whatever of household goods his barque would carry, the rest of their effects being taken by another ship. The settlers of Ipswich at once manifested an appreciation of these new-comers. They made John Cogswell liberal grants of land, as appears from the following municipal records :
''1636. Granted to Mr. John Coggswell Three Hundred acres of land at the further Chebokoe, having the River on the South east, the land of Willm White on the North west and A Creeke romminge out of the River towards William White's farme on the North east. Bounded also on the West with a
Creek and a little (creeke)."
"Also there was granted to him a parsell of ground containinge eight acres, upon part whereof ye sd John Coggswell hath built an house, it being the corner lot in Bridge street and hath Goodman Bradstreet's house-Lott on the South East."
This was doubtless Humphrey Bradstreet, son of Gov. Simon and Ann (Dudley) Bradstreet. Ann Dudley was daughter of Gov. Thomas Dudley.
" There was granted to him five acres of ground," which is thus described : "Mr. John Spencer's buttinge upon the River on the south, having a lott of Edmond Gardiner's on the South East, and a lott of Edmond Sayward's on the south west; with six acres of ground, the sd John Cogswell hath sold to John Perkins, the younger, his heirs and assigns."
The grant of " three hundred acres of land at the further Chebokoe” was some five miles to the eastward, in a part of Ipswich that was constituted, May 5, 1679. Chebacco Parish; and Feb. 5, 1819, incorporated the town of Essex. A settlement had been commenced in the Indian Chebokoe, in 1635, by William White and Goodman Bradstreet. This grant to John Cogswell embraced a swell of land, the western boundary of which is the main road which runs from Ipswich to Gloucester. On the south flows the Chebacco River ; on the north is a brook, which marks the boundary of a farm lately owned by Col.
John P. Choate ; and to the eastward is an arm of the sea. The grant of " a parsell of ground containinge eight acres, upon part whereof ye sd John Coggswell hath built an house," embraced land located near the present site of the court-house. This house, which Mr. Cogswell built soon after his arrival, stood
on the site occupied by the residence of the late Hon. Charles Kimball, where Edward L. Kimball, Esq., now, 1884, resides.
Mr. Cogswell, some time in 1636, put up a log-house and removed to "further Chebokoe," where he spent the rest of his days. His descendants for eight generations, through a period of two hundred and fifty years, have continued to cultivate these ancestral acres. A few rods from where stood the
log-house of the first settler now stands an ancient dwelling-house, which is the third in succession built on or near the same spot to domicile Cogswells in America. This house was erected by William Cogswell in 1732, and is still occupied by Cogswells, the lineal descendants of John Cogswell, of Westbury, England. For more than one hundred and fifty years " The Cogswell House " has withstood time and change. Within its walls have dwelt six generations of the name. In it are carefully treasured many relics and articles of household use, which were brought over in 1635, and survived the wreck of the "Angel Gabriel." These have been handed down from father to son as having belonged to their great ancestor, and are enshrined in various and quaint traditions. This ancient dwelling-house, which is well preserved, is represented by an engraving on the following page.
This engraving is the work of Miss Charlotte Broome Cogswell, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who for some years has been a teacher in drawing and engraving in that city and in New York. She is a lineal descendant of John Cogswell in the eighth generation. Miss Cogswell visited Essex, Mass., in 1882, made a sketch of the Cogswell homestead, and on her return completed the engraving with her own hands.
It appears that John Cogswell was the third original settler in that part of Ipswich which is now Essex, Mass. His comparative wealth, intelligence, and piety gave him an acknowledged prominence in the town and church. On the records of Ipswich his name often appears. It is uniformly distinguished by the appellation of Mr., which in those days was an honorary title given to but few, who were gentlemen of some distinction. There were only about thirty of the three hundred and thirty-five original settlers of Ipswich who received this honor.
