Re: [COGGESHALL] Hardman AND Cozzens
by Pete & Sandy Coggeshall
BAustiin@AOL,
It is good that you are attempting to correct past errors in the maintenance of cemeteries in this part of Rhode Island. Thank you for that effort.
We in the Coggeshall family commonly refer to "the immigrant John of the first generation in this country" as President John. We do that because he was chosen the first President of Rhode Island and the Providence Plantations on 5-20-1647. He is in fact buried in the Coggeshall cemetery in Newport.
I have access to two genealogy sources on the Coggeshall family in America:
- The 1930 book "The Coggeshalls in America" (TCIA) (which I suspect you also have available).
- The 1988 book "Ancestors and Kin" written by my late father Robert Walden Coggeshall.
Neither source list either Mr. Cozzens or Mr. Hardman in their index of names. Because Mr. Charles Pierce Coggeshall (one of the authors of TCIA) was so meticulous in his search for early Coggeshalls and their relations, I seriously doubt that either man has a direct relationship to the early Coggeshall family in Rhode Island. My basis for this belief is a note that my father added to the bottom of a reprinting of a letter he had received from Charles Pierce in 1932. This book reprinting was done when my father worked with the Coggeshall Historical Association (no longer in existence) to have a reprinting of "The Coggeshalls in America" done in 1982.
Quoting that full note (opposite page 241 in the reprint version):
"Charles Pierce Coggeshall was primarily responsible for the work on the earlier generations of the family, as indicated by his manuscript notes in the library of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston. His first article, 'Material Towards a Genealogy of the Coggeshall Family,' was published in the Rhode Island Historical Magazine (5:173-90), in October 1884, immediately after the first Coggeshall family reunion."
Have you tried contacting the NEHGS in Boston to see if they have any information on either of these unknown men?
PETE Coggeshall
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From: BAustiin(a)aol.com
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Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2006 2:45 PM
Subject: [COGGESHALL] Hardman AND Cozzens
Hello Listers,
I am in the process of photographing every historical stone on Aquidneck
Island, Rhode Island, which consists of 3 towns: Portsmouth, Middletown
and Newport. In the first Coggeshall cemetery, where the immigrant John
of the first generation in this country is buried, there are several stones
stacked against the wall. Further research finds that 2 of these stones
were originally in the old Common Burying Ground (NT001) and 4 more
were originally in Island Cemetery (NT003). I'd like to have them removed
from the Coggeshall lot and taken back where they belong. That still
leaves two that I cannot find in any of the Coggeshall genealogy I have any
access to so I am hoping someone of you may have some information on them.
The first is an EDWARD HARDMAN who died 17 JAN 1733
The 2nd is WILLIAM COZZENS who died 23 OCT 1801
Any help confirming/disproving their Coggeshall relationship will be most
appreciated.
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