Abigail Clarke

Immigration

She sailed with her parents and 7 siblings on 4 June 1635 from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England on the Angel Gabriel. It encountered a terrible storm that wrecked the ship off the coast of Pemaquid in Maine. Some passengers were killed. John left his family there in a tent he had brought and went to Boston, Massachusetts. He arranged to have his wife, 3 sons and 5 daughters transported around the last of August to Ipswich, Massachusetts where they settled in a part of the area known as Chebacco Parish.

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Abigail (Cogswell) Clarke (bef. 1627 - aft. 1668)

Abigail Clarke formerly Cogswell

Born before 1627 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England

ANCESTORS

Daughter of John Cogswell and Elizabeth (Thompson) Cogswell

Sister of

Elizabeth (Cogswell) Masterson, Mary (Cogswell) Armitage, William Cogswell, John Cogswell Jr.,

Phyllis (Cogswell) Broadhurst, Hannah (Cogswell) Waldo, Esther Cogswell, Edward Cogswell,

Alice Cogswell, Ruth Cogswell and Sarah (Cogswell) Tuttle

Wife of Thomas Clarke Jr. — married [date unknown] [location unknown]

DESCENDANTS

Mother of Thomas Clarke III and Elizabeth (Clarke) Lord

Died after 1668 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts

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The Puritan Great Migration. Abigail (Cogswell) Clarke migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: PGM Contents

[hide] 1 Biography 1.1 Birth 1.2 Immigration 1.3 Marriage 1.3.1 Children of the Clarke-Cogswell Marriage 1.4 Death 2 Sources 2.1 Footnotes Biography

Birth

Abigail Cogswell was born before her baptism in 1627 in Westbury Leigh, Wiltshire, England to John Cogswell and Elizabeth Thompson. Anderson gives her a birthdate of 1641 which would mean that she was born in Massachusetts and nothing else gives that information.

Immigration

She sailed with her parents and 7 siblings on 4 June 1635 from Bristol, Gloucestershire, England on the Angel Gabriel. It encountered a terrible storm that wrecked the ship off the coast of Pemaquid in Maine. Some passengers were killed. John left his family there in a tent he had brought and went to Boston, Massachusetts. He arranged to have his wife, 3 sons and 5 daughters transported around the last of August to Ipswich, Massachusetts where they settled in a part of the area known as Chebacco Parish.

Marriage

She married Thomas Clarke Jr. (1638-1682) c. 1664. He was a tailor. They resided in Ipswich, Massachusetts.

Children of the Clarke-Cogswell Marriage

Thomas Clarke III born 7 July 1664 in Massachusetts.

John Clark was born on 13 November 1666 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Clarke born about 1668.

Death

Abigail died in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts on 2 April 1728.

Sources

U.S. New England Marriages Prior to 1700 for Abigail Cogswell and Thomas Clark gives marriage 1664 and death 1728. Massachusetts Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 for Ipswich, Massachusetts. Church Records (handwritten) for Abigail Clark, an ancient wid. departed this life April 2, 1728. Jameson, Ephraim Orcutt. The Cogswells in America, Boston: A. Mudge & Sons, 1884, x-xv for parents of John Cogswell and history before immigration of the family to the new world. John the immigrant pages 1-7. Family follows. The full text is available, with Abigail on page 18, and found [here].

Norton, James E.b.. Norton-Lathrop-Tolles-Doty American ancestry of Ralph Tolles Norton, James Edward Norton, Arden Lathrop Norton, Frank Porter Norton; their children; & the Wright-Briggs-Cogswell-Dudley American ancestry of Ellen Cogswell-Wright-Norton & Frances Cogswell-Wright-Norton. Warsaw, NY: Unknown, 1935. Page 146-147. Cogswell Family Association web site www.cogswell.org Cogswell, Donald James. Descendants of John Cogswell. Unknown, Author, 1998. Anderson, Robert Charles. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. Vol. 2, C-F, record for John Cogswell, page 139.