Elizabeth COGAN

Abt 1607 - Aft 1674  (~ 67 years)

• Name	Elizabeth COGAN
  Birth	Abt 1607	Chard, Somerset, England
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 13 Apr 1674
  Notes	(1) McCracken, George F., "Early Cogans English and American," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. 110, pp. 258, 271 (1956): ELIZABETH COGAN, second daughter of Philobert Cogan . . . by wife Anne Marshall, was born in Chard about 1607, and was aged 16 in 1623, then unmarried. She married, first, in England, well before 1630, ? GIBSON, of whom nothing else is known. C. E. Banks ("Planters of the Commonwealth", p. 70) lists among the passengers on the Zouch Phenix, in May 1624, a Christopher Gibson, of Wendover, co. Bucks, with wife Mary, and says they settled in Dorchester, and an Elizabeth Gibson, of St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, who settled in Salem. It is tempting to see here a record of Elizabeth Cogan Gibson, but the date is very early, for in 1624 she was only seventeen, almost two [sic] young for marriage, to say nothing of widowhood. Moreover, the Cogans had no known connection with Cambridge or Salem. It is Dr. Seversmith's belief that Elizabeth probably accompanied the Ludlows to America on the Mary and John. In any case, as Elizabeth Gibson, she was married in Boston, 18 Aug. 1630, by Governor Winthrop and the Rev. John Wilson, to JOHN ENDICOTT, afterwards Governor of Massachusetts Bay, and son of Thomas Endicott, of Chagford, co. Devon, and wife Alice, perhaps Westlake. He died in Boston 15 March 1655. "The Records of Massachusetts Bay", vol. 4, pt. 2, pp. 151, 487 f., show that the widow was granted £60 for five years and then, in 1671, £30 per annum for life. Both are buried in the northwest corner of the Granary Burying Ground - see William Crowninshield Endicott, "Memoir of Samuel Endicott" (1924), pp. 71-4; Laurence Shaw Mayo, "John Endecott, a Biography" (Cambridge, 1936), pp. 56, 284; Charles M. Endicott, "The Endicott Family" (no date); James T. Adams in Dict. Am. Biogr., 6:155-8; Sir Roper Lethbridge, "The Devonshire Ancestry . . . of John Endecott". Children (surname Endicott): 1. JOHN, b. in 1632, d. in 1668 or 15 March 1665/6? 2. ZERUBBABEL, b. in 1635; d. in 1684. (2) Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins — Immigration to New England, 1620-1633, Vol. I, Boston, MA; 1995, pp. 642-643: . . . "_____ Gibson" [WJ 1:35; NEHGR 110:271] [was] born about 1607 [NEHGR 43:310] (but deposed 13 April 1674, aged "about sixty years" [EQC 5:323]), the daughter of Philobert Cogan of Chard, Somersetshire, who bequeathed to "daughter Elizabeth Endecott" in his 10 February 1640/1 will, evidently the widow of _____ GIBSON [NEHGR 43:309-311]. She died after 13 April 1674.
  Person ID	I12136	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	8 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Philobert COGAN
  Mother	Ann MARSHALL
  Family ID	F20455	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	--- GIBSON
  Marriage	Bef 1630
  Family ID	F5545	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Gov. John ENDICOTT, Sr.,   b. Bef 1600   d. 15 Mar 1665, Boston, Suffolk County, MA (Age > 65 years)
  Marriage	17 Aug 1630	Boston, Suffolk County, MA
  Children	1. John ENDICOTT, Jr.,   b. Abt 1632   d. 1667 (Age ~ 35 years)   2. Dr. Zerubbabel ENDICOTT, Sr.,   b. Abt 1635   d. 1684 (Age ~ 49 years)
  Family ID	F5544	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024