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(II) Edward, son of Robert Cogswell, was born in Westbury Leigh, county Wilts, Eng- land, and was a clothier there, carrying on the business which his family had carried on for generations. He died in 1616. His estates were designated as Ludborne, Horningsham and Ripond Mylls. Children : Margaret, Eliza- beth, died young ; Robert, died young ; Andrew and Robert, twins; John, mentioned below ; Margery, Anthony, died young; Anthony. Geoffrey, Elenor, Walter.
(III) John, son of Edward Cogswell, was born in 1592, in Westbury Leigh, county Wilts, England. At the age of twenty-three he married the daughter of the parish vicar, succeeded to his father's business and settled down in the old homestead. He was a man- ufacturer of woolen fabrics, and his "mylls" gained a favorable reputation, lasting to the present day. In 1635 he sold his mills and with his wife and nine children immigrated to America. They took passage in that ill-fated ship the "Angel Gabriel," which was wrecked on the coast of Maine. They escaped with little else but their lives, and spent the first night, August 15, 1635, in a tent on the beach. They finally settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where he was granted land and built a house. The grant of three hundred acres was in a part of Ipswich which became the town of Essex. The house stood on the site occupied by the residence of the late Hon. Charles Kim- ball. The land has been in the Cogswell family for eight generations. John Cogswell was the third original settler in Essex, and his name appears often in the Ipswich records. He was admitted a freeman, March 3. 1636. He deeded land to his son William in November, 1651, "on the south east side of the Chebacco river." On the same date he gave a dwelling house to his son-in-law, Cornelius Waldo. His estate was inventoried, December 27, 1669, by
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John Burnham and William Haskale at one hundred and fifteen pounds, nineteen shil- lings. He died November 29, 1669, at the age of seventy-seven. He married, Septem- ber 10, 1615, Elizabeth Thompson, who died June 2, 1676, daughter of Rev. William and Phillis Thompson. Children : Daughter, mar- ried and resided in London; Mary, William, mentioned below; John, baptized July 25, 1622; Hannah, Abigail, Edward, born 1629; Sarah, Elizabeth.
(IV) William, son of John Cogswell, was born in Westbury, England, in 1619, died De- cember 15, 1700. He came with his parents to America when he was about sixteen years old, and at about thirty he was married. He settled on the home place and became one of the most influential men in Ipswich. He was largely instrumental in the establishment of the first church at Chebacco parish. He gave the land on which to erect a meeting house, which was dedicated in April, 1680. He enter- tained at his house the ecclesiastical council that met August 12, 1683, to organize the church and install the first pastor, Mr. John Wise. He was often on the board of select- men and moderator of parish meetings. In 1693 the parish committee on the assignments of seats in the meeting house gave Mrs. Cogs- well a seat with the minister's wife, which was significant of the respect in which she was held. In his will, dated August 5, 1696, he states that his wife was deceased, and men- tions his four sons and four daughters. The will was proved December 19, 1700. He mar- ried, in 1649, Susanna, daughter of Adam and Anne (Hutchinson) Hawks; she was born in Charlestown in 1633, died before 1696. Chil- dren : Elizabeth, born 1650; Hester, Susanna, twin, January 5, 1657; Ann, twin of Susanna ; William, December 4, 1659; Jonathan, April 26, 1661 ; Edmund, died May 15, 1680; John, mentioned below; Adam, born January 12, 1667; Sarah, February 3, 1668.
(V) Lieutenant John (2) Cogswell, son of William Cogswell, was born at Chebacco, Ips- wich, Massachusetts, May 12, 1666, died in 1710. He was called to fill various public offices in the town, and was a member of the church. He married Hannah, born July 4, 1673, daughter of Deacon William Jr. and Hannah (Dane) Goodhue, of Chebacco. Chil- dren : Hannah, born March 27, 1693; William, September 24, 1694; Susanna, March 10, 1696; John, December 2, 1699; Francis, March 26,
1701; Elizabeth, Margaret, Nathaniel, men- tioned below; Bethia, Joseph, died in 1718. John Cogswell died at the age of forty-five, without a will, leaving property appraised at eight hundred and eighty-nine pounds. His widow was appointed administratrix, June 5, 1710. She married (second) Lieutenant Thomas Perley, of Boxford, Massachusetts, a widower with five children, and had three children by her second marriage. She died December 25, 1742.
