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Humility Coggeshall was born in January 1670/71 in Portsmouth, Newport County, Rhode Island. She died after 1719 in Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut.

Caleb Coggeshall was born on 17 December 1672.

Isaac Coggeshall was born about 1677.

John Gibbs was born on 28 July 1670 in Sandwich, Massachusetts. He and Hester Swift were married about 1689 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He died before 16 June 1734 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

John Gibbs had person sources.¹

Mary Hedge Gould was born in 1604 in Halstead, Essex, England. She died on 22 August 1731 at age ~127 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. She was buried in Coggeshall Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island.

Mary was the daughter of Capt. William Hedge(s). She married 1667 Samuel Sturges and in Oct 1679 John Coggeshall as his third wife.

James Coggeshall was born Bef 14 Mar 1628/30 in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England.

Hannah Coggeshall was born before 3 May 1635.

Wayte Coggeshall was born before 11 September 1636. Daniel Gould and she were married on 18 December 1651. She died on 9 July 1718.

Daniel Gould was born in 1626. He and Wayte Coggeshall were married on 18 December 1651. He died on 16 March 1716 at age ~90.

Bediah Coggeshall was born before 30 July 1637.

Mary Coggeshall was born before 22 June 1628 in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England. Joseph Martin and she were married in 1648.

Major John Coggeshall was born about 1624 in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England.¹ He and Elizabeth Baulstone were married on 17 June 1647 in Portsmouth or Newport, Rhode Island. He and Elizabeth Baulstone were divorced on 25 May 1655 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island. He and Patience Throckmorton were married in December 1655. He and Mary Hedge Sturgis were married on 1 October 1679. He died on 1 October 1708 at age ~84 in Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island.

He had a rather messy divorce from Elizabeth Baulstone. See "Betty Baulston and John Coggeshall: an Early Rhode Island Divorce," NEHGS, 149 (1995), p. 365. He disinherited his first three children as a result.

He inherited a farm in southern Newport from his father (must have been a reconciliation), owning 510 acres when he died. He was a petitioner for the new charter granted to Rhode Island by King Charles II in 1663 (after the Restoration) and served the Colony several times as Treasurer and General Assistant. In May 1684 he was appointed Major of Militia for the island. He was one of five RI delegates to the first council hel by Governor Andros of the shortlived Dominion of New England. The latter came to anend as a result of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, when King James II was deposed. He served as Deputy Governor of RI in 1686, 1689, and 1690. Per Carl Boyer, 3, Ancestral Lines, p. 222. Major John Coggeshall had person sources.²

John Coggeshall was born on 24 July 1576 in Halstead, Essex, England. He and Anne Butter were married about 1600. He died in August 1615 at age 39 in Halstead, Essex, England.

John Coggeshall called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his half brother, John Coggeshall, "the Elder," of Halstead, co. Essex, gentleman, born 24 July and baptized at Halstead 29 July 1576, was buried at Halstead 4 August 1615. He married Anne Butter, who, as Anne Coggeshall of Castle Hedingham, co. Essex, widow, made her will [v. N.E. Gen. Reg., loc. cit.] 16 April 1645, which was proved 10 November 1648. She was a sister of John Butter of Thorington, co. Essex, yeoman, the testator of 1624/5, who in his will...names many of his relatives, and leaves 40 pounds to each of the three children of his sister, Anne Coggeshall. In 1640 Anne Coggeshall, widow, was defendant in a bill of complaint...brought in Chancery by Moses Greenewood of Hingham, co. Norfolk, England, who claimed the 40 pounds which had been left to her son, John Coggeshall, by his uncle, John Butter, said Greenewood having, as he alleged, sold merchandise to John Coggeshall after the latter settled in New England. "John Coggeshall was seised of sundry parcels of land in Halstead, which in 1605 he mortgaged to John Sydaye of Pebmarsh, co. Essex, gentleman, as is set forth in the bill of complaint brought in Chancery in 1620 by his son John...." In the lay subsidies for co. Essex, under date of 22 March 1608/9, he and his mother are taxed 5s. on goods valued at 3 pounds.

Anne Butter was born about 1583 in Dedham, England. John Coggeshall and she were married about 1600. She died before 10 November 1648 in Castle Hedingham, Essex, England.

See article on Butter family by G. Andrew Moriarty, NEHGR, 76:278-295.

Was she born in 1579 in Thorington, Essex, England?

Anne Coggeshall was born about 1604.

Anne Coggeshall was also known as Ann Coggeshall.

Katherine Coggeshall was born before 18 April 1607. She was buried on 14 May 1640.

John Coggeshall was born in 1535 in London, England. He and Katherine Wangford were married about 1564 in Halstead, Essex, England. He died on 1 January 1601 at age ~66 in Halstead, Essex, England.

He held Munchensies in Halstead, situated near the Coggeshall bridge, on the left-hand side of the road leading from Halstead to Colchester. He is said to have been a merchant in London. At Halstead, he built an almshouse in 1563.

The Coggeshall family has been traced back 14 more generations to Thomas De Coggeshall, born abt. 1149, occupation: knight.He held Munchensies in Halstead, which is described as "a capital messuage, situated near Coggeshall bridge, on the left hand side of the road leading from Halsted to Colchester. It is so called from the noble family of Montechesy, ancient owners of Stansted-hall in Halstead. Walter Montchensy, a younger branch of that family, held this estate in the reign of King Edward III. John Coggeshall had it in the reigns of King Edward VI, Philip and Mary, and Elizabeth. He made gread additions to the house in 1563. The estate is otherwise called Collups, or Blue Bridge.

John is said to have been a merchant in London. He also built an almshouse at Halstead.

Katherine Wangford was born in 1542 in Halstead, Essex, England. John Coggeshall and she were married about 1564 in Halstead, Essex, England. She died on 22 March 1608 at age ~66 in Halstead, Essex, England.

Katherine Coggeshall was born about 1564.

Katherine Coggeshall was born before 26 December 1564.

William Watson was born in 1654 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. He and Sarah Perley were married. He died on 27 June 1710 at age ~56.

He is not listed in The Great Migration Begins.

Content Stanton was born on 20 December 1675.

John Stanton was born on 22 April 1674.