Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameElizabeth THOMPSON 784
Birth Dateabt 1594
Birth PlaceWestbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England
Death Date2 Jun 1676
Death PlaceIpswich, Massachusetts
Burial PlaceIpswich, Massachusetts (Old North Graveyard)
Immigr Date1635
Immigr Place“Angel Gabriel” from Bristol to Pemaquid, Maine
FlagsImmigrant, Notable Kin Ancestor, Presidential Ancestor
FatherRev. William THOMPSON (~1576-)
Spouses
Bapt Date7 Apr 1592
Bapt PlaceWestbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England
Death Date29 Nov 1669
Death PlaceIpswich, Massachusetts
Burial PlaceIpswich, Massachusetts (Old North Graveyard)
Immigr Date1635
Immigr Place“Angel Gabriel” from Bristol to Pemaquid, Maine
FatherEdward COGSWELL (1554-~1616)
MotherAlice _____ (1559-1616)
Misc. Notes
Donald James Cogswell’s large volume Descendants of John Cogswell784 is a comprehensive record of the line of John and Elizabeth (Thompson) Cogswell through fifteen generations, based on information supplied by the descendants themselves. John and Elizabeth are ancestors of a number of noted people including U.S. Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Calvin Coolidge,328 of Diana, Princess of Wales, of jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes, and of authors Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Julia Ward Howe, William Hickling Prescott, and Edward Arlington Robinson.192

Their ship, the “Angel Gabriel,” was wrecked in a storm 15 Aug 1635 on arrival at Pemaquid, Maine, and many passengers were lost. The Cogswell family were all washed ashore alive, but lost nearly all their possessions.

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Marr Date10 Sep 1615
Marr PlaceWestbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England
ChildrenSarah (~1632-1732)
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