Governor of Rhode Island John Coggeshall
1601 - 1647 (45 years)
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Name John Coggeshall Title Governor of Rhode Island Born 9 Dec 1601 Harwich, Essex, England 
Gender Male Reference Number 42210 Died 27 Nov 1647 Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA Buried Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA - Coggeshall Cemetery
Person ID I42210 Thompson-Milligan Last Modified 12 Apr 2018
Father John Coggeshall Relationship natural Mother Ann Butter Relationship natural Family ID F14000 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary Gould, b. 1604, England , d. 8 Nov 1684, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 80 years) Children 1. Ann Coggeshall, b. 7 May 1626, Essex, England , d. 6 Mar 1687, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 60 years) [natural]2. John Coggeshall, b. 1619, Essex, England , d. 1 Oct 1708, Rhode Island, USA (Age 89 years) [natural]3. Joshua Coggeshall, b. 1626, Harwich, Essex, England , d. 1 Mar 1689, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA (Age 63 years) [natural]4. Mary Coggeshall [natural] 5. James Coggeshall [natural] 6. Hananiel Coggeshall [natural] 7. Wait Coggeshall [natural] 8. Bedaiah Coggeshall [natural] Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 Family ID F13999 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Died - 27 Nov 1647 - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA 
Buried - - Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Photos John Coggeshall Sr 1601-1647
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Notes - "John Coggeshall, progenitor of the family in America, and first president of the colony of Rhode Island, was a member of an ancient and honorable English family, whose lineage has been traced to the early part of the twelfth century, to one Thomas de Cogeshall, the owner of vast estates in Essex and Suffolk, England, in 1135-54. He married, in England, Mary, born in 1604, died November 8, 1684, at the age of eighty. He emigrated from England to the New World in the ship "Lyon", arriving at the port of Boston, MA, in 1632, with his wife Mary, and three children, John, Joshua, and Anne, on Sept. 16, 1632. He was admitted freeman of Roxbury, Nov. 6, 1632, and two years later, in 1634, removed to Boston, where he became a merchant. He was elected President of the Colony of Rhode Island in 1647. While in this office, he was the founder or was largely influential in founding two cities, two states and two separate and independent governments." From History of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. NY: American Historical Society, 1920.