(VI) Nathaniel, son of Lieutenant John (2) Cogswell, was born January 19, 1707, in Chebacco parish, Ipswich, died March 23, 1783. He was three years old when his father died. He went from home in boyhood and entered a store in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He became a leading merchant and a promi- nent citizen of that town. In person he was of medium stature, portly, of dark complex- ion, with black hair and eyes. He joined the church, June 1, 1746, and was a devoted mem- ber. After a successful business life he retired in 1766 and settled on a farm in Atkinson, New Hampshire. Here he gave the land and contributed freely toward the first meeting house, erected in 1768-69. Before this public worship had been conducted at Mr. Cogswell's house. During the revolution he loaned large sums of money to provide equipments for the soldiers, which by reason of the depreciated currency proved almost a total loss. He gave eight sons to the army, who served with dis- tinction, and fulfilled an aggregate term of serv- ice of more than thirty-eight years. It is said that these eight sons were of such height that in the aggregate they measured about fifty feet. They all survived the war, and became promi- nent in professional and civil life. Mr. Cogs- well owned a negro boy, Cæsar, which he sold to Samuel Phillips, of Andover, trader. He married, January 31. 1740, Judith, born Feb- ruary 3, 1724, died May 7, 1810, daughter of Joseph and Hannah (Peaslee) Badger, of Haverhill. Children : Nathaniel, born May 14, 1741, died November 9, 1754: Jeremiah, July 12, 1743; Joseph, November 23, 1744, died December 1, 1746; Thomas, August 4, 1746; Joseph, December 31, 1747, died July 22, 1752 ; Hannah, July 13, 1749; Judith, March 23, 1750, died August 21, 1753; Amos, October 2, 1752; Judith, March 24, 1754, died Septem- ber 2, 1754; Nathaniel Peaslee, July 10, 1755; Joseph, August 1, 1756, died August 27, 1756; Moses, mentioned below ; Daughter, January 9,
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1759, died January 9, 1759; William, July II, 1760; John, December 4, 1761 ; Ebenezer, Feb- ruary 14, 1763; Joseph, April 16, .1764; Francis, September 27, 1765, died April 28, 1773; Daughter, October 18, 1767, died Oc- tober 18, 1767.
(VII) Lieutenant Moses Cogswell, son of Nathaniel Cogswell, was born September 22, 1757, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, died Sep- tember 16, 1811. During nearly the whole period of the revolution he was in naval ser- vice, holding the commission of lieutenant and serving as a privateersman. He was once captured and held prisoner at Halifax, Nova Scotia, at the time of the famous Dark Day in New England. The sun shone brightly all day in Halifax, and the British said of the event, when they heard of it: "It was a divine curse upon the rebels." Lieutenant Cogswell settled in Canterbury, New Hampshire, after the war, and kept a tavern, and carried on a farm. He was justice of the peace. He died very suddenly of paralysis, and his wife died exactly three years after, September 16, 1814. He married, June 13, 1781, Hannah, daughter of Rev. and Hon. Abiel and Hannah (Badger) Foster, and granddaughter of General Joseph and Hannah ( Pearson) Badger. She was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire. Rev. and Hon. Abiel Foster, son of Captain Asa Foster, was of Andover, Massachusetts ; he graduated from Harvard College in 1756; was a member of the continental congress in 1783-84, and for several terms after the adoption of the con- stitution, 1795-1803 ; was the only New Hamp- shire delegate to the continental congress who witnessed the spectacle of the commander-in- chief of the American army delivering his sword to the American congress ; died in 1806, aged seventy-one. Children of Mr. and Mrs. Cogswell: Amos, born July 28, 1782; Nathan- iel, June 3, 1784; Abiel, May 20, 1786, died February 1I, 1787; Joseph Badger, born Jan- uary 6, 1788; Hannah Badger, February 19, 1790; Thomas, February 15, 1792; Abiel, Feb- ruary 10, 1794; Jeremiah, of whom further; a daughter, April 1, 1799, died same year ; a daughter, February 1, 1800, died in infancy ; Nancy, June 24, 1801 ; William, September 3, 1804, died April 28, 1826; Betsey, twin with William, died December 27, 1815; Moses Pear- son, born January 7, 1809.
