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Surnames: Cogswell Davenport Nace Fisher
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gUJ.2ACIB/174
Message Board Post:
I was browsing Ebay and came across someone selling an old photo album containing almost 100 photos of the Fisher family and their allied families. I have copied and pasted part of the description here for you:
According to bits of handwritten genealogy, in period ink, on the first page of the album, relatives of the Fisher family are traced back to Alice Cogswell (1805-1830), the deaf child of Dr. Mason Cogswell. In order to help his daughter and others like her, Mason Cogswell, along with Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, founded the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf in 1819, the first school for the deaf in America, which is now the present American School for the Deaf at Hartford.
Mention is made of a cousin to the deaf girl, another Alice Cogswell (with record of birth & death dates: 1777-1851), who was the child of Dr. James and Elizabeth Davenport Cogswell. Through our research we have discovered that the Davenports were descendents of Rev. John Davenport, a Puritan who separated himself from the Church of England because of his disapproval of the corruption and greed of the King and wealthy noblemen who confiscated church property for their own use, leaving the clergy with very little means to carry on their work in the church...........
To read more of this and get a look at the album go to the following link .. the auction closes on Jun-09-06 10:33:38 pacific daylight time.
http://cgi.ebay.com/PURITAN-JOHN-DAVENPORT-DESCENDENTS-FISHER-PHOTO-ALBUM...