Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

Edward Cogswell

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• • 5th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 8th Generation
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  • Father:
  • William Cogswell Jr. 
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  • Martha Emerson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1686 
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  • 1773 
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  • Hannah Brown
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  Samuel Cogswell

  Nathaniel Cogswell

  Martha Cogswell

  Emerson Cogswell (Ahnentafel No:74 )

• Sources for Edward Cogswell

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Preston, pp. 51-52, Birth records for children of Edward and Hannah Cogswell.
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.5, p. 35.
  • ³ Avery, Clara A., The Averell-Averill-Avery Family: A Record of the Descendants of William and Abigail Averell of Ipswich, Mass., Vol. 1, Chicago: Unknown (1906), 268.
  • ⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 171.