(VIII) Jeremiah, son of Lieutenant Moses Cogswell, was born in Canterbury, New Hampshire, October 9, 1795, died at Brock-
port, New York, November 26, 1837, where he had located in middle life. As a contractor he was interested in building the Erie canal, and subsequently he was for some years a for- warding merchant and dealer in flour and grain. He married, March 27, 1826, at Attica, New York, Tryphena, born in New London, New Hampshire, August 4, 1799, daughter of Henry B. and Martha (Burpee) Achilles. She married (second), in 1850, William Dewey, who died October 21, 1876, and she died in Rochester, New York, August 4, 1887. Jere- miah and Tryphena (Achilles) Cogswell lived in Brockport, New York; after the death of the former named, his widow (then Mrs. Dewey), in her eighty-third year, wrote of the home of her first marriage: "Our home was one of the happiest in the village, my husband one of the best, a very indulgent father, a man of firm integrity, one who was looked up to for advice by all his associates. All places of busi- ness in the town were closed during the hour of his funeral services." Their children : Wil- liam, born November 22, 1828, died Novem- ber 22, 1829; Martha, March 24, 1830, died April 17, 1832; William Henry, May 18, 1832, died October 21, 1847; Moses Pearson, of whom further.
(IX) Moses Pearson, son of Jeremiah Cogswell, was born July 31, 1834, in Brock- port, New York. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of Attica, where his mother went to live after his father's death. From youth he was industrious, energetic and enterprising. In 1855 he established a general hardware store in Beloit, Wisconsin, and he was active in public affairs there. In 1864 he returned to Attica, New York, and entered the employ of the Erie Railroad Company. Three or four years later he went to Kansas and became con- nected with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, during the period of its construction, and held various offices of responsibility and trust in that company until his death in the awful Ashtabula disaster on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad, December 29, 1876. In politics he was an earnest and in- fluential Democrat of the old Jefferson and Jackson type.
He married, at Beloit, Wisconsin, October 14, 1858, Mary Janet, born in Buffalo, New York, October 14, 1839, died February IO, 1909, daughter of John C. and Jane (Grey) Burr; her father was of the Burr family of Connecticut, and through her mother she was
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descended from the historical English family of Grey. Children: 1. Helen Burr, born at Brockport, New York, December 17, 1860; married Vernon E. Peckham (see Peckham VIII). 2. Harry Achilles, born June 30, 1870, died February 14, 1873. 3. Cora M., born February 17, 1874; married William L. Phil- lips, M. D., of Buffalo, March 30, 1898; chil- dren : Elizabeth Cogswell, born January 8, 1902; Helen Cogswell, March 12, 1904.
According to Lower ( Patronymica WADE Brittanica) Wade is one of the names that is derived from the face of nature, "Brittaine's Remaines" (1614) speaks of it as a baptismal name in use in England at the Conquest (1066). The same author gives the derivation of the word, from Anglo-Saxon "Wad," a meadow or ford. The pages of Eng- lish and American history are filled with the records of their useful lives and deeds of valor. The name was early transplanted to New Eng- land.