Very soon after his arrival, March 3, 1636, by an act of the Court, John Cogswell was admitted freeman, to which privileges none were admitted prior to 1664 except respectable members of some Christian church. To freemen alone were the civil rights to vote for rulers and to hold public office.
For several years Mr. Cogswell and family lived in the log-house with its thatched roof, while many of their goods remained stored in boxes, awaiting some better accommodations. It is said there were pieces of carved furniture, embroidered curtains, damask table linen, much silver plate ; and that there was a Turkey carpet is well attested. As soon as practicable Mr. Cogswell put up a framed house. This stood a little back from the highway, and was approached by walks through grounds of shrubbery and flowers. There is an English shrub still, 1884, enjoying a thrifty life, which stands not far from the site of the old Cogswell manor. This shrub, tradition says, John Cogswell brought with him from England in 1635. Among other relics of their ancestor still treasured by his descendants are articles of personal attire and ornament. A quaint mirror and many other curious things are in the possession of
Messrs. Albert and Jonathan Cogswell, brothers, who occupy the ancient Cogswell house in Essex. Mrs. Mary (Cogswell) Choate had the old clock which struck off the time for John and Elizabeth Cogswell two centuries and a half ago. Not long since, Mrs. Aaron Cogswell, of Ipswich, had in her possession, it is said, the famous coat of arms which has been widely copied in the family. This is described as “ wrought most exquisitely with silk on heave satin.” A few years ago a stranger borrowed the curious relic of this too obliging lady, and, like the jewels of the Egyptians, borrowed by Israelites, it was never returned. As a matter of family interest, although purely traditional and not found anywhere recorded, a fac-simile of the Cogswell escutcheon is here inserted.
For some years after the completion of their new dwelling house Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell lived to enjoy their pleasant home, surrounded by their children, well settled, some of them on farms near by, made of lands deeded to them by their now aged parents. There is found this record : “ Nov. 1651, John Cogswell and Elizbeth, his wife, gave to William Cogswell, their son, a deed of land on the south side of the Chebacco River.” At the same date was given a dwelling-house at Chebacco Falls to his son-in-law, Cornelius Waldo. By these and other similar gifts Mr. Cogswell distributed much of his property among his children, while living. The time came at length, after a life of change, adventure, and hardship, yet of piety, respectability, and divine blessing, and Mr. Cogswell died Nov. 29, 1669, at the age of seventy-seven years. The funeral service was conducted by the Rev. Mr. Hubbard, then pastor in Ipswich, and since known as “ The historian fo New England.” The funeral procession traversed a distance of five miles to the place of burial. They move under an escort of armed men, as a protection against the possible attack of Indians. He was buried in the Old North graveyard of the First Church, but the exact spot is unknown.
Mrs. Cogswell survived her husband but a few years. She died June 2, 1876. The record that remains of her is : “ She was a woman of sterling qualities and dearly beloved by all who knew her.” Side by side in the old churchyard in Ipswich have slept for more than 200 years the mortal remains of this godly pair, whose childhood was passed near the banks of the river Avon ; who, leaving behind the tender associations of the Old World, came with their children to aid in rearing on these shores a pure Christian state. They did a greater work than they knew, and died in the faith of the Gospel ; and while their grave are unmarked by monument of stone, their souls are save forever in Heaven, their memory blessed, and their names honored by a posterity in numbers hardly second to that of Abraham.


