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Chevy Chase

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Chevy Chase

Comedian, Actor and Writer

    Eleanor Cogan

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    • 8th Great-grandmother of Chevy Chase — 11th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 1033 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1625 
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    • Death Date:
    • AFT 25 Aug 1693 
    • Death Location:
    • prob. Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts 
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    • Children:

      • Mary Deane

      Ezra Dean (Ahnentafel No:516 )

      James Dean

    • Notes: 

    • Eleanor Cogan is said by some to be the daughter of John Strong. Others give her as the daughter of William Cogan. In 1993, evidence was presented in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register

      that proved conclusively that Eleanor was the daughter of William Cogan.

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  • Sources for Eleanor Cogan

    • 1 Dutchess County, NY: The Settlers of the Beekman Patent, Vol. 4, p. 103.
    • 6 Dean, Arthur D., Genealogy of the Dean Family: Descended from Ezra Dean, of Plainfield, Conn. and Cranston, R. I., Scranton, Pennsylvania: F. H. Gerlock and Company (1903), 21.
    • 7 Dean, James Eldon and H. Clark Dean, The Ancestry and Descendants of Walter Deane, 1612-1693, of South Chard, England and Taunton, Plymouth, . . ., Stonington, Maine: Penobscot Press (2013), Vol. 1, pp. 19-46.
    • 8 Edson, Carroll Andrew, ed., Edson Family History and Genealogy: Descendants of Samuel Edson of Salem and Bridgewater, Mass., Ann Arbor, Michigan: Lithographed by Edwards Bros. (1969), 50.

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