Age 86
JAMES COGSWELL
Born 1720 Jan 6 Saybrook, Connecticut
Died 1807 June 2 Hartford, CT
James Cogswell, the youngest son of:
Father Samuel Cogswell 1677 Aug 7-1752 Mar 21 Canterbury, CT
Mother Ann (Mason) Denison 1669 Norwich, CT-1753 Jun 17 Lebanon, CT
His family moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1724, and Cogswell spent his youth in that town. He graduated from Yale with the Class of 1742. After graduation, he studied theology with the Reverend Solomon Williams and on December 28, 1774, Cogswell became the pastor of the church at Canterbury, Connecticut. He remained at Canterbury for twenty-seven years.
First Marriage April 24, 1745,
Alice Fitch
Born 1725 Apr 11 Canterbury, CT
Died 1772 Apr 8 Scotland, CT
Age 48
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 70942793
Father Jabez Fitch 1704-1784
Mother Lydia Gale 1699-1753
Children of James and Alice Cogswell
1. James (1746-1792)
Born 1746 July 31
Died 1792 Nov 20-Yellow Fever
Burial Christ Church Cemetery Manhasset, NY
FAG 44233560
First Married August 8, 1776
Elizabeth Davenport
Born 1756
Died 1779 Nov 15
They had one child, Alice Cogswell Fisher 1777-1850
Born June 15, 1777 Stamford, CT
Died 1850. May 9, Orange, NJ
Married August 22, 1805.
Samuel Fisher (1777-1856)
They had six children:
1. Elizabeth D. (1806-1871)
2. James Cogswell (1808-1880)
3. Catherine Avery (b. 1810)
4. Harriet Cogswell (1812-1831)
5. Samuel Ware (1814-1874)
6. Mary D. (1817-1865)
He studied medicine and began his practice in Preston, Connecticut until the
American Revolution interrupted his career and then he served as army
surgeon at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the battle of Bunker Hill. As the
war progressed, Cogswell once again aided the patriot cause with his
services. During the years 1776 and 1777, he was assigned as regimental
surgeon to General Gold Selleck Silliman, who was on duty at New York with
the Connecticut militia. While at New York, Cogswell's younger brother, Mason
Fitch, served as his assistant. After the war ended James returned to Stamford,
CT
Second marriage May 18, 1783.
Abigail Lloyd
Born 1751
Died 1830
Burial
The Cogswells moved to New York
4 Children with Abigail Lloyd
1. James Lloyd Cogswell (1784-1831)
Born 1784 April 26 Stamford, CT
Died on January 5, 1832.
Married May 2, 1819
Sarah Burr Sherwood (1788-1830)
Resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island
3 children:
A. Sarah B. (1820-1875),
B. James A. (1822-1837)
C. Mary Ledyard (1824-1841)
2. Sarah Lloyd Cogswell (b. 1786),
3. John Lloyd Cogswell 1789-1831)
Born 1789. New York City
Died 1831 Apr 13
Married 1821 Oct 31
Love B. Coffin (1792-1857)
Served United States Army during the War of 1812
They resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island.
Five children:
A. John T. (1823-1866)
B. Charlotte Broome (b. 1825)
C. Samuel F. (1827-1858)
D. Alice Fisher (b. 1829)
E. Mason Fitch (1830-1832)
4. Harriet Broome Cogswell MOTT (1790-1843).
Born 1790. Mar 6, New York City
Died Sep 6, 1843.
Married Sept 17, 1819
Robert Willis Mott (d. 1846)
Resided at Great Neck, Long Island
One child; Harriet Stella Mott Onderdonk (1820-1902?)
James Cogswell continued his medical practice at New York with Mason Fitch
as his assistant. They both maintained as apothecary business
James Cogswell contracted yellow fever while attending a stricken patient; and
died on November 20, 1792.
2. Alice Cogsell
Born 1749
Died 1772 May 9 Scotland, CT
Age 23
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70943005
3. Samuel (1754-1790),
Born 1754 May 23, Canterbury, CT
Died 1790 Aug 20 Killed in a hunting accident
Burial Lansburgh Village Cemetery, Lansburgh
FAG 44869294
His father prepared him for college, and he graduated from Yale in 1777.
Samuel Cogswell joined the Continental Army and fought throughout the
Revolution and with his brigade until November, 1783. After the war ended, he
began a mercantile business in Lansingburg, New York.
Married 1784
Mary Backus.
3 Children of Samuel and Mary Cogswell
A. Mason Backus (1787-1790)
B James Fitch (1789-1862)
C Maria (1790-1870).
Cogswell's business was unsuccessful, he decided to study medicine. Before
he could embark upon a new career, he was killed in a hunting accident on
August 20, 1790.
4. Mason Fitch (1761-1830)
Born 1761 Sept 28 Canterbury, CT
Died 1830 Dec 10 Hartford, CT
Age
Burial Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
FAG 6168694
Graduated from Yale College in 1780
Mason served as assistant to his brother James during the Revolutionary
War and afterwards at New York.