Immigration:
The family was on the Angel Gabriel before it was sunk by a hurricane.

John married Elizabeth Thompson on 10 Sep 1615. Elizabeth (daughter of Rev William Thompson and Phillis) died on 2 Jun 1676. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Elizabeth Cogswell
• Immigration: 15 Aug 1635, Pemaquid, Maine

Notes:

Immigration:
The family was on the Angel Gabriel before it was sunk by a hurricane.

Other Events:

• Will: 19 Dec 1627

Notes:

Biography:
From Tuttle - Tuthill Lines in America:
Symon Tootill or Toutills of Ringstead, co Northampton, born say 1560, buried at Ringstead, 15 June 1630; married Isabel Wells, born about 1565, daughter of John Wells of Ringstead, who mentioned her in his will in 1618. Symon was mentioned in his father's will in 1589 and in that of his father-in-law in 1618. The will of John Wells also named all [five] of his Tuttell grandsons. Symon was supervisor of the will of Matthew Harris of Woodford, 5 Nov 1600. His own will was proved 1630 at Northampton. His widow accompanied her sons on the "Planter" in 1635, but no record of her has been in this country, and probably she did not long survive.

Will:
Symon's will:
In the Name of God Amen The nyneteeneth Day of December in the yeare of our Lord god one thousand six hundred twentie seaven I Symon Tuttell of Ringsted in the Countie of Northton yeoman strong in minde and of good and pfect memory thanks and praise be to allmighty god and weighing and considering the frailety of mans life and the uncertainty of this world doe make and ordayne this my psent Testamt contayning therein my last will in mann[er] and forme as followeth that ys to say ffirst I [c]om[m]end and com[m]itt my soule into the hands of Allmighty god Creator assuredly believing through the onely meritte of Jesus Christe my saviour to be made ptaker of Everlasting life And my body I comitt to the earth from whence it came to be buried [torn] Christon burialls at the discrecion of my Executrix hereafter named, hopeing assuredly to receive the same again at the gene[ral] resurreccion not a mortall but an immortall and glorious body. And now as concerning those lands and goodes wch god of his goodness hath lent me I give and bequeath unto Isabell my wife All that moytie or prcell of land meadows and com[m]ons wth theire and each of theire appurtenances wch ys due to me out of the land formerly [?] conveyed to my Eldest sonne Richard and the house messuages or ten[emen]ts wherein I now dwell together with all the houses yards lands meadows pastures com[m]ons comodities and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appurteyning and also All those landes meadows and comons wth thappurtances wch I lately had an purchased of Thomas Holding Edward Asin [?] al[ia]s James, and of Will[ia]m Sillyman and of each of them To have and to hold the same for and during the terme of her naturall life and after the naturall death of decease of ye saide wyfe I give and bequeath all and singular the said mentioned lands and premisses wth their and each of their appurtenances unto Will[ia]m Tuttell my youngest sonne to have and to holde the same unto the saide Will[ia]m Tuttell and to the heirs of his Body Lawfully to be begotten, and for want of such yssue to the second sonne of my sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever Itm I give and bequeath unto John Tuttle my second sonne all that dwelling house wherein Mr Wrothfall now dwelleth wth all the houses thereunto belonging and the yarde and orchard thereunto adjoyning, and sometyme in the tenure or occupason of John White to have and to hold the same unto the saide John Tuttell and to his heirs and assignes for ever Itm I give and bequeath unto Isabel my said wyfe the one halfe [torn] that meadow wch I lately purchased of Joane Bateman wydow to have And to hold the same for and during her naturall life, And I give and bequeath the other Mytie or half of the same meadowe to my sonne Will[ia]m to enter [there] upon ymmediately after my decease, and I likewise give and bequeath unto my said sonne Will[ia]m the other Moytie of the same meadow to enter thereuppon after the naturall decease of my said wyfe to have and to hold the same unto him the said Will[ia]m and to the heires of his bodye lawfully to be begotten, so as he my said sonne [re]linquishes the twentie poundes given to him by his grandfather John Welles in and by his last will and testamet and the fyve pounds wch fell to him by the death of his brother Thomas Tuttell and for want of such issue of the body of the said Will[ia]m I give and bequeath the same meadowe unto the eldest sonne of my said sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever and I doe gie to my sonne Richard [illegible] halfe [illegible] the lord mordant [?] on both sides of it. Itm I give to my sone John and his heirs for ever one dole of meadow [of?] forty foote in same which I purchased of Eusache Morton Thomas Ekins [?]. Itm I give to my sunn John his Daugher Abigaill fiue pounds at the age of fifteene years: Itm I give and bequeath unto the poore of Ringsted aforesaid xxs to be distributed amongst the poorest sorte at the discreson of the minister and churchwardens. Itm I give to my godchildren xxs apeece. Itm I give to my sonne Will[ia]m my best bedsted wth the bedding and furniture thereunto belonging, or therewith usd, the table in the hall wth the frame, halfe a duzzen of framd stooles, the yron barres on the chimneys wth the hookes and hangings the bed whereon he lyeth my best brasse pan my best brasse pott, my mault mill as now yt standeth, my bolting [twine and yeelding?] fatt, the barr of yron and the package [?], and I will that all my sheepe be equally devided betweene my said wife and my said sonne Will[ia]m wth the increase thereof so long as he keepeth himselfe unmarried. Itm I give and bequeath unto my said sonne Richard and to his heirs for ever one acre of leyes wch I purchased of Mr Carier, and half a dusson sheep. Itm I forgive [missing] my said sonne John thirtie pounds. Itm I give more unto my said sonne Will[ia]m my great cubbord in the [missing] the greater chest, two of the biggest chaires, and the chest that standeth by the bedsted. Itm I give unto my grand [childre]n xxs a peece Divided allwaies And I will that all the said Movable goods herein given to my sonne Will[ia]m carefully to apply and husband his mothers business to the best of his power in [missing] of the person herein bequeathed pformed and my funeral expenses discharged. I give & bequeath unto Isabel my said wife [missing] and to be executrix of this my psent testamt and for the better execuson thereof I order [missing] them supervisores thereof and [missing]s. apeece [missing] and seal the day and year above written.