(I) Nicholas Wade, born in 1618, in the county of Norfolk, parish of Denver, near Downham market, England, son of a wealthy English yeoman and relative of Sir William, son of Armigal Wade, had brothers, Jonathan, Nathaniel and Richard. These all settled in Massachusetts. Nicholas Wade came to America in 1632, and settled in Scituate, where the original Wade farm is now held by Jelson Wade, a descendant of the English generation. He took the oath of fidelity and allegiance in 1638. In 1657 he was licensed to keep an inn. He was a soldier and served in the Indian wars of that period. He died in 1683. He married Elizabeth Ensign. Children: John, Thomas, of further mention; Nathaniel, Elizabeth, married Marmaduke Stevens ; Joseph, killed in the Rehoboth battle in King Philip's war; Hannah, Nicholas, born 1690, married Ann, daughter of James Latham ; Jacob.
(II) Thomas, son of Nicholas and Eliza- beth (Ensign) Wade, was born in Scituate about 1650. He settled in Bridgewater,, Mas- sachusetts, in 1680, where some of his chil- dren were born. He married, in 1672, Eliza- beth Curtis. Children: Jacob, born 1673; Jo- seph, 1675; Sarah, 1678; Thomas, 1680; Han- nah, 1682; Ichabod, 1685; Moses, 1689; Deb- orah, 1691 ; Rachel, 1692.
(III) Ichabod, son of Thomas and Eliza- beth (Curtis) Wade, was born in 1685. In his will dated 1747 he mentions sons: Ichabod,
Amos, Ebenezer, and daughters: Malison, Abial and Molly.
(IV) Ichabod (2), son of Ichabod (1) Wade, was a soldier of the revolutionary war and later an officer of the United States reg- ular army, connected with the paymaster's de- partment. He marched with Captain Samuel Bliss's company of minute-men on the Lexing- ton alarm, April 19, 1775; service eight days ; was captain of a light infantry company of Colonel William's regiment, service twenty- three days; company stationed at Tiverton, October 7, 1777; roll sworn to at Rehoboth; also captain in Colonel George William's reg- iment; Brigadier-General Palmer's brigade. Return of officers who marched on a "late" expedition to Rhode Island, dated German- town, December II, 1777 (see Massachusetts "Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolution"). He was married by Elder Robert Rogerson, No- vember 14, 1763, to Mary Peck, of Rehoboth. At that time he is called "of Taunton." Chil- dren : Silvanus, born September 11, 1764; Lewis, of further mention; Alpheas, July 26, 1768; Ichabod, July 27, 1770; Elbannon, Feb- ruary 27, 1772; Achsah, February 27, 1774; Ebenezer, February 10, 1776; Sarah Peck, January 10, 1778; John Leland, April 25, 1780; Mary, March 5, 1782; Comfort, April 7, 1786; Sarah (Sally), July 28, 1788.
(V) Lewis, son of Ichabod (2) and Mary (Peck) Wade, was born September 11, 1766, died at Seekonk, Massachusetts, 1855, in his eighty-ninth year. He married, at Swansea, Massachusetts, June 16, 1786, Rebecca Peck, died September, 1842, in her seventy-eighth year, daughter of a revolutionary soldier. Among their children was George W., of fur- ther mention.
(VI) George W., son of Lewis and Re- becca (Peck) Wade, was born in 1803, died in 1868. He was the first of this branch of the Wade family to settle in New York state, com- ing prior to 1830, after a residence in Penn- sylvania. He married Betsey Eliza Bowen, of Tioga county, New York. Among their children was George Lyman, of further men- tion.
(VII) George Lyman, son of George W. and Betsey Eliza (Bowen) Wade, was born in Pennsylvania, 1823, died at Jamestown, Chautauqua county, New York. He came to Ellington in early life after a previous resi- dence at Charlotte, same county. He was a farmer and a mechanic, carrying on both
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occupations in Ellington. He was a zealous worker and member of the Methodist Epis- copal church, and a Republican in politics. He married Jane Elizabeth Pierson, born in Hull, England, in 1822. In 1826 her parents emi- grated to the United States, settling at Char- lotte, Chautauqua county, New York. Chil- dren : William, George, died young ; Jennie E., married Henry Erwin, of Charlotte, New York; Charles E., Arthur C., of further men- tion; Alfred E., died in California in 1904; John L., residing now in Ellicott, New York; Lillian A., married Bert Willsie.