In 1789 as a surgeon opened he opened his own practice in Hartford, CT,
where he pioneered the technique of removing a cataract from the eye by
extracting it whole, rather than breaking it, as had been done until that time.
Married April 13, 1800
Mary Austin Ledyard
Born 1775
Died 1849
Burial Old North Cemetery Hartford, CT FAG 130578889
Their 5 children
A. Mary Austin (1801-1868)
B. Elizabeth (1803-1856)
C. Alice (1805-1830)
D. Mason Fitch (1809-1865)
E. Catharine Ledyard (1811-1882)
Mason's daughter Alice was rendered Deaf through an affliction when she was
six years old. Dr. Cogswell made another significant contribution to medicine.
Largely because of Cogswell's influence, Thomas Gallaudet visited Paris, where
he learned as much as he could about the work taking place in France to
educate children handicapped by deafness. Gallaudet returned to America in
1816, with an assistant, Laurent Clerc. Shortly afterwards, Gallaudet, Clerc and
Cogswell established the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb as the first
institution of its kind in the United States.
Cogswell remained active in the medical profession throughout his life. He
served as president of the Connecticut Medical Society from 1812 to 1822.
Mason Cogswell died in Hartford on December 10, 1830.
5. Septimus Cogswell
Born 1769
Died 17732 Oct 28 Scotland, CT
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70942641
Reverend Cogswell resigned his pastorate at Canterbury on November 5, 1771. The following February he accepted the office of pastor at Scotland Parish, in Windham, Connecticut. Two months later, Alice Fitch Cogswell died.
Second Marriage 1773 Jan 31 Hampton, CT
Martha Lathrop Devotion
Born 1716 May 17 New London, CT
Died-1795 Dec 6 Windham, CT
Age 80 yrs
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 51987864
Father Col. Simon Lothrop
Mother his cousin Martha Lothrop
She was the widow of Cogswell's predecessor in Windham, the Reverend Ebenezer Devotion. After twenty-two years of marriage, Martha died on December 6, 1795.
Third Marriage May 5, 1797
Irene Ripley Hebard [Hibbard?]
Born 1729 Feb 11 Windham, CT
Died 1804 Feb 24 Wyndham, CT
Burial Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, CT
FAG 65301390
Her first husband Dr. Timothy Warner died 1749 Jan 11
Her second husband Nathan Heard died 1763 Dec 4
1804, Cogswell resigned his ministerial duties at Scotland and retired to his son Mason's home in Hartford, Connecticut.
Rev James Cogswell died in Hartford on January 2, 1807.
SOURCES
Rev James Cogswellin the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1720
Death Date: 2 Jan 1807
Death Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Age at Death: 87
Rev James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1721
Death Date: 2 Jun 1807
Age at Death: 86
Cemetery: Old North Cemetery
Burial Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Repository: Manuscripts and Archives
Sterling Memorial Library
128 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
Web: http://web.library.yale.edu/mssa
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (203) 432-1735
Fax: (203) 432-7441
Call Number: MS 141
Creator: Cogswell family.
Title: Cogswell family papers
Dates: 1740-1924
Rev James Coggswell in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
Name: Rev James Coggswell
Birth Year: abt 1720
Event: Death
Death Date: Abt 1807
Death Place: Hartford
Age at Death: 87
Newspaper: Columbian Centinel
Publication Date: 10 Jan 1807
Publication Place: Massachusetts, USA
James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: James Cogswell
Marriage Date: 24 Apr 1745
Marriage Place: Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
Spouse: Ellis Fitch
Rev James Cogswell in the Early Connecticut Marriages
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Irene Hebard
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 5 May 1797
Marriage Place: Scotland, Windham
Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 for Rev James Cogswell
Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 20A
P45
Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
Headstone Section a Lot 47
Per Sheron
“OBITUARY.
“The Rev. Doctor COGSWELL, whose death was mentioned in the last week’s Courant, was born January 6, 1720. He was pastor of the first Church in Canterbury about 26 years. Being dismissed from his pastoral relation to that Church and Congregation, he was soon after installed in the Society of Scotland, part of the town of Windham, where he continued upwards of 30 years. In December 1804, having through age become unable to preach, he removed to this town to live with Doctor M. F. Cogswell, his only surviving child. Here he gradually decayed under the infirmities of age and disease until the afternoon of the 2d inst. when he finished his earthly course, and went, as we trust, to receive the rewards of a faithful servant. His funeral was attended on Tuesday the 6th inst. the anniversary of his birth day, by a number of the neighboring clergy, and a numerous concourse of people, when a sermon well adapted to the occasion was delivered by the Rev. Nathan Strong, D. D. from Genesis xv. 15. Thous shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. Through a long life, many of the scenes of which were peculiarly trying, Doctor Cogswell supported the character of a good man, an exemplary christian, and a faithful minister of Christ. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright man, for the end of that man is peace.”
—The Connecticut Courant newspaper (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, January 14, 1807, p. 3, col. 4.
