Ancestor Report (Continued)
Ancestor Report (Continued)
Thirteenth Generation
7988. Edward COGSWELL752, 10G Grandfather, son of 15976. Robert COGSWELL & 15977. Alice ADLAM. Born in 1554 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England. Died in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England, abt 12 Jan 1615/6.
“Edward Cogswell, son of Robert and Alice Cogswell, 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 Selwood 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.”753
7989. Alice _____752, 10G Grandmother. Born in 1559 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England. Died in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England, on 11 May 1616.
7990. Rev. William THOMPSON754, 10G Grandfather. Born abt 1576. Will dated on 10 Jul 1623 at Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England.
7992. Rev. John (“Roaring John”) ROGERS755,756, 10G Grandfather, son of 15984. John ROGERS & 15985. Mary _____. Will dated on 14 Oct 1636 at Dedham, Essex, England. Died on 18 Oct 1636. Will proved 20 Feb 1636/7. Of Dedham, Essex, England.
Details to be entered from Waters, including an abstract of his will.
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 09:59:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Smyth <smyth@email.unc.edu>
Cc: ROGERS-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [ROGERS-L] Ancestry of Rev. Nathaniel R (1598-1655), MA immigrant
According to a series of articles in the NEHGR, there is, as you say, no
evidence that Rev. Nathaniel Rogers was descended from the proto-martyr,
John Rogers. The father of "Roaring John" Rogers of Dedham, England, was
John (-2) Rogers, a wealthy shoemaker of Moulsham, parish of Chelmsford,
Co. Essex. As far as I know, the family of the mother, Mary, is not known.
John (-2)'s second wife (Mary died in 1579) was Joan Garlinge (who, in
turn, married (2) John Hammond, a surgeon of Moulsham. Roaring John's
second wife, Elizabeth Gold (widow of John Hawes), was the father of Rev.
Nathaniel Rogers.
I have looked a bit at the ancestry of Nathaniel's wife, Margaret Crane,
but not at the ancestry of John(-2) Rogers of Moulsham. He was said to be
"from the North" and the NEHGR articles contain speculation that the
families of John of Dedham and John the proto-martyr might have common
ancestors.
7994. Robert CRANE755,756, 10G Grandfather, son of 15988. Samuel CRANE. Will proved 18 Mar 1658/9. Of Great Coggeshall, Essex, England. Occupation: grocer.
Details to be entered from Waters, including abstract of his will.
7995. Mary SPARHAWK755,756, 10G Grandmother, daughter of 15990. Samuel SPARHAWK. Died aft 1658. Of Dedham, Essex, England.
See under his son, Jonathan Wade, for details.
Child:
3998i.
Jonathan, 9G Grandfather (~1612-1683)
Internet sources identify this John Wright as the son of Richard Wright and Dorothy Russell.
8068. Abraham WARREN4, 10G Grandfather. Born abt 1575. Died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, on 22 Apr 1654. Immigrated ? .
Child:
4034i.
Arthur, 9G Grandfather (-1658)
8080. John ADAMS517, 10G Grandfather, son of 16160. Henry ADAMS & 16161. Rose? _____. Born abt 1555 in Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England. Will dated 19 Mar 1603/4 at Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England. Buried 22 Mar 1603/4 in Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England.
Details from Bartlett to be entered.
Bartlett identifies the wife of John Adams as Agnes, and probably Agnes Stone, daughter of John Stone (details to be entered).
According to Bartlett, John Adams “was born about 1555, doubtless in Barton St. David, and, as far as known, lived there all his life, followinf the occupation of husbandman and succeeding his father in occupancy of the copyhold land. The earliest record found of him is the one just stated when at the age of forty he became administrator of his father’s estate. On 27 May 1597 he became bondsman for Agnes, widow of John Stone of Barton David, executrix of the will of her late husband, and it is not improbable that this record may indicate a relationship usual in such circumstances. The wife of John Adams was named Agnes and she may have been a daughter of John Stone and he bacame surety for his mother-in-law, a common occurrence.