(VIII) Arthur C., fourth son of George Lyman and Jane Elizabeth (Pierson) Wade, was born in the town of Charlotte, Chautauqua county, New York, December 12, 1852. He attended the district school, and after an acci- dent that caused the loss of his left arm he decided upon a professional career. He at- tended Ellington Academy and Chamberlain Institute at Randolph. He then entered the law office of Theodore A. Case, of Ellington, where he read law for eighteen months. In 1876 he entered Albany Law School, whence he was graduated LL. B., class of 1877, and admitted to the bar the same year. In June, 1877, he formed a partnership with his old preceptor, Mr. Case, and with him practiced law in Ellington for five years. These were five valuable years to the young practitioner associated as he was with an old and skillful lawyer. The ability shown by Mr. Wade in the conduct of his cases attracted the atten- tion of the eminent ex-Judge Orsell Cook, who offered the young man a partnership in his legal business at Jamestown. The offer was accepted and in January, 1883, the firm of Case & Wade dissolved. The same year the firm of Cook, Fisher & Wade was formed with offices in Jamestown. They continued a suc- cessful legal practice until the death of Judge Cook, July 1, 1895. The firm continued as Fisher, Wade & Stevenson until January I, 1897, when Mr. Fisher withdrew. Since then the firm has continued as Wade & Stevenson, until April 1, 1910. During these years Mr. Wade advanced to the front ranks of his pro- fession, having won a series of notable vic- tories in criminal defense where the odds were heavily against him. Learned in the law and skillful in its application, keen, alert, pro- found and always thoroughly prepared, in- tensely earnest, no opposing lawyer ever tried
conclusions with him without being impressed with his power. A notable case which he suc- cessfully defended after conviction, sentence and affirmation by the court of appeals, was the State against Howard C. Benham, of Batavia, charged with murder. Mr. Wade secured a new trial and a verdict of "Not Guilty." Aside from the law Mr. Wade has aided largely in the establishment and development of the man- ufacturing industries of Jamestown, its banks and public utilities. He is president of the Art Metal Construction Company, the Jamestown Metal Furniture Company, the Ahlstrom Piano Company, D. H. Grandin Milling Com- pany, Chautauqua Towel Mills, Home Tele- phone Company; vice-president of the Post Publishing Company, director of the First National Bank of Jamestown, of the Allen Square Company and various other corpora- tions.
His clear business mind added to his long legal training makes him a most valuable offi- cial head of these enterprises, many of which are leaders of their kind and highly success- ful in a financial way. For many years he has dealt heavily in real estate and has been con- nected with several enterprises for improve- ment and development. His practical knowl- edge of street railway management was so recognized that he was employed by the leg- islative committee that investigated the sur- face and elevated railways of the state in 1895. His conduct of the investigation won him high commendation from lawyers of na- tional as well as state prominence. In politi- cal life he has always taken a leading part. His unusual oratorical ability has been freely used in many campaigns and has been a pleas- ing as well as a leading feature of many con- ventions. At the Saratoga convention, Sep- tember 18, 1904, he was selected to place Lieutenant-Governor Higgins in nomination for the office of governor. His speech on that occasion will long be remembered by his hear- ers, while his splendid campaigning in the weeks that followed contributed largely to the unexpected result, the election of Governor Higgins being unlooked for by the general public. In 1891 he was the Republican candi- date for state comptroller, but went down to defeat with the entire state ticket, the Demo- crats electing their entire ticket that year. In 1903 he was elected to the state assembly and re-elected in 1904 and in 1905, serving on the
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following committees : Judiciary, revision and taxation and retrenchment. In local office he was at one time city attorney of Jamestown.
He married, August 22, 1877, Mary Frances, daughter of Carey and Diantha (Gould) Briggs, of Ellington, New York.
There is a tradition in this fam-
PIERCE ily that the first settler was named John Pearce, and that he came about 1660, from Wales, "Pearce" be- ing the Welsh spelling of the name. The fol- lowing record is found in the town records of Portsmouth, Rhode Island: "John Pearce, admitted this day, a free inhabitant of this town." He may have been one of the Baptist congregation of John Myles, of Swansea, Wales, who was persecuted from Wales to Rehoboth, 1666-7.