JAMES COGSWELL
Born 1720 Jan 6 Saybrook, Connecticut
Died 1807 June 2 Hartford, CT
James Cogswell, the youngest son of:
Father Samuel Cogswell 1677 Aug 7-1752 Mar 21 Canterbury, CT
Mother Ann (Mason) Denison 1669 Norwich, CT-1753 Jun 17 Lebanon, CT
His family moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1724, and Cogswell spent his youth in that town. He graduated from Yale with the Class of 1742. After graduation, he studied theology with the Reverend Solomon Williams and on December 28, 1774, Cogswell became the pastor of the church at Canterbury, Connecticut. He remained at Canterbury for twenty-seven years.
First Marriage April 24, 1745,
Alice Fitch
Born 1725 Apr 11 Canterbury, CT
Died 1772 Apr 8 Scotland, CT
Age 48
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 70942793
Father Jabez Fitch 1704-1784
Mother Lydia Gale 1699-1753
Children of James and Alice Cogswell
1. James (1746-1792)
Born 1746 July 31
Died 1792 Nov 20-Yellow Fever
Burial Christ Church Cemetery Manhasset, NY
FAG 44233560
First Married August 8, 1776
Elizabeth Davenport
Born 1756
Died 1779 Nov 15
They had one child, Alice Cogswell Fisher 1777-1850
Born June 15, 1777 Stamford, CT
Died 1850. May 9, Orange, NJ
Married August 22, 1805.
Samuel Fisher (1777-1856)
They had six children:
1. Elizabeth D. (1806-1871)
2. James Cogswell (1808-1880)
3. Catherine Avery (b. 1810)
4. Harriet Cogswell (1812-1831)
5. Samuel Ware (1814-1874)
6. Mary D. (1817-1865)
He studied medicine and began his practice in Preston, Connecticut until the
American Revolution interrupted his career and then he served as army
surgeon at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the battle of Bunker Hill. As the
war progressed, Cogswell once again aided the patriot cause with his
services. During the years 1776 and 1777, he was assigned as regimental
surgeon to General Gold Selleck Silliman, who was on duty at New York with
the Connecticut militia. While at New York, Cogswell's younger brother, Mason
Fitch, served as his assistant. After the war ended James returned to Stamford,
CT
Second marriage May 18, 1783.
Abigail Lloyd
Born 1751
Died 1830
Burial
The Cogswells moved to New York
4 Children with Abigail Lloyd
1. James Lloyd Cogswell (1784-1831)
Born 1784 April 26 Stamford, CT
Died on January 5, 1832.
Married May 2, 1819
Sarah Burr Sherwood (1788-1830)
Resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island
3 children:
A. Sarah B. (1820-1875),
B. James A. (1822-1837)
C. Mary Ledyard (1824-1841)
2. Sarah Lloyd Cogswell (b. 1786),
3. John Lloyd Cogswell 1789-1831)
Born 1789. New York City
Died 1831 Apr 13
Married 1821 Oct 31
Love B. Coffin (1792-1857)
Served United States Army during the War of 1812
They resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island.
Five children:
A. John T. (1823-1866)
B. Charlotte Broome (b. 1825)
C. Samuel F. (1827-1858)
D. Alice Fisher (b. 1829)
E. Mason Fitch (1830-1832)
4. Harriet Broome Cogswell MOTT (1790-1843).
Born 1790. Mar 6, New York City
Died Sep 6, 1843.
Married Sept 17, 1819
Robert Willis Mott (d. 1846)
Resided at Great Neck, Long Island
One child; Harriet Stella Mott Onderdonk (1820-1902?)
James Cogswell continued his medical practice at New York with Mason Fitch
as his assistant. They both maintained as apothecary business
James Cogswell contracted yellow fever while attending a stricken patient; and
died on November 20, 1792.
2. Alice Cogsell
Born 1749
Died 1772 May 9 Scotland, CT
Age 23
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70943005
3. Samuel (1754-1790),
Born 1754 May 23, Canterbury, CT
Died 1790 Aug 20 Killed in a hunting accident
Burial Lansburgh Village Cemetery, Lansburgh
FAG 44869294
His father prepared him for college, and he graduated from Yale in 1777.
Samuel Cogswell joined the Continental Army and fought throughout the
Revolution and with his brigade until November, 1783. After the war ended, he
began a mercantile business in Lansingburg, New York.
Married 1784
Mary Backus.
3 Children of Samuel and Mary Cogswell
A. Mason Backus (1787-1790)
B James Fitch (1789-1862)
C Maria (1790-1870).
Cogswell's business was unsuccessful, he decided to study medicine. Before
he could embark upon a new career, he was killed in a hunting accident on
August 20, 1790.
4. Mason Fitch (1761-1830)
Born 1761 Sept 28 Canterbury, CT
Died 1830 Dec 10 Hartford, CT
Age
Burial Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
FAG 6168694
Graduated from Yale College in 1780
Mason served as assistant to his brother James during the Revolutionary
War and afterwards at New York.
In 1789 as a surgeon opened he opened his own practice in Hartford, CT,
where he pioneered the technique of removing a cataract from the eye by
extracting it whole, rather than breaking it, as had been done until that time.