“The deplorable loss of the parish registers of baptisms, marriages and burials in Barton St. David prior to 1714, deprives us of the most important source of information on yeoman families. Parish registers were first ordered to be kept in 1538 and a more stringent law on the matter was enacted in 1558. Furthermore, in 1560 it was ordered that each year copies of the entries for the year should be sent from every parish to the registry of the archdeacon or bishop; and these so-called transcripts still exist in most of the dioceses for por-[p. 41]tions of the period from 1560 to 1640. At Wells the precentage of years preserved is small, but there have been found transcripts from Barton St. David for the years 1598, 1603, 1606, 1607, 1608, 1611, 1612, 1615, 1617, 1622, 1623, 1629, 1634 and 1638. In these transcripts only a few Adams entries appear.
“While on his death-bed and onl three days before his burial, which took place on 22 March 1603/4, John Adams had his will drawn up, apparently completely; but it was neighter signed nor witnessed; possibly he expired suddenly before these acts could be performed. Furthermore, the will was not brought before the ecclesiastical probate court until over five years after his decease, and it was never registered. The original document is preserved in the Probate Registry at Wells, being no. 2 in the bundle for 1609, and a complete verbatim copy of the document is herewith appended: [a transcript of the will appears here]
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8081. Agnes STONE?517, 10G Grandmother, daughter of 16162. John STONE? Buried 15 Jan 1615/6 in Barton St. David, Somersetshire, England.
8082. Henry SQUIRE517, 10G Grandfather, son of 16164. Rev. William SQUIRE. Born abt 1563 in Charleton Mackrell, Somerset, England. Died in probably Kingweston, Somerset, England.
According to Bartlett,759 Henry Squire “was born in Charlton Mackrell about 1563, according to his own deposition in 1580, when he is termed a husbandman or Moorlinch, aged about sixteen years. Probably he was an apprentice to some yeoman in Moorlinch, a parish about seven miles from his birthplace. He returned to Charlton Mackrell where he [p. 55] had children baptized from 1587 to 1599, and probably continued there until about 1613 when he moved into the adjacent parish of Kingweston. He was termed ‘Henry Squire later of Kinweston neere Somerton in Somersetshire,’ 25 Dec. 1649.* [original footnote: * ‘Aspinwall’s Notarial Records,’ Boston, p. 267.”] He therefore probably died in Kingweston, but the exact date has not been learned as the early parish registers are lost and neither will nor administration on his estate can be found.
“He married about 1586, but the name of his wife has not been learned.”
Henry Squire and his wife are ancestors to U.S. Presidents Fillmore and Taft533 (in addition to the other notable descendants reported under his daughter Edith Squire and her husband Henry Adams).
According to Threlfall’s GMC26,660 “JAMES HEALD of Mobberley, Cheshire, was probably born about 1565. He married in February 1590/91, Joan Strettell of Mobberley. Joan was buried in March 1592/3 about three months after the birth of their daughter, no doubt from complications of childbirth.
“Five years after the loss of his first wife, James Heald remarried, in February 1597/8, to Elizabeth Hill of Bowdon, which is the next parish on the north.
“James Heald ‘of the Milne, householder’, was buried in February 1626/7. The widow Heald who was buried 4 December 1640 at Mobberley may have been James’s widow, Elizabeth, but probably not.
“Of his eight recorded children, only two outlived him, and one of those, Anne, died three months after her father. Only John, the youngest, survived to marry and have a family.”
8128. Esdras READ268, 10G Grandfather, son of 16256. Esdras READ & 16257. Bathsheba _____. Born abt 1595 in England. Died on 27 Jul 1680. Buried in Boston, Massachusetts (Copp’s Hill Burying Ground). Immigrated by 1638.
Details from Threlfall to be entered (children’s details also).
8129. Sarah DICKINSON268, 10G Grandmother. Buried in Boston, Massachusetts (Copp’s Hill Burying Ground). Immigrated ? .
8130. Thomas SWIFT760, 10G Grandfather. Born abt 1600 in England. Died in May 1675. Immigrated ? . Of Dorchester, Massachusetts. on 6 May 1635 Massachusetts Colony.
Savage761 notes that not all sources agree on the birthdates of Thomas Swift’s children, and that Thomas’ gravestone gives his date of death as 30 May 1675, but other sources give 4 May 1675.
