John COGGESHALL

Father: John COGGESHALL
Mother: Ann BUTTER

Family 1: Mary //

(1) New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins via Ancestry.com

  1. John COGGESHALL
  2. Ann COGGESHALL
  3. Mary COGGESHALL
  4. James COGGESHALL
  5. Joshua COGGESHALL
  6. Hananiel COGGESHALL
  7. Wait COGGESHALL
  8. Bediah COGGESHALL
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Updated February 18, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins via Ancestry.com

- NAME: John COGGESHALL
- "BIRTH: Baptized Halstead, Essex, 9 December 1601, son of John and Ann (BUTTER) COGGESHALL [NEHGR 73:21]."
- "DEATH: Buried Newport 27 November 1647 [RIMM, Deaths 1; see also TAG 34:169]."
- "MARRIAGE: By about 1624 Mary ___ (she is first seen in 1632 at admission to Roxbury church, but there is no evidence of an earlier wife); she died at Newport 8 November 1684..."
- "CHILDREN: John... Anne... Mary... James... Joshua... Hananiel... Wait... Bediah..."
- "MIGRATION: 1632 on Lyon [Hotten 150]"
- "FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury"
- "REMOVES: Boston 1634, Portsmouth 1638, Newport 1639"
- "OCCUPATION: Mercer, merchant."
- "OFFICES: Deputy to General Court for Boston... Boston Selectman... Chosen moderator of the first meeting under the charter for the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and then at the same meeting elected president, May 1647"

"John COGGESHALL was one of the strongest supporters of Rev. John WHEELWRIGHT during the Antinomian Controversy."

He was "fourth on the list of founding settlers of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, on 7 March 1637/8 [RICR 1:52]... and then on 28 April 1639 was one of the founding settlers of Newport [RICR 1:87], where he continued in the office of elder."

(2) John Coggeshall via Wikipedia

"John COGGESHALL Sr. (2 December 1599 – 27 November 1647) was one of the founders of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations and the first President of all four towns in the Colony. He was a successful silk merchant in Essex, England, but he emigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1632 and quickly assumed a number of roles in the colonial government. In the mid-1630s, he became a supporter of dissident minister John WHEELWRIGHT and of Anne HUTCHINSON. HUTCHINSON was tried as a heretic in 1637, and COGGESHALL was one of three deputies who voted for her acquittal. She was banished from the colony in 1638, and the three deputies who voted for her acquittal were also compelled to leave. Before leaving Boston, COGGESHALL and many other HUTCHINSON supporters signed the Portsmouth Compact in March 1638 agreeing to form a government based on the individual consent of the inhabitants. They then established the settlement of Portsmouth on Aquidneck Island (called Rhode Island at the time), one of the four towns comprising the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. COGGESHALL was very active in civil affairs, but a rift in the leadership of the colony caused him and several other leaders to leave in 1639, moving to the south end of the island and establishing the town of Newport. The towns of Portsmouth and Newport reunited in 1640 under the leadership of William CODDINGTON, and COGGESHALL was his assistant until 1647 when the two towns on Rhode Island united to form a common government with the towns of Providence and Warwick, and COGGESHALL was elected President of the entire Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. His tenure was very short due to his death later the same year, but during his administration many laws were established which became the basis for the colony and the future State of Rhode Island... Places named for President COGGESHALL include John Coggeshall Elementary School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Coggeshall Way and Coggeshall Circle in rural Middletown; and Coggeshall Avenue in Newport, which goes through the original Coggeshall property."

(3) The Coggeshalls in America : genealogy of the descendants of John Coggeshall of Newport via Ancestry.com

"JOHN COGGESHALL (John, John) of co. Essex, England and of New England, mercer and merchant; baptized at Halstead, co. Essex, December 9, 1601; died at Newport, R.I., November 27, 1647. He married in England, Mary ___, born probably in England, about 1604; died in Newport, November 8, 1684."

(4) Rhode Island, U.S., Vital Extracts via Ancestry.com; Rhode Island Friends Record -- Deaths.

"COGGESHALL John, (president) Newport, aged 48 years, Nov. 27, 1647."

(5) Rhode Island, U.S., Historical Cemetery Commission Index via Ancestry.com

- Name: John, Sr, Esq COGGESLALL
- Birth Date: 1591
- Death Date: 27 Nov 1647
- Burial Place: Rhode Island, USA
- Cemetery: COGGESHALL BURIAL GROUND
- Condition: good
- Stone Material: slate
- Shape: fancy top
- Carving: skull with wings
- Notes: "age about 56", "President of the colony" This is the oldest gravestone in Rhode Island although it was probably ordered at the same time as his wife's stone in 1684. There is also a large granite monument for John and his wife Mary near the center of the cemetery - GGMU0G 144x44 [QUAK note: 27th day 9th mo 1647 - buried on his land on the right of way from town to his house. Quaker records give his age as 48, thus a birth year of 1599.][bap. 9 Dec 1601 at Halstead Co. Essex, England.]

(6) Find a Grave

- Name: John COGGESHALL
- Birth: 9 Dec 1601; Harwich, Tendring District, Essex, England
- Death: 27 Nov 1647 (aged 45); Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
- Burial: Coggeshall Cemetery; Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
- Memorial ID: 11077857