Married April 13, 1800
Mary Austin Ledyard
Born 1775
Died 1849
Burial Old North Cemetery Hartford, CT FAG 130578889
Their 5 children
A. Mary Austin (1801-1868)
B. Elizabeth (1803-1856)
C. Alice (1805-1830)
D. Mason Fitch (1809-1865)
E. Catharine Ledyard (1811-1882)
Mason's daughter Alice was rendered Deaf through an affliction when she was
six years old. Dr. Cogswell made another significant contribution to medicine.
Largely because of Cogswell's influence, Thomas Gallaudet visited Paris, where
he learned as much as he could about the work taking place in France to
educate children handicapped by deafness. Gallaudet returned to America in
1816, with an assistant, Laurent Clerc. Shortly afterwards, Gallaudet, Clerc and
Cogswell established the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb as the first
institution of its kind in the United States.
Cogswell remained active in the medical profession throughout his life. He
served as president of the Connecticut Medical Society from 1812 to 1822.
Mason Cogswell died in Hartford on December 10, 1830.
5. Septimus Cogswell
Born 1769
Died 17732 Oct 28 Scotland, CT
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70942641
Reverend Cogswell resigned his pastorate at Canterbury on November 5, 1771. The following February he accepted the office of pastor at Scotland Parish, in Windham, Connecticut. Two months later, Alice Fitch Cogswell died.
Second Marriage 1773 Jan 31 Hampton, CT
Martha Lathrop Devotion
Born 1716 May 17 New London, CT
Died-1795 Dec 6 Windham, CT
Age 80 yrs
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 51987864
Father Col. Simon Lothrop
Mother his cousin Martha Lothrop
She was the widow of Cogswell's predecessor in Windham, the Reverend Ebenezer Devotion. After twenty-two years of marriage, Martha died on December 6, 1795.
Third Marriage May 5, 1797
Irene Ripley Hebard [Hibbard?]
Born 1729 Feb 11 Windham, CT
Died 1804 Feb 24 Wyndham, CT
Burial Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, CT
FAG 65301390
Her first husband Dr. Timothy Warner died 1749 Jan 11
Her second husband Nathan Heard died 1763 Dec 4
1804, Cogswell resigned his ministerial duties at Scotland and retired to his son Mason's home in Hartford, Connecticut.
Rev James Cogswell died in Hartford on January 2, 1807.
SOURCES
Rev James Cogswellin the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1720
Death Date: 2 Jan 1807
Death Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Age at Death: 87
Rev James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1721
Death Date: 2 Jun 1807
Age at Death: 86
Cemetery: Old North Cemetery
Burial Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Repository: Manuscripts and Archives
Sterling Memorial Library
128 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
Web: http://web.library.yale.edu/mssa
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (203) 432-1735
Fax: (203) 432-7441
Call Number: MS 141
Creator: Cogswell family.
Title: Cogswell family papers
Dates: 1740-1924
Rev James Coggswell in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
Name: Rev James Coggswell
Birth Year: abt 1720
Event: Death
Death Date: Abt 1807
Death Place: Hartford
Age at Death: 87
Newspaper: Columbian Centinel
Publication Date: 10 Jan 1807
Publication Place: Massachusetts, USA
James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: James Cogswell
Marriage Date: 24 Apr 1745
Marriage Place: Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
Spouse: Ellis Fitch
Rev James Cogswell in the Early Connecticut Marriages
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Irene Hebard
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 5 May 1797
Marriage Place: Scotland, Windham
Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 for Rev James Cogswell
Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 20A
P45
Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
Headstone Section a Lot 47
Per Sheron
“OBITUARY.
“The Rev. Doctor COGSWELL, whose death was mentioned in the last week’s Courant, was born January 6, 1720. He was pastor of the first Church in Canterbury about 26 years. Being dismissed from his pastoral relation to that Church and Congregation, he was soon after installed in the Society of Scotland, part of the town of Windham, where he continued upwards of 30 years. In December 1804, having through age become unable to preach, he removed to this town to live with Doctor M. F. Cogswell, his only surviving child. Here he gradually decayed under the infirmities of age and disease until the afternoon of the 2d inst. when he finished his earthly course, and went, as we trust, to receive the rewards of a faithful servant. His funeral was attended on Tuesday the 6th inst. the anniversary of his birth day, by a number of the neighboring clergy, and a numerous concourse of people, when a sermon well adapted to the occasion was delivered by the Rev. Nathan Strong, D. D. from Genesis xv. 15. Thous shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. Through a long life, many of the scenes of which were peculiarly trying, Doctor Cogswell supported the character of a good man, an exemplary christian, and a faithful minister of Christ. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright man, for the end of that man is peace.”
—The Connecticut Courant newspaper (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, January 14, 1807, p. 3, col. 4.
