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Person Details
 
Last NameCOGGESHALL
First NameJOHN, SR, ESQ
Maiden 
Relation[H/O MARY]
Cemetery NumberNT016
Cemetery NameCOGGESHALL BURIAL GROUND
Birth Day0
Birth Month 
Birth Year1591c
Death Day27
Death MonthNOV
Death Year1647
War 
Gravestone Details
Section 
Lot 
Map00004
Stone Materialslate
Conditiongood
Shapefancy top
Carvingskull with wings
Legibilitygood
Number of Graves on Stone1
Stone Height (inches)24
Stone Width (inches)22
Exists?
Last Seen Date2009
Carver 
Notes/Misc Details
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.]
Transcribed ByGHR;QUAK;AGB;JES;DF;BA