(I) John Pearce, born 1632, probably died 1692; married Mary died 1711. He was a mason by trade. In his will made in 1689 he styles himself "John Perce, Senior, of Prudence Island." He left three children- John, Daniel and Mary.
(II) Daniel Pearce, born about 1662, died after 1744. He married (first) (second), December 13, 1733, Elizabeth Tucker, of Prudence Island. Few family rec- ords can be found of him, and the names of his children given have been recovered from deeds and other legal papers. The records of his public service are quite full and cover the period from 1694 to 1731. He was made freeman of the town of Portsmouth, June 6, 1692. He resided in Portsmouth up to 1720, and for two years following was more or less at Kingston, but took up a permanent resi- dence in North Kingston the summer of 1723. From 1701 to 1730 he was deputy to the gen- eral assembly of Rhode Island, and from 1707 to 1720 was a justice of the peace, and in 1724 was overseer of the poor of his town. Children by first wife: Daniel Jr., born prob- ably 1687; Margaret, John and Mary. By second wife: Benoni, Nathan and William.
(III) Daniel Pearce Jr., born probably 1689, died probably 1758. He married, Octo- ber, 1705, Patience Hill. He was made a freeman of the town of Portsmouth, June 6, 1715, and resided on Prudence Island. In 1724 he was made a freeman of the colony from Portsmouth. After 1737 he seems to have lived in North Kingston. He owned a
large tract of land. He was deputy to the general assembly for Portsmouth in 1722-23. Children : Sarah, born, March 6, 1710; Na- thaniel, January 20, 1715; Daniel, October 22, 1717; Jonathan, April 6, 1719; Deliverance, September 20, 1720; Thomas, May 31, 1723; William, May 8, 1725; Patience, November 21, 1728; Ebenezer, February 17, 1731, married Elizabeth
(IV) Ebenezer Pearce, born February 17, 1731, died after 1803. He married Elizabeth (other name not known). He is supposed to have been a farmer by occupation. The early part of his life was spent on Prudence Island. Some time between 1774 and 1790 he moved to the town of Hancock, Berkshire county, Massachusetts. In 1801 he purchased a small tract of land in the same town, which he sold in the latter part of 1803, and it is thought he came to Fabius, Onondaga county, New York, with his sons, and probably lived with one of them until his death. Children: Catherine, Phoebe, Daniel and Caleb, and Benjamin. Daniel and Caleb were twins, and were born January 29, 1768. He spelled his name Pearce and Peirce.
(V) Caleb Pearce (Pierce), son of Eben- ezer Pearce, was born January 29, 1768, in Rhode Island, died May 23, 1838. The family lived in Rhode Island for a time, later at Han- cock, Massachusetts. In the early part of 1804 they moved to the town of Fabius, Onon- daga county, New York. Daniel and Caleb, twin brothers, came to Fabius, but finding the climate malarial, Caleb moved in 1834 to the town of Rice (now Ischua), Cattaraugus county. He married Zeviah Chase, who died November 30, 1813. Children: Luke, born June 23, 1787, married Diantha Merrill; Mary, born March 25, 1789, married John Sweet; Patience, born July 20, 1791, married Levi Swan; Anna, born August 23, 1792, mar- ried Joseph Symonds; Lyartus B., of further mention ; Encum Sanford, born November 21. 1796, married Lavina Barnard ; Henry B., born June 7, 1798; Caleb, born March 12, 1800, unmarried; John, born May 4, 1804, married Mary Sill; Eunice, born September 7, 1508, married Erastus A. Pratt ; Zeviah, born July 9, 1819, married Hiram Sill.
Caleb spelled the name "Pearce" in the land records of the town of Hancock, Massachu- setts. but when he and other members of the family purchased land in Fabius, Onondaga county, they adopted the spelling "Pierce,"
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