Age 86
JAMES COGSWELL
Born 1720 Jan 6 Saybrook, Connecticut
Died 1807 June 2 Hartford, CT
James Cogswell, the youngest son of:
Father Samuel Cogswell 1677 Aug 7-1752 Mar 21 Canterbury, CT
Mother Ann (Mason) Denison 1669 Norwich, CT-1753 Jun 17 Lebanon, CT
His family moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1724, and Cogswell spent his youth in that town. He graduated from Yale with the Class of 1742. After graduation, he studied theology with the Reverend Solomon Williams and on December 28, 1774, Cogswell became the pastor of the church at Canterbury, Connecticut. He remained at Canterbury for twenty-seven years.
First Marriage April 24, 1745,
Alice Fitch
Born 1725 Apr 11 Canterbury, CT
Died 1772 Apr 8 Scotland, CT
Age 48
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 70942793
Father Jabez Fitch 1704-1784
Mother Lydia Gale 1699-1753
Children of James and Alice Cogswell
1. James (1746-1792)
Born 1746 July 31
Died 1792 Nov 20-Yellow Fever
Burial Christ Church Cemetery Manhasset, NY
FAG 44233560
First Married August 8, 1776
Elizabeth Davenport
Born 1756
Died 1779 Nov 15
They had one child, Alice Cogswell Fisher 1777-1850
Born June 15, 1777 Stamford, CT
Died 1850. May 9, Orange, NJ
Married August 22, 1805.
Samuel Fisher (1777-1856)
They had six children:
1. Elizabeth D. (1806-1871)
2. James Cogswell (1808-1880)
3. Catherine Avery (b. 1810)
4. Harriet Cogswell (1812-1831)
5. Samuel Ware (1814-1874)
6. Mary D. (1817-1865)
He studied medicine and began his practice in Preston, Connecticut until the
American Revolution interrupted his career and then he served as army
surgeon at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the battle of Bunker Hill. As the
war progressed, Cogswell once again aided the patriot cause with his
services. During the years 1776 and 1777, he was assigned as regimental
surgeon to General Gold Selleck Silliman, who was on duty at New York with
the Connecticut militia. While at New York, Cogswell's younger brother, Mason
Fitch, served as his assistant. After the war ended James returned to Stamford,
CT
Second marriage May 18, 1783.
Abigail Lloyd
Born 1751
Died 1830
Burial
The Cogswells moved to New York
4 Children with Abigail Lloyd
1. James Lloyd Cogswell (1784-1831)
Born 1784 April 26 Stamford, CT
Died on January 5, 1832.
Married May 2, 1819
Sarah Burr Sherwood (1788-1830)
Resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island
3 children:
A. Sarah B. (1820-1875),
B. James A. (1822-1837)
C. Mary Ledyard (1824-1841)
2. Sarah Lloyd Cogswell (b. 1786),
3. John Lloyd Cogswell 1789-1831)
Born 1789. New York City
Died 1831 Apr 13
Married 1821 Oct 31
Love B. Coffin (1792-1857)
Served United States Army during the War of 1812
They resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island.
Five children:
A. John T. (1823-1866)
B. Charlotte Broome (b. 1825)
C. Samuel F. (1827-1858)
D. Alice Fisher (b. 1829)
E. Mason Fitch (1830-1832)
4. Harriet Broome Cogswell MOTT (1790-1843).
Born 1790. Mar 6, New York City
Died Sep 6, 1843.
Married Sept 17, 1819
Robert Willis Mott (d. 1846)
Resided at Great Neck, Long Island
One child; Harriet Stella Mott Onderdonk (1820-1902?)
James Cogswell continued his medical practice at New York with Mason Fitch
as his assistant. They both maintained as apothecary business
James Cogswell contracted yellow fever while attending a stricken patient; and
died on November 20, 1792.
2. Alice Cogsell
Born 1749
Died 1772 May 9 Scotland, CT
Age 23
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70943005
3. Samuel (1754-1790),
Born 1754 May 23, Canterbury, CT
Died 1790 Aug 20 Killed in a hunting accident
Burial Lansburgh Village Cemetery, Lansburgh
FAG 44869294
His father prepared him for college, and he graduated from Yale in 1777.
Samuel Cogswell joined the Continental Army and fought throughout the
Revolution and with his brigade until November, 1783. After the war ended, he
began a mercantile business in Lansingburg, New York.
Married 1784
Mary Backus.
3 Children of Samuel and Mary Cogswell
A. Mason Backus (1787-1790)
B James Fitch (1789-1862)
C Maria (1790-1870).
Cogswell's business was unsuccessful, he decided to study medicine. Before
he could embark upon a new career, he was killed in a hunting accident on
August 20, 1790.
4. Mason Fitch (1761-1830)
Born 1761 Sept 28 Canterbury, CT
Died 1830 Dec 10 Hartford, CT
Age
Burial Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
FAG 6168694
Graduated from Yale College in 1780
Mason served as assistant to his brother James during the Revolutionary
War and afterwards at New York.
In 1789 as a surgeon opened he opened his own practice in Hartford, CT,
where he pioneered the technique of removing a cataract from the eye by
extracting it whole, rather than breaking it, as had been done until that time.
