Ancestry of
Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

William Cogswell

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Tennessee Williams — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 592 
  • Father:
  • John Cogswell 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Thomson   
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  • Christening Date:
  • Mar 1618/1619 
  • Christening Location:
  • Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England 
  • Death Date:
  • 15 Dec 1700 
  • Death Location:
  • Chebacco, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Susanna Hawkes
  • Marriage Date:
  • BEF 1654 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Hester Cogswell

  Susanna Cogswell

  William Cogswell Jr. (Ahnentafel No:296 )

  Sarah Cogswell

  Esther Cogswell

• Sources for William Cogswell

  • ¹ New England Ancestors Magazine, 2007, Vol. 8.5, p. 39.
  • ² New England Ancestors Magazine, 2002, Vol. 3.5, p. 35.
  • ³ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 100.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1898, Vol. 52, p. 422.
  • ⁵ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. III, G-H, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2003), 255.
  • ⁶ 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), 138-139.
  • ⁷ Cogswell, Rev. William, The New Hampshire Repository, Gilmanton: Alfred Prescott (1846), 136.
  • ⁸ 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.
  • ⁹ Evans, Richard K., The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2007), 216.
  • ¹⁰ 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, 189.
  • ¹¹ Jameson, E. O., The Cogswells in America, Boston: Alfred Mudge & Son (1884), xi, 1, 9.
  • ¹² Lothrop, Thomas J., "John White of Watertown and Brookline, and Some of His Descendants", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 52 (1898), 421.
  • 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), 127, 130-131.
  • ¹⁴ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#48 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: The Ancestry of Novelist Thomas Pynchon", (accessed 11/28/2018).
  • ¹⁵ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 139, 182.
  • ¹⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 2, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1999), 175.
  • ¹⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd and William Addams Reitwiesner, American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1984), 29.
  • ¹⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, comp., Ancestors of American Presidents, 2009 Edition, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2009), 466.