Symon married Isabel Wells. Isabel (daughter of John Wells) was born about 1565 in Ringstead, Northampton, England; died after 1635. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Isabel Toothill or Towtills

Notes:

Died:
She traveled with her children to New England on the Planter in 1635.

Notes:

Biography:
From Antrobus Pegegrees:
Walter Antrobus of St. Albans is mentioned in the Corporation Records as being a Warden of the Shoemakers Company in 1588, and in 1614 one of the "Assistants." He married Barbara Lawrence in 1579; but she died in 1585, leaving no surviving issue, and in 1586-7 he married Jane Arnold. By her he had several children

Walter married Joan Arnold about 1586. Joan was born about 1569. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Joan Antrobus
• Immigration: 1635, Massachusetts

Notes:

Biography:
She was on the Planter with her daughter heading for New England in 1635 at the age of 65, but nothing further was heard from her. She may have died in transit or shortly after.

Immigration:
The family arrived on the Planter.

Other Events:

• Will: 23 Jun 1615
• Probate: 12 Jan 1615/16

Notes:

Biography:
From Jameson:

Edward Cogswell, son of Robert and Alice Cogswell, was born in Westbury Leigh, County of Wilts, England. He married Alice ____ . They resided in Westbury Leigh. Mr. Cogswell died in 1616. Mrs. Alice Cogswell died in the same year.

Edward was a clothier, pursuing the business of his father and ancestors for generations. His estates were designated Ludborne, Horningsham, and Ripond Mylls. Ripond Mylls were located in Frome Selwood, a few miles from Westbury. Frome Sehvood was so named because near the famous Selwood Forest. Mr. Cogswell died early in 1616, and was buried in the churchyard of Westbury. Mrs. Cogswell survived him but a few weeks.

Will:
THE WILL OF EDWARD COGSWELL, CLOTHIER.

Dated, June 23, 1615. Proved, Jan. 12, 1615/6.

"In the name of God, Amen. The 23d of June, 1615, I, Edward Cogswell, clothier, of Westburie Leighe in the countie of Wilts ... do bequeath, My soul to God and my bodie to be buried in the Church or Churchyard of Wesburie. To Margaret Marchante, the wife of Thomas Marchante, £20. To Elizabeth Ernly, the wife of Richard Ernie, £30. To Margery Wilkins, the wife of John Wilkins, £10. To Elizabeth Marchante, the dau. Of Thomas Marchante 20 marks at her marriage. To the other children of my three who shall be born and living at the time of my decease, £4 each. To Elinor Smythe, the wife of Stephen Smythe, 40 shillings. To Joane Freestone, widow, to Margaret Francklene, widow, to Margery Whatley, the wife of John Whatley, to Edith Stevens, the wife of Thomas Stevens, to every of these four my sisters, £2. To Henry Freestone, 10 shillings. To Edward Franklene, 10 shillings. To Robert Cogswell, the son of Stephen Cogswell, ten shillings. To Margery Stevens, the dau. of Thomas Stevens, ten shillings. To Edward Cogswell, the son of Robert Cogswell, deceased, ten shillings. To George Cogswell, his brother, twenty shillings. To every of my godchildren besides these aforesaid, 12 pence. To John Cogswell, my son, £240, bed, bedding, and other household stuff, &c. To my son Anthony, the whole estate, right and interest and term of years which I have in and to Ludborne, with the appurtenances, together with the Lease of the same for the term of his life to be delivered to him at the age of 23. After his death my son John Cogswell to have and enjoy the said Ludborne, &c., for his life only: remainder to Jeffrey, my son. To Anthony, the sum of £8o, and four of my best kyne at 23. To my son Jeffrey Cogswell, all my estate, right and term of years wch I have in little Horningsham, &c., with the Lease of the same for his life only. After his death the said little Horningsham to the party next mentioned in the said Lease to him and his assigns. To my son Jeffrey, £8o and four oxen, now in the hands of Robert Northen of little Horningsham, all to be delivered to him at the age of 23. To my son, John Cogswell, all the right and term of years which I have to the Mylls called Ripond, place situate within the parish of Froome, Selwood for his life. After his death, to the party next mentioned in the Lease thereof to enjoy the remainder of the term. I owe John Boutchcr, my servant, £6o l0s. to be paid at any time on his demand. To Alice, my wife, my dwelling house, &c., so long as she keepeth herself widow and in my name. After her death, to my son John and his heirs forever. To Alice my wife, yearly out of Ludborne, £8, after the delivering up of the same; and from Horningsham £12 yearly, after the delivery of the Lease thereof to Jeffrey; so long as she keepeth herself widow and no longer. The residue of goods and chattels unbequeathed, to Alice my wife, my sole Executrix.
My well beloved Jeffrey Whitaker and Anthonye Selfe, overseers."