Married April 13, 1800
Mary Austin Ledyard
Born 1775
Died 1849
Burial Old North Cemetery Hartford, CT FAG 130578889
Their 5 children
A. Mary Austin (1801-1868)
B. Elizabeth (1803-1856)
C. Alice (1805-1830)
D. Mason Fitch (1809-1865)
E. Catharine Ledyard (1811-1882)
Mason's daughter Alice was rendered Deaf through an affliction when she was
six years old. Dr. Cogswell made another significant contribution to medicine.
Largely because of Cogswell's influence, Thomas Gallaudet visited Paris, where
he learned as much as he could about the work taking place in France to
educate children handicapped by deafness. Gallaudet returned to America in
1816, with an assistant, Laurent Clerc. Shortly afterwards, Gallaudet, Clerc and
Cogswell established the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb as the first
institution of its kind in the United States.
Cogswell remained active in the medical profession throughout his life. He
served as president of the Connecticut Medical Society from 1812 to 1822.
Mason Cogswell died in Hartford on December 10, 1830.
5. Septimus Cogswell
Born 1769
Died 17732 Oct 28 Scotland, CT
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70942641
Reverend Cogswell resigned his pastorate at Canterbury on November 5, 1771. The following February he accepted the office of pastor at Scotland Parish, in Windham, Connecticut. Two months later, Alice Fitch Cogswell died.
Second Marriage 1773 Jan 31 Hampton, CT
Martha Lathrop Devotion
Born 1716 May 17 New London, CT
Died-1795 Dec 6 Windham, CT
Age 80 yrs
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 51987864
Father Col. Simon Lothrop
Mother his cousin Martha Lothrop
She was the widow of Cogswell's predecessor in Windham, the Reverend Ebenezer Devotion. After twenty-two years of marriage, Martha died on December 6, 1795.
Third Marriage May 5, 1797
Irene Ripley Hebard [Hibbard?]
Born 1729 Feb 11 Windham, CT
Died 1804 Feb 24 Wyndham, CT
Burial Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, CT
FAG 65301390
Her first husband Dr. Timothy Warner died 1749 Jan 11
Her second husband Nathan Heard died 1763 Dec 4
1804, Cogswell resigned his ministerial duties at Scotland and retired to his son Mason's home in Hartford, Connecticut.
Rev James Cogswell died in Hartford on January 2, 1807.
SOURCES
Rev James Cogswellin the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1720
Death Date: 2 Jan 1807
Death Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Age at Death: 87
Rev James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1721
Death Date: 2 Jun 1807
Age at Death: 86
Cemetery: Old North Cemetery
Burial Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Repository: Manuscripts and Archives
Sterling Memorial Library
128 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
Web: http://web.library.yale.edu/mssa
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (203) 432-1735
Fax: (203) 432-7441
Call Number: MS 141
Creator: Cogswell family.
Title: Cogswell family papers
Dates: 1740-1924
Rev James Coggswell in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
Name: Rev James Coggswell
Birth Year: abt 1720
Event: Death
Death Date: Abt 1807
Death Place: Hartford
Age at Death: 87
Newspaper: Columbian Centinel
Publication Date: 10 Jan 1807
Publication Place: Massachusetts, USA
James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: James Cogswell
Marriage Date: 24 Apr 1745
Marriage Place: Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
Spouse: Ellis Fitch
Rev James Cogswell in the Early Connecticut Marriages
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Irene Hebard
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 5 May 1797
Marriage Place: Scotland, Windham
Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 for Rev James Cogswell
Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 20A
P45
Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
Headstone Section a Lot 47
Per Sheron
“OBITUARY.
“The Rev. Doctor COGSWELL, whose death was mentioned in the last week’s Courant, was born January 6, 1720. He was pastor of the first Church in Canterbury about 26 years. Being dismissed from his pastoral relation to that Church and Congregation, he was soon after installed in the Society of Scotland, part of the town of Windham, where he continued upwards of 30 years. In December 1804, having through age become unable to preach, he removed to this town to live with Doctor M. F. Cogswell, his only surviving child. Here he gradually decayed under the infirmities of age and disease until the afternoon of the 2d inst. when he finished his earthly course, and went, as we trust, to receive the rewards of a faithful servant. His funeral was attended on Tuesday the 6th inst. the anniversary of his birth day, by a number of the neighboring clergy, and a numerous concourse of people, when a sermon well adapted to the occasion was delivered by the Rev. Nathan Strong, D. D. from Genesis xv. 15. Thous shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. Through a long life, many of the scenes of which were peculiarly trying, Doctor Cogswell supported the character of a good man, an exemplary christian, and a faithful minister of Christ. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright man, for the end of that man is peace.”
—The Connecticut Courant newspaper (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, January 14, 1807, p. 3, col. 4.
JAMES COGSWELL
Born 1720 Jan 6 Saybrook, Connecticut
Died 1807 June 2 Hartford, CT
James Cogswell, the youngest son of:
Father Samuel Cogswell 1677 Aug 7-1752 Mar 21 Canterbury, CT
Mother Ann (Mason) Denison 1669 Norwich, CT-1753 Jun 17 Lebanon, CT
His family moved to Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1724, and Cogswell spent his youth in that town. He graduated from Yale with the Class of 1742. After graduation, he studied theology with the Reverend Solomon Williams and on December 28, 1774, Cogswell became the pastor of the church at Canterbury, Connecticut. He remained at Canterbury for twenty-seven years.
