_Thomas COGAN _____
_Philibert COGAN _|
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| _Thomas MARSHALL __
|_Ann MARSHALL ____|
|_Mary COTTON ______
MARY COGAN, born in 1604, married Roger Ludlow of Dinton, there baptized
March 7, 1590. He was matriculated at Balliol College, Oxford, June 16,
1610, and at the age of forty was chose, in London, an Assistant of the
colony of Massachusetts Bay, Feb. 10, 1630. In that capacity he sailed
from Plymouth, England, March 20, that year in the ship "Mary and John"
and arrived on these shores May following. He attended the first sitting
of the Court at Charlestown, in August, and retained the office four years
when he was chose Deputy-Governor in 1634. He removed to Windsor, Conn.,
in 1635, where he that hear became the first Deputy-Governor of the colony,
and thereafter served in the same high office in 1642 and 1648. He served
in the Pequot War of 1637, and was thus attracted by the lands west of the
Connecticut river. In 1639 he removed to Unquowa, which was named Fairfield
in 1645, and there purchased from the Indians a considerable tract of land
east of the Norwalk river. He was a Commissioner of the United Colonies
in 1651, 1652, and 1653, and has been called the "Father of Connecticut
Jurisprudence," having been the principal framer of the Constitution of
1639. The statement has been accepted as fact that he removed to Virginia
about the year 1654, but the following from the pen of the late Dr. Charles
J. Hoadley of Hartford, seems to indicate otherwise:
The assertion to that effect "was doubtless made on the authority of Dr.
Trumball (History of Connecticut., 1, 218), and he based it on what he found
in New Haven records. Ludlow had hired a vessel to transport himself and
his family to Virginia, probably intending to take shipping there for
England, for in a MS. Roger Wolcott expressly says that Ludlow returned to
England, and a deposition of John Webster, dated DEc. 18, 1660, in the
Connecticut archives, speaks of 'the time that Mr. Ludlow went for old
England.' If any one will examine the printed New Haven Colonial Records,
II, 69-74, he will find nothing to show that Mr. Ludlow went to Virginia,
but rather the contrary; for Manning, the captain of the vessel Ludlow
had hired, was arrested for illicit trading with the Dutch, and upon trial,
being found guilty, in spite of Ludlow's protests, was declared by the court
to be a lawful prize, and ordered it to be sold 'by an inch of candell, he
that offers most to have her'."
Governor Ludlow's brother George, of the county and parish of York, Virginia,
Esq., a member of the Council of 1642-55, died in the latter year leaving a
will which mentioned children of the governor's, and, so far as known, is the
only record of them. From it the are here enumerated:
1) Jonathan Ludlow of Dublin, Ireland
2) Joseph
3) Roger
4) Anne
5) Mary
6) Sarah, "distinguished for her literaray acquirements and domestic
virtues", married Rev. Nathaniel Brewster of Brookhaven, Long Island."
_Samuel H. MCDOWELL _
_Mark MCDOWELL ________|
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|--Mary Ann MCDOWELL
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| _George PUTERBAUGH __
|_Elizabeth PUTERBAUGH _|
|_Mary Polly WOLF ____
_Alexander MCDOWELL _
_George G. MCDOWELL _|
| |_Mary GERMAN ________
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|--Samantha A. MCDOWELL
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| _James WEATHERHEAD __
|_Mary WEATHERHEAD ___|
|_Margaret _____ _____
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_David STEELE _|
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