(Signed) EDWARD COGSWELL.
WITNESSES.
Robert Foster, Clerk,
Richard Painter^

Edward married Alice. Alice died about 1615. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Alice Cogswell
• Will: 25 Jun 1615, Wiltshire
• Probate: 11 May 1616

Notes:

Will:
From Jameson:

THE WILL OF ALICE COGSWELL.

Dated, June 25, 1615. Proved, May 11, 1616.

"In the name of God, Amen. The 25th June, 1615, I, Alice Cogeswell, of Westburie Leighe, in the countie of Wilts, widowe, bequeath my soul to God & my bodie to be buried in the churchyarde of Westburie. To my daughter Margaret, wife unto Thomas Marchaunt, £40. 2 pair of sheets, two pair of Pillstaxes, one of my best gownes & Petticoat. To Margery, Alice, Margaret, Thomas, & Philadelphia, their children, £4 each. Unto Thomas, children, Elizabeth Marchaunt, £20. To Elizabeth Erneley, £40, and sundry articles of linen. To Bridget, Catharine, Marie, and Anne Erneley, £4 each. To Margery Wilkinge, her daughter, £40, & certain articles of linen. To Anthony & Anne, children of John Wilkinge, £4 each. To Anthony Cogeswell, £100, at the age of 23, and to have his livinge of Ludborne, when he is 21 years aged. To Jeffrey Cogswell at 23, ;! £100. To each godchild twelve pence. I give unto the poore, 10/. I give unto Westburie Church, 10/. The residue of my estate to John Cogswell, my sonne, whom I appoint my Executor."

(Signed) ALICE COGSWELL.
overseers.
Jeffrey Whittaker, of Westburie,
Anthony Selfe, of Dilton,

Probate:
Probate pending suit, granted to John Cogswell, 11 May, 1616, and subsequent sentence admitted Walter Cogswell, a son not named in the Will.

Notes:

Biography:
From Jameson:

Rev. William Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's father, was the Vicar of Westbury Parish, Wiltshire, for twenty years, from 1603 to his death in 1623. His wife, Mrs. Phillis Thompson, died in 1608. The Westbury Register records her burial thus: “Phillis, uxor of Mr. William Thompson, Vicar, Sepult. 19 July, 1608." Of this marriage were Elizabeth, who married John Cogswell, Maria, who was baptized in 1604, and other children, as mention is made in his will of five daughters. After the death of Mrs. Cogswell's mother, her father married Elizabeth _____, who survived him. Of the second marriage were two sons: William, who was baptized April 23, 1615, and Samuel, whose baptism is thus recorded in the Westbury Register: "1616, Samuell, ftlius Willmi. Thompsonn, Vicarie de Westburie, baptizal Novemb. 30."

Samuel Thompson, Mrs. Cogswell's youngest brother, became the Rev. Samuel Thompson, D. D., of London. His son, William Thompson, lived with his uncle, John Cogswell, for many years in Ipswich, Mass. Vid. p. 12.

Rev married Phillis. Phillis was buried on 19 Jul 1608. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Phillis Thompson