First Marriage April 24, 1745,
Alice Fitch
Born 1725 Apr 11 Canterbury, CT
Died 1772 Apr 8 Scotland, CT
Age 48
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 70942793
Father Jabez Fitch 1704-1784
Mother Lydia Gale 1699-1753
Children of James and Alice Cogswell
1. James (1746-1792)
Born 1746 July 31
Died 1792 Nov 20-Yellow Fever
Burial Christ Church Cemetery Manhasset, NY
FAG 44233560
First Married August 8, 1776
Elizabeth Davenport
Born 1756
Died 1779 Nov 15
They had one child, Alice Cogswell Fisher 1777-1850
Born June 15, 1777 Stamford, CT
Died 1850. May 9, Orange, NJ
Married August 22, 1805.
Samuel Fisher (1777-1856)
They had six children:
1. Elizabeth D. (1806-1871)
2. James Cogswell (1808-1880)
3. Catherine Avery (b. 1810)
4. Harriet Cogswell (1812-1831)
5. Samuel Ware (1814-1874)
6. Mary D. (1817-1865)
He studied medicine and began his practice in Preston, Connecticut until the
American Revolution interrupted his career and then he served as army
surgeon at Cambridge, Massachusetts, during the battle of Bunker Hill. As the
war progressed, Cogswell once again aided the patriot cause with his
services. During the years 1776 and 1777, he was assigned as regimental
surgeon to General Gold Selleck Silliman, who was on duty at New York with
the Connecticut militia. While at New York, Cogswell's younger brother, Mason
Fitch, served as his assistant. After the war ended James returned to Stamford,
CT
Second marriage May 18, 1783.
Abigail Lloyd
Born 1751
Died 1830
Burial
The Cogswells moved to New York
4 Children with Abigail Lloyd
1. James Lloyd Cogswell (1784-1831)
Born 1784 April 26 Stamford, CT
Died on January 5, 1832.
Married May 2, 1819
Sarah Burr Sherwood (1788-1830)
Resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island
3 children:
A. Sarah B. (1820-1875),
B. James A. (1822-1837)
C. Mary Ledyard (1824-1841)
2. Sarah Lloyd Cogswell (b. 1786),
3. John Lloyd Cogswell 1789-1831)
Born 1789. New York City
Died 1831 Apr 13
Married 1821 Oct 31
Love B. Coffin (1792-1857)
Served United States Army during the War of 1812
They resided at Lloyd's Neck, Long Island.
Five children:
A. John T. (1823-1866)
B. Charlotte Broome (b. 1825)
C. Samuel F. (1827-1858)
D. Alice Fisher (b. 1829)
E. Mason Fitch (1830-1832)
4. Harriet Broome Cogswell MOTT (1790-1843).
Born 1790. Mar 6, New York City
Died Sep 6, 1843.
Married Sept 17, 1819
Robert Willis Mott (d. 1846)
Resided at Great Neck, Long Island
One child; Harriet Stella Mott Onderdonk (1820-1902?)
James Cogswell continued his medical practice at New York with Mason Fitch
as his assistant. They both maintained as apothecary business
James Cogswell contracted yellow fever while attending a stricken patient; and
died on November 20, 1792.
2. Alice Cogsell
Born 1749
Died 1772 May 9 Scotland, CT
Age 23
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70943005
3. Samuel (1754-1790),
Born 1754 May 23, Canterbury, CT
Died 1790 Aug 20 Killed in a hunting accident
Burial Lansburgh Village Cemetery, Lansburgh
FAG 44869294
His father prepared him for college, and he graduated from Yale in 1777.
Samuel Cogswell joined the Continental Army and fought throughout the
Revolution and with his brigade until November, 1783. After the war ended, he
began a mercantile business in Lansingburg, New York.
Married 1784
Mary Backus.
3 Children of Samuel and Mary Cogswell
A. Mason Backus (1787-1790)
B James Fitch (1789-1862)
C Maria (1790-1870).
Cogswell's business was unsuccessful, he decided to study medicine. Before
he could embark upon a new career, he was killed in a hunting accident on
August 20, 1790.
4. Mason Fitch (1761-1830)
Born 1761 Sept 28 Canterbury, CT
Died 1830 Dec 10 Hartford, CT
Age
Burial Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
FAG 6168694
Graduated from Yale College in 1780
Mason served as assistant to his brother James during the Revolutionary
War and afterwards at New York.
In 1789 as a surgeon opened he opened his own practice in Hartford, CT,
where he pioneered the technique of removing a cataract from the eye by
extracting it whole, rather than breaking it, as had been done until that time.
Married April 13, 1800
Mary Austin Ledyard
Born 1775
Died 1849
Burial Old North Cemetery Hartford, CT FAG 130578889
Their 5 children
A. Mary Austin (1801-1868)
B. Elizabeth (1803-1856)
C. Alice (1805-1830)
D. Mason Fitch (1809-1865)
E. Catharine Ledyard (1811-1882)
Mason's daughter Alice was rendered Deaf through an affliction when she was
six years old. Dr. Cogswell made another significant contribution to medicine.
