Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

John Cogswell

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• • 8th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 11th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1184 
  • Father:
  • Edward Cogswell 
  • Mother:
  • Alice -----   
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  • Christening Date:
  • 2 Apr 1592 
  • Christening Location:
  • Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 29 Nov 1669 
  • Death Location:
  • Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Thomson
  • Marriage Date:
  • 10 Sep 1615 
  • Marriage Location:
  • All Saint's Church, Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England 
  • Children:
  
  

  William Cogswell (Ahnentafel No:592 )

  John Cogswell

  Phyllis Cogswell

  Hannah Cogswell

  Abigail Cogswell

  Sarah Cogswell

• Sources for John Cogswell

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  • ² New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1885, Vol. 39, p. 324.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 101.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 2008, Vol. 162, pp. 5-7.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1640, A Concise Compendium, Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2015), 71.
  • ⁶ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 190-191, 255.
  • ⁷ Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. II, C-F, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2001), 137-140.
  • ⁸ Cogswell, Rev. William, The New Hampshire Repository, Gilmanton: Alfred Prescott (1846), 136.
  • ⁹ Cutter, William Richard, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1908), 903-904.
  • ¹⁰ Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 330.
  • ¹¹ Ferris, Mary Walton, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Cuneo Press (1931), Vol. 1, pp. 129, 188-189.
  • ¹² Jameson, E. O., The Cogswells in America, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son (1884), xii-xiii, 1, 6.
  • ¹³ Pope, Charles Henry, ed., Paine Ancestry: The Family of Robert Treat Paine, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Including Maternal Lines, Boston: Printed for the Family (1912), 130.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139, 173-174, 182, 215.
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 30-31.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 466.