Largely because of Cogswell's influence, Thomas Gallaudet visited Paris, where
he learned as much as he could about the work taking place in France to
educate children handicapped by deafness. Gallaudet returned to America in
1816, with an assistant, Laurent Clerc. Shortly afterwards, Gallaudet, Clerc and
Cogswell established the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb as the first
institution of its kind in the United States.
Cogswell remained active in the medical profession throughout his life. He
served as president of the Connecticut Medical Society from 1812 to 1822.
Mason Cogswell died in Hartford on December 10, 1830.
5. Septimus Cogswell
Born 1769
Died 17732 Oct 28 Scotland, CT
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery (North)-Scotland, CT
FAG 70942641
Reverend Cogswell resigned his pastorate at Canterbury on November 5, 1771. The following February he accepted the office of pastor at Scotland Parish, in Windham, Connecticut. Two months later, Alice Fitch Cogswell died.
Second Marriage 1773 Jan 31 Hampton, CT
Martha Lathrop Devotion
Born 1716 May 17 New London, CT
Died-1795 Dec 6 Windham, CT
Age 80 yrs
Burial Old Scotland Cemetery, Scotland, CT
FAG 51987864
Father Col. Simon Lothrop
Mother his cousin Martha Lothrop
She was the widow of Cogswell's predecessor in Windham, the Reverend Ebenezer Devotion. After twenty-two years of marriage, Martha died on December 6, 1795.
Third Marriage May 5, 1797
Irene Ripley Hebard [Hibbard?]
Born 1729 Feb 11 Windham, CT
Died 1804 Feb 24 Wyndham, CT
Burial Windham Center Cemetery, Windham, CT
FAG 65301390
Her first husband Dr. Timothy Warner died 1749 Jan 11
Her second husband Nathan Heard died 1763 Dec 4
1804, Cogswell resigned his ministerial duties at Scotland and retired to his son Mason's home in Hartford, Connecticut.
Rev James Cogswell died in Hartford on January 2, 1807.
SOURCES
Rev James Cogswellin the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1720
Death Date: 2 Jan 1807
Death Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Age at Death: 87
Rev James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Birth Date: abt 1721
Death Date: 2 Jun 1807
Age at Death: 86
Cemetery: Old North Cemetery
Burial Place: Hartford, Connecticut
Repository: Manuscripts and Archives
Sterling Memorial Library
128 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520
Web: http://web.library.yale.edu/mssa
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (203) 432-1735
Fax: (203) 432-7441
Call Number: MS 141
Creator: Cogswell family.
Title: Cogswell family papers
Dates: 1740-1924
Rev James Coggswell in the U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930
Name: Rev James Coggswell
Birth Year: abt 1720
Event: Death
Death Date: Abt 1807
Death Place: Hartford
Age at Death: 87
Newspaper: Columbian Centinel
Publication Date: 10 Jan 1807
Publication Place: Massachusetts, USA
James Cogswell in the Connecticut, Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection)
Name: James Cogswell
Marriage Date: 24 Apr 1745
Marriage Place: Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
Spouse: Ellis Fitch
Rev James Cogswell in the Early Connecticut Marriages
Name: Rev James Cogswell
Gender: Male
Spouse's Name: Irene Hebard
Spouse Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 5 May 1797
Marriage Place: Scotland, Windham
Connecticut, Hale Collection of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices, 1629-1934 for Rev James Cogswell
Connecticut Headstone Inscriptions Vol 20A
P45
Old North Cemetery, Hartford, CT
Headstone Section a Lot 47
Per Sheron
“OBITUARY.
“The Rev. Doctor COGSWELL, whose death was mentioned in the last week’s Courant, was born January 6, 1720. He was pastor of the first Church in Canterbury about 26 years. Being dismissed from his pastoral relation to that Church and Congregation, he was soon after installed in the Society of Scotland, part of the town of Windham, where he continued upwards of 30 years. In December 1804, having through age become unable to preach, he removed to this town to live with Doctor M. F. Cogswell, his only surviving child. Here he gradually decayed under the infirmities of age and disease until the afternoon of the 2d inst. when he finished his earthly course, and went, as we trust, to receive the rewards of a faithful servant. His funeral was attended on Tuesday the 6th inst. the anniversary of his birth day, by a number of the neighboring clergy, and a numerous concourse of people, when a sermon well adapted to the occasion was delivered by the Rev. Nathan Strong, D. D. from Genesis xv. 15. Thous shalt go to thy fathers in peace, and be buried in a good old age. Through a long life, many of the scenes of which were peculiarly trying, Doctor Cogswell supported the character of a good man, an exemplary christian, and a faithful minister of Christ. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright man, for the end of that man is peace.”
—The Connecticut Courant newspaper (Hartford, Connecticut), Wednesday, January 14, 1807, p. 3, col. 4.
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